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Help Tipjoy (YC W08) change non profit fundraising
- fallentimes 18y agoThis is going to be an awesome experiment - count me in.
- LukeG 18y agosweet, sweet idea. I'm with you.
- ivankirigin 18y agoWe're really excited about this. If you can really raise tens of thousands of dollars like this, it could really change how non-profits operate. The payments are public and broadcast on Twitter, which is also really cool.
- bprater 18y agoIs there a way to do this anonymously?
- ivankirigin 18y agoYou can give on tipjoy anonymously. Give the the url twitter.com/wellwishes
- Eliezer 18y agoI can't see this site.
- ivankirigin 18y agoYou mean the page doesn't load?
- Eliezer 18y agoWell, it loads now. Previously I was getting a DNS error (all other tested sites working fine).
- halo 18y agoLaudable goal and all, but isn't "Change non-profit fundraising" a little overdramatic?
- ivankirigin 18y agoNot so much. Thousands giving <$10 on a public broadcasting platform like twitter is very different than, say, large corporations giving many, many thousands. The latter is pretty common, and about to tank with this economy. Most people could part with a few bucks without a problem. This kind of tool will help direct that. Besides, I wanted people to click on the link :-P
- halo 18y agoBut thousands already give <$10 to good causes on hugely popular sites like Justgiving or Chipin.
- ivankirigin 18y agoThere really isn't an established micropayments player, and there isn't really an established social giving engine. Both are innovations in Tipjoy.
- ivankirigin 18y agoOhh yeah, you can also make the donation from SMS if you have twitter hooked up. That's kind of a big deal. Think of a rally.
- aneesh 18y agoI hadn't heard of either of those sites. To be honest, I didn't know of an efficient way to give <$10 to non-profits without half of it going to overhead costs. This makes it super easy for me to give small amounts, with the added social features. Most non-profits I know that raise <$10 amounts from lots of people do it in person with cash. If it works, this could give them more options. So for me, it could actually change non-profit fundraising.
- pasbesoin 18y agoTotally off the top of my head, and without familiarity with TipJoy: "Capture the Moment" My contribution, if any, might be a catch phrase for the idea, whether with regard to a non-profit activity, journalism, or something else. "Capture the moment". We all know that moment, when we are particularly moved. It doesn't last, at least not in intensity. Facilitating a "positive" outcome seems likes a potential business. My impression is with TipJoy, one can make a small contribution immediately, eliminating the hesitation around picking which worthy causes to contribute to (at the $20, $50, $100, whatever "level"). Also that one can maintain control of contributions by limiting funding of the account and/or by viewing summarized activity there. Do I have that right? Finally, just having read a story about print news' continued demise, I'll ask: What about a similar contribution model for good reporting? After a particularly good read, I might be willing to toss are dollar or two in the direction of the author/publisher. I know, micropayments are hardly a new idea. This is another market that TipJoy is after? Thanks. I'm intrigued now to learn more about TipJoy.
- bprater 18y agoDean Kamen had a really cool water purifier. I wonder if it'll ever hit the streets. And how it competes with this solution.
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- paul9290 18y agoI stumbled onto that ladies twitter page per EV and thought what a great way of promoting your service!