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Interesting! Do you think this risks diluting your brand? If it's less "Tip A Dev you like", and more "Pay some guy", it falls into a much more generic payment

by e1ven 14y ago

Interesting! Do you think this risks diluting your brand? If it's less "Tip A Dev you like", and more "Pay some guy", it falls into a much more generic payments category..?

sk3tch 14y ago
Indeed, and what are you going to do with the name going forward given that 'git' means something completely different to the non-technical minded?
- whit537 14y ago
  We had a big go-round on the name a while back: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138 https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138 We decided (in part) that "gittip" doesn't mean anything at all to non-geeks. "All names are stupid until you become rich and famous with it." http://barry.warsaw.us/software/laws.html http://barry.warsaw.us/software/laws.html We'll reopen the name discussion when either GitHub or Oprah complains.
  - chimeracoder 14y ago
    Why would Github complain? They very much do not have a monopoly on the word "git"!
    - whit537 14y ago
      I bet they'd be disappointed if Oprah confused the two. :^)
      - timothyfcook 14y ago
        Let's hope she does some day.
- mherdeg 14y ago
  Just for example — to steal shamelessly from Reddit — you could call this product "Twitter gold". "Give Twitter gold to this user".
whit537 14y ago
The long-term vision is for Gittip to be general-purpose. Of course, with only a few hundred active users, Gittip has barely scratched the surface of the open source world, and it's possible that now wasn't the ideal time to cast the net wider. I committed Gittip to Twitter support when I threw together a half-baked implementation ahead of the XOXO festival a few months ago. Then I got side-tracked by fraud and other things and just now was able to really land this. For better or for worse, it's there now. The next big feature is non-U.S. payouts. That's becoming a critical problem, because it means that Gittip is stuck holding money that belongs to other people. My goal is to solve that in the coming months, and then we'll be in a much better position to aggressively pursue growth. Where to focus those efforts in terms of communities will be part of the discussion.
jareau 14y ago
I still think the brand around "tipping" can be preserved. I'd love to be able to use gittip to pay the guy who sings and plays guitar at my subway station every morning. But yes, twitter integration moves this away from devs only.

by e1ven 14y ago

Interesting! Do you think this risks diluting your brand? If it's less "Tip A Dev you like", and more "Pay some guy", it falls into a much more generic payments category..?

sk3tch 14y ago

Indeed, and what are you going to do with the name going forward given that 'git' means something completely different to the non-technical minded?

whit537 14y ago
We had a big go-round on the name a while back: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138 https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138 We decided (in part) that "gittip" doesn't mean anything at all to non-geeks. "All names are stupid until you become rich and famous with it." http://barry.warsaw.us/software/laws.html http://barry.warsaw.us/software/laws.html We'll reopen the name discussion when either GitHub or Oprah complains.
- chimeracoder 14y ago
  Why would Github complain? They very much do not have a monopoly on the word "git"!
  - whit537 14y ago
    I bet they'd be disappointed if Oprah confused the two. :^)
    - timothyfcook 14y ago
      Let's hope she does some day.
mherdeg 14y ago
Just for example — to steal shamelessly from Reddit — you could call this product "Twitter gold". "Give Twitter gold to this user".

whit537 14y ago

The long-term vision is for Gittip to be general-purpose. Of course, with only a few hundred active users, Gittip has barely scratched the surface of the open source world, and it's possible that now wasn't the ideal time to cast the net wider. I committed Gittip to Twitter support when I threw together a half-baked implementation ahead of the XOXO festival a few months ago. Then I got side-tracked by fraud and other things and just now was able to really land this. For better or for worse, it's there now. The next big feature is non-U.S. payouts. That's becoming a critical problem, because it means that Gittip is stuck holding money that belongs to other people. My goal is to solve that in the coming months, and then we'll be in a much better position to aggressively pursue growth. Where to focus those efforts in terms of communities will be part of the discussion.

jareau 14y ago

I still think the brand around "tipping" can be preserved. I'd love to be able to use gittip to pay the guy who sings and plays guitar at my subway station every morning. But yes, twitter integration moves this away from devs only.