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 s

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.