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I'm really surprised that nobody is doing a kickstarter thing for open source. tiers 0 to n-1: creating product/features tier n: release as open source (commu

I'm really surprised that nobody is doing a kickstarter thing for open source. tiers 0 to n-1: creating product/features tier n: release as open source (community votes for license) on day 1 I mean in all honesty if I saw a link to some awesome fucking shit and I saw that it was $500 away from being open source, I'd probably do it. It would probably happen yearly or less, but honestly there are a lot of developers making big bucks and we all know how much certain tools could make our lives so much easier.

habosa 14y ago
This is one hell of an idea. Is there really nothing out there like this?
- daleharvey 14y ago
  I got pointed to https://www.bountysource.com/ https://www.bountysource.com/ recently
jjb123 14y ago
You can use Crowdtilt for it :) We'd love to help, and if it's for open source - use this promo code, and we'll waive the Crowdtilt fee: ctdevs123
markjenson 14y ago
I actually paid a small amount to get this open source project off the ground. https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/snowball-getting-community-initiatives-in-free-software-rolling https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/snowball-getting-communi...
ScottBurson 14y ago
Shameless plug: https://bountyoss.com/ https://bountyoss.com/ It works differently from Kickstarter; for one thing, it emphasizes maintenance over new development. You really have to have an existing successful project to make use of it... which is probably why no one is using it yet :-(
jmathai 14y ago
I ran a successful Kickstarter 2 years ago[1] for an open source[2] project which we've gone on to get funding for[3]. I've been full time on it the entire time and a co-founder joined me a year ago. [1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-photo-service-for-your-s3-or-dropbox-a http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-phot... [2] https://github.com/photo https://github.com/photo [3] https://trovebox.com https://trovebox.com
zwegner 14y ago
Yet another website doing something similar to what you're describing: http://www.freedomsponsors.org/ http://www.freedomsponsors.org/
stfu 14y ago
I could see this also work for feature requests. Just let people fund bounties for particular features, therefore attracting more developers to more urgent problems.
jcc80 14y ago
This is a bit different - kickstarter style funding for existing open source projects. Developers remain 100% in control and put features up for funding. https://www.catincan.com https://www.catincan.com

habosa 14y ago

This is one hell of an idea. Is there really nothing out there like this?

daleharvey 14y ago
I got pointed to https://www.bountysource.com/ https://www.bountysource.com/ recently

jjb123 14y ago

You can use Crowdtilt for it :) We'd love to help, and if it's for open source - use this promo code, and we'll waive the Crowdtilt fee: ctdevs123

markjenson 14y ago

I actually paid a small amount to get this open source project off the ground. https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/snowball-getting-community-initiatives-in-free-software-rolling https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/snowball-getting-communi...

ScottBurson 14y ago

Shameless plug: https://bountyoss.com/ https://bountyoss.com/ It works differently from Kickstarter; for one thing, it emphasizes maintenance over new development. You really have to have an existing successful project to make use of it... which is probably why no one is using it yet :-(

jmathai 14y ago

I ran a successful Kickstarter 2 years ago[1] for an open source[2] project which we've gone on to get funding for[3]. I've been full time on it the entire time and a co-founder joined me a year ago. [1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-photo-service-for-your-s3-or-dropbox-a http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-phot... [2] https://github.com/photo https://github.com/photo [3] https://trovebox.com https://trovebox.com

zwegner 14y ago

Yet another website doing something similar to what you're describing: http://www.freedomsponsors.org/ http://www.freedomsponsors.org/

stfu 14y ago

I could see this also work for feature requests. Just let people fund bounties for particular features, therefore attracting more developers to more urgent problems.

jcc80 14y ago

This is a bit different - kickstarter style funding for existing open source projects. Developers remain 100% in control and put features up for funding. https://www.catincan.com https://www.catincan.com