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There is a micro-payment service called Flattr [1] which does something like this. It was founded by Peter Sunde, one of the pirate bay founders. It's actually

There is a micro-payment service called Flattr [1] which does something like this. It was founded by Peter Sunde, one of the pirate bay founders. It's actually quite successfull in the German web community especially for podcasters. There are German podcasters which earn about 1000 Euro per month via Flattr. [1] https://flattr.com https://flattr.com

calinet6 13y ago
Cool, I was aware of it, I was just thinking about making it automatic. :) Easy extension to flattr though. Excellent, thanks.
gwern 13y ago
Someone actually mentioned Flattr to me today as a way to take donations for my own writings; I've always begged off because I've never wanted to take the time to set it up and clutter my site (more), but now here I see Flattr brought up again... Is there any way of even roughly estimating how much Flattr might bring in?
- ics 13y ago
  > Is there any way of even roughly estimating how much Flattr might bring in? Of course: you try it, write up a massive future post about the results, and voila! But that probably wasn't the answer you wanted. I have no idea how many people are using it, but the idea sounds pretty great and if there's a good crowd to try it out on then HN readers wouldn't be a bad bet. I don't think anyone would mind another small button between PayPal and BTC.
  - gwern 13y ago
    > Of course: you try it, write up a massive future post about the results, and voila! ~-~ > I don't think anyone would mind another small button between PayPal and BTC. Yes, fair enough... I think I may just be making excuses at this point to not try it out.
    - qznc 13y ago
      Just put it in my website footer [0]. Flattr is very flexible. You can use various methods with more or less or no JavaScript. Also you can link stuff like Github, so starring a repo leads to flattr compensation. [0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles.html http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles.html
      - gwern 13y ago
        Yeah, I just added it to http://www.gwern.net/ http://www.gwern.net/ . At first I was all 'o.0 you expect me to load a bunch of JavaScript just to add a button' but then I spotted that there was a purely static version and added it without a problem. We'll see how it goes.

calinet6 13y ago

Cool, I was aware of it, I was just thinking about making it automatic. :) Easy extension to flattr though. Excellent, thanks.

gwern 13y ago

Someone actually mentioned Flattr to me today as a way to take donations for my own writings; I've always begged off because I've never wanted to take the time to set it up and clutter my site (more), but now here I see Flattr brought up again... Is there any way of even roughly estimating how much Flattr might bring in?

ics 13y ago
> Is there any way of even roughly estimating how much Flattr might bring in? Of course: you try it, write up a massive future post about the results, and voila! But that probably wasn't the answer you wanted. I have no idea how many people are using it, but the idea sounds pretty great and if there's a good crowd to try it out on then HN readers wouldn't be a bad bet. I don't think anyone would mind another small button between PayPal and BTC.
- gwern 13y ago
  > Of course: you try it, write up a massive future post about the results, and voila! ~-~ > I don't think anyone would mind another small button between PayPal and BTC. Yes, fair enough... I think I may just be making excuses at this point to not try it out.
  - qznc 13y ago
    Just put it in my website footer [0]. Flattr is very flexible. You can use various methods with more or less or no JavaScript. Also you can link stuff like Github, so starring a repo leads to flattr compensation. [0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles.html http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles.html
    - gwern 13y ago
      Yeah, I just added it to http://www.gwern.net/ http://www.gwern.net/ . At first I was all 'o.0 you expect me to load a bunch of JavaScript just to add a button' but then I spotted that there was a purely static version and added it without a problem. We'll see how it goes.