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by whit537 13y ago
"ever a spot" -> "ever spot" <:)
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by whit537 14y ago
And for the record, here is their announcement about it (three days ago): https://twitter.com/jsfiddle/status/322010718566227968
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by whit537 14y ago
Well, there's plenty of one-time options (PayPal, Kickstarter, Pledgie, ...). Gittip is differentiating on the recurring option. The goal with Gittip is for people to make a living on it. Bills are recurring, so funding has to be as well. Y
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by whit537 14y ago
I'm not comfortable sharing specifics without their permission, but I will say that JSFiddle is the second-highest source of Gittip widget page views. I'm especially honored because it's the only thing on their page that's not part of the a
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by whit537 14y ago
Python (Aspen). See also: http://whit537.org/2013/03/why-aspen.html http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1b3t09/why_gittip_us...
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by whit537 14y ago
The $24 cap mitigates this.
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by whit537 14y ago
Yup. That's going to be the biggest challenge. Wanna help solve it? :) https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/449
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by whit537 14y ago
Here's what's bugging me about this: potential conflicts of interest. Kenneth Reitz is almost certainly behind this (he's the "Python Overlord" at Heroku, as well as the author of the Requests HTTP library for Python). Kenneth is a friend o
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by whit537 14y ago
Well, mostly I want to take this opportunity to double-check our assumptions. Does this threaten the autonomy of the communities and individuals that Heroku is giving to? This doesn't give Heroku some undue influence, does it? Does this cre
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by whit537 14y ago
Yeah, not enough volume yet, but we're tracking data over time so we're set up for these kinds of things in the future.
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by whit537 14y ago
That ticket is a really deep rabbit hole. :) The tl;dr is that we're adding a level of indirection: 1. There will be URLs like https://www.gittip.com/for/rails/ 2. The Internet will decide how gifts to "rails" should be allocated. 3. Comp
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by whit537 14y ago
Thanks mahmoudimus! :D
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by whit537 14y ago
Nope. It was a very early design decision that gifts on Gittip are anonymous in the particulars. The idea was to remove the "why did you unfriend me?" awkwardness that only gets compounded if money is involved. We want gifts on Gittip to be
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Heroku is now the top giver on Gittip(gittip.com)
122 points by whit537 14y ago|25 comments
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by whit537 14y ago
Ah, okay. My ignorance, sorry. :)
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by whit537 14y ago
I swear I checked! Should've double-checked, sorry! :)
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by whit537 14y ago
Yeah, what does it mean that it's "via general partner Jeff Jordan"? That makes it sound like it's somehow not an "official" Andreessen Horowitz investment but rather a personal investment from Jeff. Will Balanced end up on http://a16z.com
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by whit537 14y ago
Happy customer here. I'm bootstrapping a start-up and the $100 price point was about right for me: I had a moment or two of doubt in the week or so before the call but I definitely got value out of it, and Len is "a good guy to know." Len w
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Introducing: Balanced Same-Day Payouts(blog.balancedpayments.com)
9 points by whit537 14y ago|0 comments
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by whit537 14y ago
Brandon's a great guy, very proactive and helpful. We didn't have quite enough volume yet (w/ Gittip) to use his services, but I have a positive opinion of him. E.g.: https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/pull/387
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by whit537 14y ago
This makes me incredibly happy. 8^D
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by whit537 14y ago
:D
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by whit537 14y ago
That's pretty much my understanding of it, too. :^)
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by whit537 14y ago
Thanks for reposting. I saw this but wasn't sure if sarcastic or not. That page is one of the one that got ... less attention during the redesign. :-)
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by whit537 14y ago
Ah, sorry. Should be fixed now. Thanks for the heads-up.
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New Design, New Team(blog.gittip.com)
15 points by whit537 14y ago|8 comments
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by whit537 14y ago
D'oh, sorry! Thanks for the heads up! I just created a new "hr" repo in the "zetaweb" org on GitHub (technically it's Zeta Design & Development, LLC that is the open company, and Gittip is the product). Here's the updated application li
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by whit537 14y ago
Gittip - https://www.gittip.com/ - remote We're an open company that's turning the economy inside out. Our product centers on small, weekly, anonymous, cash gifts to people you love and are inspired by. Gittip launched 7 months ago with a
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by whit537 14y ago
Help yourself to the +2. :) You can always workaround it by tipping on Thursday and then changing your tip on Friday.
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by whit537 14y ago
Sustainability is a core design goal for Gittip. I want to be paying my mortgage from Gittip gifts, so it needs to be predictable and consistent. Does this limit growth? Yes. But it makes the growth we do get much more reliable. Gittip grow

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