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Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by sli »

Sephr wrote: post #23

The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.

The service also completely blocks VPN users with a 403. That seems like blocking a pretty good chunk of your target audience to me. I will absolutely be looking elsewhere to support projects I benefit from.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by pabs3 »

hvasilev wrote: post #64

You open source guys need to figure out a way to charge people for the value that you provide. You ran the experiment for a very long time and it looks like this "beggar" model really doesn't seem to be working for the vast majority of your projects. Take money, don't wait for people to give you money for the free value that you provide.

I'm sure plenty of folks would be happy to send invoices to people that want them :)

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by tallanvor »

armini wrote: post #54
ivanvanderbyl wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems reasonable to me. I assume they are using stripe for payments, so that's already 2.9% gone to facilitate you giving money to the project.

Not to mention hosting costs :) Sponsors have a slider that allows them to adjust their tip from 5% to 100% of their monthly donation. We figured minimum 5% would cover our compute & merchant fees but left it to the community to decide what we should get. We thought this was the most aligned approach with open source. Totally open to other ideas and suggestions though.

Under "Why don't the sum of my individual donations total to the amount I've donated?" you list stripe processing fees as #1...

So no, if you're taking a minimum of 5%, then any reasonable person is going to assume that you've already deducted the processing fees, not covering them out of that 5%.

I don't think you're being open and honest here.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by suddenclarity »

coldtea wrote: post #115
robertlagrant wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're trying to solve the problem, not add to it.

If their solution is good, it should also be applicable to them

The difference being that this service has real tangible costs such as card fees for every transaction. That's not really comparable with "it would be nice to be paid for my time" when pushing your code to GitHub. I haven't used the site but it seems reasonable that one solution won't apply to all kinds of projects.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by pabs3 »

tra3 wrote: post #24

How do I convince the management that it's worth spending a fraction of what 1 developer costs to give back to OSS?

Tell them it is risk management; funding OSS ensures that projects you depend on will exist as OSS into the future and hopefully have less bugs and security problems.

For example:

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2022/10/27/open-source-...

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

suddenclarity wrote: post #136
coldtea wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If their solution is good, it should also be applicable to them

The difference being that this service has real tangible costs such as card fees for every transaction. That's not really comparable with "it would be nice to be paid for my time" when pushing your code to GitHub. I haven't used the site but it seems reasonable that one solution won't apply to all kinds of projects.

They could break out the transactions explicitly. That would help reduce the feeling that they're taking more than their share, if they're not doing that.

Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on

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Post by tallanvor »

Sephr wrote: post #23

The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.

Jumping on the top comment, something bothers me about this thread.

I'm seeing comments from two separate accounts, but when you look at their about, they seem to be the same person:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=qwerki https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=armini

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