Gittip Anyone on Twitter

#1

Post by whit537 » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 3:08 PM UTC

Gittip Anyone on Twitter
blog.gittip.com

Re: Gittip Anyone on Twitter

#2

Post by e1ven » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 3:45 PM UTC

Interesting! Do you think this risks diluting your brand?

If it's less "Tip A Dev you like", and more "Pay some guy", it falls into a much more generic payments category..?

Re: Gittip Anyone on Twitter

#3

Post by sk3tch » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 4:06 PM UTC

e1ven wrote: post #2

Interesting! Do you think this risks diluting your brand? If it's less "Tip A Dev you like", and more "Pay some guy", it falls into a much more generic payments category..?

Indeed, and what are you going to do with the name going forward given that 'git' means something completely different to the non-technical minded?

Re: Gittip Anyone on Twitter

#4

Post by whit537 » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 4:12 PM UTC

e1ven wrote: post #2

Interesting! Do you think this risks diluting your brand? If it's less "Tip A Dev you like", and more "Pay some guy", it falls into a much more generic payments category..?

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.

Re: Gittip Anyone on Twitter

#5

Post by whit537 » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 4:18 PM UTC

sk3tch wrote: post #3

e1ven wrote: post #2

Interesting! Do you think this risks diluting your brand? If it's less "Tip A Dev you like", and more "Pay some guy", it falls into a much more generic payments category..?

Indeed, and what are you going to do with the name going forward given that 'git' means something completely different to the non-technical minded?

We had a big go-round on the name a while back:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138

We decided (in part) that "gittip" doesn't mean anything at all to non-geeks. "All names are stupid until you become rich and famous with it." http://barry.warsaw.us/software/laws.html

We'll reopen the name discussion when either GitHub or Oprah complains.

Re: Gittip Anyone on Twitter

#6

Post by chimeracoder » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 4:36 PM UTC

whit537 wrote: post #5

sk3tch wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, and what are you going to do with the name going forward given that 'git' means something completely different to the non-technical minded?

We had a big go-round on the name a while back: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138 We decided (in part) that "gittip" doesn't mean anything at all to non-geeks. "All names are stupid until you become rich and famous with it." http://barry.warsaw.us/software/laws.html We'll reopen the name discussion when either GitHub or Oprah complains.

Why would Github complain? They very much do not have a monopoly on the word "git"!

Re: Gittip Anyone on Twitter

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Post by whit537 » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #6

whit537 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had a big go-round on the name a while back: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138 We decided (in part) that "gittip" doesn't mean anything at all to non-geeks. "All names are stupid until you become rich and famous with it." http://barry.warsaw.us/software/laws.html We'll reopen the name discussion when either GitHub or Oprah complains.

Why would Github complain? They very much do not have a monopoly on the word "git"!

I bet they'd be disappointed if Oprah confused the two. :^)

Re: Gittip Anyone on Twitter

#8

Post by timothyfcook » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:17 PM UTC

whit537 wrote: post #7

chimeracoder wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would Github complain? They very much do not have a monopoly on the word "git"!

I bet they'd be disappointed if Oprah confused the two. :^)

Let's hope she does some day.

Re: Gittip Anyone on Twitter

#9

Post by timothyfcook » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:18 PM UTC

Stoked for this. Now I can support my favorite artists, etc. for $1/month (or more).

Re: Gittip Anyone on Twitter

#10

Post by mherdeg » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 5:34 PM UTC

sk3tch wrote: post #3

e1ven wrote: post #2

Interesting! Do you think this risks diluting your brand? If it's less "Tip A Dev you like", and more "Pay some guy", it falls into a much more generic payments category..?

Indeed, and what are you going to do with the name going forward given that 'git' means something completely different to the non-technical minded?

Just for example — to steal shamelessly from Reddit — you could call this product "Twitter gold".

"Give Twitter gold to this user".