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Re: Google One Today

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Post by solox3 »

It won't fly just like this - You can't just ask people to download an app and donate a buck a day. You need an incentive. This will definitely work if the $1 gets the donor an "item of the day" from the play store, which Google can most certainly give out copies for "free".

Re: Google One Today

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Post by molecule »

"One Today is an app that brings together people and nonprofits through the simple act of giving $1."

To be clear: you'd be giving the non-profit $0.98, and your credit-card company $0.02:

http://www.google.com/onetoday/faq.html

"How much of my donation will reach the nonprofit?

"The nonprofit will get all of your donation except the credit card processing fee of 1.9%"

Re: Google One Today

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Post by Sunlis »

solox3 wrote: post #2

It won't fly just like this - You can't just ask people to download an app and donate a buck a day. You need an incentive. This will definitely work if the $1 gets the donor an "item of the day" from the play store, which Google can most certainly give out copies for "free".

That seems quite cynical. Kiva is quite successful, and they offer no incentives at all; you just loan $25, wait for it to be repaid, then loan it out again.

http://www.kiva.org/

Re: Google One Today

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Post by tomasien »

Have you ever been working on something then had some huge company just go ahead and release exactly what you're building? Yeah, um, that totally didn't just happen to me.

Re: Google One Today

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Post by ruswick »

Sunlis wrote: post #4
solox3 wrote: post #2

It won't fly just like this - You can't just ask people to download an app and donate a buck a day. You need an incentive. This will definitely work if the $1 gets the donor an "item of the day" from the play store, which Google can most certainly give out copies for "free".

That seems quite cynical. Kiva is quite successful, and they offer no incentives at all; you just loan $25, wait for it to be repaid, then loan it out again. http://www.kiva.org/

Regardless, adding a tangible incentive will undoubtedly increase adoption and will cost Google little to nothing. It seems like a good idea.

Re: Google One Today

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Post by tomasien »

tomasien wrote: post #5

Have you ever been working on something then had some huge company just go ahead and release exactly what you're building? Yeah, um, that totally didn't just happen to me.

In all seriousness, it's pretty cool to see this small bit of validation for what I'm doing. It's not my project (freelance work that I chose bc I liked it), not on the same platform, and not EXACTLY the same, so this is really nothing but a good thing. Still, threw me back on my heels a bit.

Re: Google One Today

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Post by ryandvm »

molecule wrote: post #3

"One Today is an app that brings together people and nonprofits through the simple act of giving $1." To be clear: you'd be giving the non-profit $0.98, and your credit-card company $0.02: http://www.google.com/onetoday/faq.html "How much of my donation will reach the nonprofit? "The nonprofit will get all of your donation except the credit card processing fee of 1.9%"

And this is the real value of Bitcoin et al. As more and more commerce moves to the Internet, I become increasingly irked by the credit card processing "tax" levied by Visa/Mastercard. I long for the day we can yank those leeches off the legs of the Internet economy...
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