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Things to know before starting a Patreon page

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Re: Things to know before starting a Patreon page

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Post by fxtentacle »

redis_mlc wrote: post #8
pencerw wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(Author of the blog post here) Point taken, though I'm not sure that's exactly what I said. My complaint re: accounting is that Patreon integrates horribly with QBO. If they cared, they would have a webhook that rolled up all collected pledges, payment processing fees, sales taxes and platform fees into a single sales receipt so that QBO et al could ingest and record it as a sale (or a list of sales). Also, the thing…

I don't know any artists who use QuickBooks, so I'm not sure where you're coming from. You're in some kind of parallel universe to the people happily using Patreon to collect from their followers. And they don't care about "revenue" vs "earnings" since they went to Berklee College of Music, and just want to pay their rent this month. To be constructive: - explain your use case in your blog. Perhaps you have an advanc…

I work with many freelance photographers who use QBO, so it is common in some industries.

BTW, your example sounds a bit like those people have a complete disregard for tax law. That sounds like the end of the year is going to be very shocking when they figure out that the patreon money which they used for rent wasn't actually theirs to use.

Re: Things to know before starting a Patreon page

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Post by quadrangle »

ehutch79 wrote: post #3

I'd love to know what the other options are out there, as mentioned in the article. Right now, patreon is well known, and I'd be concerned with an unknown site turning supporters off.

Here's a thorough summary: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...

(at the wiki of still-not-launched different type of patronage platform that is sharing its own research)

Re: Things to know before starting a Patreon page

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Post by stickfigure »

I would add - as a patron, the UI is horrible.

The one thing I'd like, when I subscribe to someone, is a list of patron-only content so that I can slowly go back and watch/listen to/read past material. Instead the only option is an infinite-scroll style blog roll, which makes it extremely hard to go back and pick up where you left off. It's also impossible to navigate in anything other than inverse chronological order. Atrocious.

Re: Things to know before starting a Patreon page

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Post by zzzeek »

Patreon does not seem very spectacular but I don't exactly see what the reason not to have a patreon page is. I have one and it is one of several different income sources for my open source work. it's 100 bucks a month I wouldn't have otherwise.

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Post by bestnameever »

zzzeek wrote: post #14

Patreon does not seem very spectacular but I don't exactly see what the reason not to have a patreon page is. I have one and it is one of several different income sources for my open source work. it's 100 bucks a month I wouldn't have otherwise.

Thank you for SQLAlchemy and Mako. My first project was with Pyramid and your tools made it easy so I'm not surprised you have contributors.

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Post by nitwit005 »

stickfigure wrote: post #13

I would add - as a patron, the UI is horrible. The one thing I'd like, when I subscribe to someone, is a list of patron-only content so that I can slowly go back and watch/listen to/read past material. Instead the only option is an infinite-scroll style blog roll, which makes it extremely hard to go back and pick up where you left off. It's also impossible to navigate in anything other than inverse chronological orde…

I'm fairly sure some people are clicking the heart (like?) button on every post they read to know when they can stop scrolling.

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Post by johannes1234321 »

zzzeek wrote: post #14

Patreon does not seem very spectacular but I don't exactly see what the reason not to have a patreon page is. I have one and it is one of several different income sources for my open source work. it's 100 bucks a month I wouldn't have otherwise.

Reasons can be different:

- Taxation can be complicated depending on where in the world you are - Being paid can feel as a responsibility and you are doing this for fun - You are employed for working on the project or have some nother clause preventing being paid - You might be rich :-D

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Post by ivansavz »

ehutch79 wrote: post #3

I'd love to know what the other options are out there, as mentioned in the article. Right now, patreon is well known, and I'd be concerned with an unknown site turning supporters off.

Gumroad has been pretty solid for all things I've tried. They have subscriptions, which is not exactly Patreon, but essentially the same kind of thing (recurrent payments).
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