This finally feels like a solution to a problem we all knew we had.
thanks for the validation, it means a lot to us.
Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
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Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#152Hopefully this is fixed soon, but now I just see a blank page when I go to the site. Is it this way for anybody else?
Sorry we had a slight outage but it should be working fine now.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#153I put 50$ in the pokey machine but it’s only paid it out to two projects? Some of the other projects which are missing out I already donate to. Any ideas?
Hi! Thanks for trying it out. I have reached out via email but just in case, looks like your account is configured for only first level dependencies. If you increase it to 3 levels it'll show much better results. You're also able to adjust the distribution of funds via boosting in the dependencies page. Please note the donation will be kept in PENDING state for 5 days to allow time for full dependency analysis, adjus…
Ok thanks so much. I assumed first level dependencies were anything that would turn up in a requirements.txt so reduced it from the default.
Thanks for building this and I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops.
I will add my voice to the "allowing this service full access to my repos is uncomfortable" crowd, there's a couple of my clients that have stricter NDAs which has meant those repos have been excluded. But you'll figure that out when you do.
Cheers and enjoy the product launch :)
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#154It might be a good idea to add auto splitting. I won't bother assigning each and every dependency an amount. Kinda like Xbox Game Pass or Setapp.
You're absolutely right. Some orgs have huge lists. We do suggest the split but it's rather subjective so we also provide the tools to let sponsors boots & exclude.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There is absolutely nothing wrong with charging a fee for a service Agreed, but percentage-based fees can quickly become an unfairly large part of payments. I love the idea of this project, but I'd prefer there to be a 5% or X dollars minimum, so that if 5% is more than X dollars, then it doesn't force 5% minimum. If I'm donating $500 to 45 projects, then each project on an even split is getting $11, but thanks.dev…
My guess is that more than half of that $25 goes to the payment provider (Stripe etc.). Maybe more. The remaining ~$10 will go to thaks.dev to cover operational costs, administration and other expenses. I don't expect them to work for free. If you think it's unfair, contact the developers directly to see if you can wire them money (to avoid PayPal fees). If it's too much work, you can pay services like thanks.dev tha…
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Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#156This feels like it should be a charity or a non-profit entity.
There's already a lot of foundations that haven't been able to scale the process of paying thousands of developers due to tax & employment issues across the globe. We think creating the right commercial incentives would have a better chance but we might also be wrong. Time will tell...
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A 5% flat fee is too much for me though, if it had a cap then it'd be different. It can't have a cap if payment gateway processing fees are percentage-based.
I do see your point but in this case _everyone_ pays the 5% even though the payout only happens once per project and the payment also only happens once per person donating. It might be that it is this expensive to run, I don't know. It just seems unfair to me that the platform would get 5% and "only" 95% are distributed to the projects. I do understand that everyone has a different definition of "fair" and I also don…
It doesn't matter whether the payment happens once or multiple times if the processing fee is on a percentage basis.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#158> You need to enable JavaScript to access thanks.dev.
Not a great start for delivering me basic information on what this even is.
Reminder that Microsoft GitHub and GitLab do not have a duopoly on decentralized (self-hostable) version control. Products like this feed into folks feeling compelled to join big, proprietary services.
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#159The 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
My Name is Armin Nehzat (aka armini), my brother is Ali Nehzat (aka qwerki). Feel free to also look us up on linkedin if that helps. Here's a podcast of my brother talking about how he started the project https://podcast.sustainoss.org/148
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#160In case you hadn't seen this yet, GitHub offers this service: https://github.com/sponsors/explore (need to be logged in) I have no insight but I could imagine that GitHub are going to offer something similar based on that data at some point in the future. For us the "top" developers on that page are people with 150+ repos that we depend on that I have never head of before. It turns out that they are all tiny JavaScri…
Letting Microsoft GitHub try to monopolize laterally in the developer space by doing funding is going to lead to further lock-in for folks down the line. I’d be wary of supporting them with a chunk of your donation.