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Re: Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

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Post by Hoasi »

wmeredith wrote: post #3

I haven't read the article, but the branding absolutely sucks. When trying to generate income, Drip, is hardly the connotation I'd want. They should have gone with Flood or Tide. Something big and powerful MADE of Drips. I get what they were going for, but it seems like a tone deaf misfire. EDIT: And, as u/aronarduino pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the name is already taken (and the TLD drip.com) by a well est…

> (...) but the branding absolutely sucks.

For one, the new domain name extension (.rip) is not really killing it. Not sure what they were thinking, but hey, that's branding.

Re: Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

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Post by captainmuon »

I would like to hijacked this post to also mention Liberapay (https://liberapay.com) which is a fork of GitTip and ran by one of the original devs. I like it because it is a small, independent competitor to Patreon. It seems more suited to things that are not "art" or "internet celebrity", e.g. open source projects or political initiatives. It is like GitTip before the name change to Gratipay in that you don't need concrete rewards and it also funds individuals. (IIRC Gratipay introduced those changes to get around "money transferrer" laws that didn't allow them to send money no-strings-attached to individuals. Liberapay gets around this by being in EU jurisdiction).

It's still pretty small, but looks cool, and I'd love to see it succeed.

Re: Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

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Post by freeone3000 »

olalonde wrote: post #50
seibelj wrote: post #16

My idea for paying for open source code would be to auto-scan your codebase, find all open source projects, let you set a donation amount ($5, $10, $100, $1000) per month, and it would auto-donate to every project. Then give you a nice tax writeoff summary for the non-profits. Obviously many details to work out, but I could see a company willing to pay $500 per month if it was easy to donate to all the tools and proj…

The problem with this approach is that trivial libraries (e.g. https://github.com/visionmedia/debug ) that are widely used would get a disproportionate amount of donations.

That doesn't sound like a problem. If it's so widely-used, is it really trivial?

Re: Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

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Post by chx »

lolsal wrote: post #7
wmeredith wrote: post #3

I haven't read the article, but the branding absolutely sucks. When trying to generate income, Drip, is hardly the connotation I'd want. They should have gone with Flood or Tide. Something big and powerful MADE of Drips. I get what they were going for, but it seems like a tone deaf misfire. EDIT: And, as u/aronarduino pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the name is already taken (and the TLD drip.com) by a well est…

I think the point is not to attract people willing to take money in drips, but people willing to give money in drips. The taking side is the easy side. Getting people to give is the difficult side.

Really? The music that some people make (in my case, Peter Hollens, Taylor Davis, Clamavi De Profundis) makes me so happy I am very glad to give so they can make me more. In this world, it seems a very easy thing to understand that they can only make music if they are paid for it. This is the ideal model, there is no greedy studio stealing most of the money, I am directly connected to the artist, it just makes so much sense to give a few dollars. And also, I am not paying a lot here compared to the amount of quality entertainment time I get.

Re: Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

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Post by smacktoward »

microcolonel wrote: post #28
token_throwaway wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drip is also UK slang for a boring, unimpressive person :|

In Canada, the drip is slang for Gonorrhea.

As it is in the U.S.

Given that, the logo they chose is also somewhat... unfortunate.

Re: Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

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Post by smichel17 »

captainmuon wrote: post #52

I would like to hijacked this post to also mention Liberapay ( https://liberapay.com ) which is a fork of GitTip and ran by one of the original devs. I like it because it is a small, independent competitor to Patreon. It seems more suited to things that are not "art" or "internet celebrity", e.g. open source projects or political initiatives. It is like GitTip before the name change to Gratipay in that you don't need…

If I might hijack this comment, I'd like to mention Snowdrift.coop as well, which is targeted at free/libre/open works. ("Disclaimer": I am a member of our fully volunteer team.)

Snowdrift.coop functions in a similar no-strings-attached style to Liberapay, but uses a unique donation model, called Crowdmatching, where the amount of the monthly donation is based on the number of patrons. The platform itself will be funded as a project on its own site (rather than taking a cut of donations), and will be run as a non-profit cooperative (getting governance set up is one of our top priorities right now, alongside a public launch; if anyone has experience/expertise and would like to help with this, please reach out).

The best introduction, although visually outdated, is probably the intro page on our wiki: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro/

I wish I had time to stick around and chat, but it's a busy time in my semester right now; there's a wealth of adfitional information on the wiki and there's usually people around in irc/matrix (#snowdrift on freenode / matrix.org; the rooms are bridged).

Re: Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

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Post by avemuri »

wmeredith wrote: post #3

I haven't read the article, but the branding absolutely sucks. When trying to generate income, Drip, is hardly the connotation I'd want. They should have gone with Flood or Tide. Something big and powerful MADE of Drips. I get what they were going for, but it seems like a tone deaf misfire. EDIT: And, as u/aronarduino pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the name is already taken (and the TLD drip.com) by a well est…

Bigcos often tend to name products after their project name/strategic initiative /new business model instead of what they do/ what it means to their customer

Re: Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

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Post by dandare »

captainmuon wrote: post #52

I would like to hijacked this post to also mention Liberapay ( https://liberapay.com ) which is a fork of GitTip and ran by one of the original devs. I like it because it is a small, independent competitor to Patreon. It seems more suited to things that are not "art" or "internet celebrity", e.g. open source projects or political initiatives. It is like GitTip before the name change to Gratipay in that you don't need…

I am looking for a Patreon-like service where patrons could pledge money to individual pieces of content.

Imagine that I create and maintain a public transport map for each city in the world and I want to let locals to pledge to their local city map. Something like that. Ideally with a donation counter that I could embed into each individual map. Of course, there are thousands of cities so I will need an automated way (API) to create individual wallets. Does such service exist?

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