We published a book in “Pay as you want” model. Here are the results.

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17 points·kubindurion··7 comments

What do you think about crowd-funding further development of existing open source project? Did something like this happen?

Pay as you want for books is good idea, as long as you know what to expect. Good job on summarizing the outcome :)

The problem is, you never know how much people will pay in this model. I wonder what are the factors that would increase average price.

there should be some additional mechanism, if you pay more than average than you get X

So it's Humble Bundle style, right? It could work if you have more than 1 item. https://www.humblebundle.com/

rvm (an open source tool for managing your Ruby environment) had a crowd-funding campaign: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/rvm/fundraiser They collected all the cash they needed, the maintainer took a break for some time, and now they're working on the next major release.

> Note that Hacker News traffic is included in “(direct) / (none)”, they hide it somehow.

Why does HN hide the referer url? (How?)

If a website using https (HN) points to a website not using https (the blog), then the referer is hidden. So it's not something HN is doing specifically, it's just because one is https and the other is not.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer

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