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whit537

2,157 karma · joined April 5, 2011

I retired from tech to live offline: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323683

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whit537··on The End of Gratipay

Thanks for contributing and hanging around, and for the kind words and for using Gratipay to donate!

whit537··on The End of Gratipay

And THANK YOU to all of you who believed in Gratipay enough to freely give and receive $1.1 million over the past five years—all of the companies (MaxCDN, andyet, Stripe, Balanced, Digital Ocean, COS, Khan Academy, Klarna, Heroku, Crate.io, etc., etc.), the individuals (chrisdev, ncoghlan, adambrault, bruceadams, campadrenalin, jedgar, rdegges, therabidbanana, etc., etc. etc.), the open source projects and programmers (alexpott, DrupalCoreTeam, jmervine, bundler, jeresig, substack, zzzeek, bbatsov, mitsuhiko, kennethreitz, ericholscher/RtD, etc., etc.), and, yes, even the provocateurs (it's not your fault we didn't manage our community well).

Thanks for giving us a shot. Sorry it didn't work out. Best of luck!

whit537··on The End of Gratipay

And thanks to timothyfcook jeffspies calvinhp & kapilt for subsidizing my Gratipay habit these past few years w/ contract work! ;)

whit537··on The End of Gratipay

Deep breath, man. I've finally reached a place where I can let others tell their side of that story without feeling threatened by it. I worked hard to get to this point! Don't you go internalizing bad feelings on my behalf! :)

whit537··on The End of Gratipay

Thanks to all our translators!

whit537··on The End of Gratipay

Okay, now tell me who I forgot (I"M SORRY!!!!)! :D

whit537··on The End of Gratipay

Thanks for the kind words! I won't pretend I didn't put a lot of work into Gratipay over the years, but the reality is that so did a lot of other people. The most meaningful part about Gratipay for me is and has been the community building it. Gosh, I want to start naming names but then I'll forget someone. Aww, heck ...

Thank you clone1018, co-owner of Gratipay, LLC! Thank you mattbk, jessa, rohitpaulk! Thank you edoverflow and the whole (new) security team! Thank you dmk246 and kaguillera! Thank you Changaco and zwn and chrisdev and rummik and seanlinsley and bruceadams and duckinator and colindean everyone else from the Gittip days! Thank you techtonik and aandis and rorepo and wyze and oakes and joonas and patcon! Thank you nobodxdobon and shurcooL and dowski and tshepang!

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whit537 on The End of Gratipay

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whit537 on The End of Gratipay

Thanks for giving us a shot, Sir_Cmpwn! Sorry it didn't work out. Glad you're finding some success ... here's to more! :^)

whit537 on The End of Gratipay

You're a dork, clone1018. You're making me tear up over here! :~)
xoxo

whit537 on The End of Gratipay

Changaco is awesome. We met in person for the first time last year (it was post-fork) and it was a great time.

whit537 on The End of Gratipay

Thanks, kzisme! Was good to have you around while it lasted, maybe some day we'll get to meet in person! Cheers! :^)

whit537 on The End of Gratipay

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whit537 on The End of Gratipay

Thanks for the send-off, everyone. Feels right somehow to hit the HN homepage one more time before putting Gratipay to bed. So many lessons learned, already scheming about Next Time™.
See you down the line! :D

whit537 on We’ve Raised $60M in New Funding

> only getting enough
That's because total volume is so low. Back when it mattered we were seeing 5% of volume as income to Gratipay, comparable to Patreon, etc.

whit537 on Open Source Captures 0.02% of the Value It Creates

Invent something besides free software, you mean?
I think it can be sustainable if we can change the culture in tech so that it's normal to support open source. There are 20M programmers in the world. If 10% of us each had a budget of $1,000 from our employers to spend on open source each year, that would be $2B/yr for the open source community--equivalent to another Red Hat.

whit537 on Ask HN: Making money from a JavaScript library?

We recently integrated npm into Gratipay so companies can pay for their package.json:
https://gratipay.news/integrating-npm-39333109419d https://gratipay.news/pay-for-your-package-json-cb07341445ca
If you claim your npm packages on Gratipay then you'll be ready as we start bringing companies online to pay:
https://gratipay.com/on/npm/?flow=receive

whit537 on Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture

We're still here! Check https://gratipay.news/ for what we've been up to. :-)

whit537 on Open-source Funding and Support Questionnaire

It sounds like you've mostly tried to pay for new development on projects? As opposed to remunerating for existing product? Does that sound right?

whit537 on Open-source Funding and Support Questionnaire

Fwiw, I've copied your comments over to https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/987#i....

whit537 on Open-source Funding and Support Questionnaire

P.S. Gittip and Gratipay are the same thing. :-)
https://gratipay.news/gratitude-gratipay-ef24ad5e41f9

whit537 on Open-source Funding and Support Questionnaire

Yeah! Are you going to release this survey data, @froztbyte?

whit537 on Open-source Funding and Support Questionnaire

Who are you, @froztbyte? Wanna be part of https://sustainoss.org/? :-)

whit537 on Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

> people will never track down all the OSS projects they depend on and figure what would be a reasonable donation to give them. Too much agency is required of the user to achieve meaningful adoption.
Yes! This gets at the B2B question mentioned elsewhere on this thread. At Gratipay, we're working on integrating package managers to help with aggregation. We've already loaded up all npm packages with stubbed out pages like:
https://gratipay.com/on/npm/express/
Now we're working on adding the ability for package maintainers to easily claim their packages on Gratipay, and then companies can upload a package.json or something and give a chunk of money to their entire dependency chain. Happening here:
https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/4305

whit537 on Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

Yes! This is basically what we've concluded at Gratipay (née Gittip). Existing crowdfunding solutions are consumer-grade, and open source needs business-grade crowdfunding, as it were. We're working on it! :)

whit537 on Ask HN: Patreon for open source?

There's also https://opencollective.com/ https://github.com/OpenCollective/OpenCollective (JavaScript).

whit537 on Show HN: Pythonpy – the swiss army knife of the command line

How about the Gittip badges from http://shields.io/?

whit537 on I Resent You – An Open Letter to Shanley Kane

I'm only going to make one comment on this thread:
If you use this thread to make disparaging comments about Shanley, you're missing the point and you're doing it wrong. Go look at how respectfully I tried to treat Shanley when she gave me tons of crap, and then go do the same thing. Shanley's abuse does not make your abuse okay.
Let's all be kind to each other! :D

whit537 on Gittip, Year Two

Hadn't heard of Wikimedia's FDAs, sounds awesome! Do you have a link for more info?

whit537 on Gittip, Year Two

Thank you. :-)

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