Money and Open Source

tl;dr - The current situation isn’t optimal

We need to figure out better ways to fund open source software. This is a problem I’ve thought a lot about over the last few years, and what follows is a long exploration.

Reverse Network Effects: How internet startups lose value with greater traction

The challenges of…

“Teams Work”

I want to publish a blog post that says, “Someone is taking $1,000/wk from a team on…

A Lesson in Traction Channels

The property of a traction channel that makes it work at first, later…

Growing Gratipay

Let’s race to a million active users! :-)

“Pay Your Heroes”

What is the blog post we want to be able to publish?

A month ago I laid out a framework for thinking about growing Gratipay:

Breadth (active users) through generous people.

Communication!

After 15 years, WYSIWYG that doesn’t suck

Feedback from Hope Leman

Received in email, posted with permission

Hi, Chad. These are just my reactions as someone very interested in crowdfunding. I am going to refer quite a bit to Kickstarter in these jottings because that is the only crowdfunding site…