Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Considering taking donations to support the MagicMirror project. Interested in your thoughts!
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Mich: This is absolutely not an unreasonable request. Given the amount of effort and time you have put into this project and the benefit to me, I would certainly donate. I’m surprised you have not added a donation button yet. I just assumed you were independently wealthy!
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Perhaps take a look at the model Sam Harris uses for his podcast. It’s very similar to what you’re proposing here. It seems to work for him and it’s a much more honest and better approach for Internet based projects going forward (as opposed to ad-based systems).
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You should make the forum have ads if the person is not logged in. That should generate some income.
Also a voluntary donation is easy to setup and I really enjoyed the project so far and would be willing to give a donation as I think most would.
Another option would be have paid plugins. For example I have been bashing my head trying to get the analytics plugin to work. I would be willing to pay for it.
Good luck and I hope everything works out for you.
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@savona
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MM has been the most fun and at the same time useful project I’ve ever been involved with. I will definitely donate! And I wouldn’t have learned node.js and extended my Linux knowledge if it wasn’t for MM, which is worth a lot. Great work @MichMich!
I think single donations is the way to go (or at least the option for single donations). I think people are more hesitant to sign up for monthly/yearly donations.
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@MichMich We’re currently working on a project featuring MagicMirror and would be very interested in supporting. Would you mind sending us private message so we can reach out? Would love to share more details.
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Willing to donate for this awesome project and work done by MichMich. Prefer PayPal for donations.
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@michmich I would donate for sure. Surprised that there is not an option already.
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+1
and could you give us some advice how much you need, for example : if 10% of the forum user gives 10€ each year it’s covers the forum server expenses, or if 10% of MM users gives 5€ each month you could work full time on it, …
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I would definitely support one-time donations via PayPal and a monthly tiered Patreon. As someone mentioned before I like the idea of a Patreon tier that would be able to vote on what modules and features are added next. Personally I would support a monthly Patreon.
I would also not be opposed to a marketplace where developers could make money from their modules and support the modules that they create. Similar to what WordPress has done with plugins and themes.
