Considering taking donations to support the MagicMirror project. Interested in your thoughts!

[savona]

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.

[michael24h]

@savona
Donations a for keep going forum, not for resolving issues with modules.

[retroflex]

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.

[smartmirrorkits]

@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.

[Tibor070]

Willing to donate for this awesome project and work done by MichMich. Prefer PayPal for donations.

[dgregory19]

@michmich I would donate for sure. Surprised that there is not an option already.

[AgP42]

+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, …

[solotechno]

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.

[mailbagrahul]

I would also agree to support thru PayPal. Great stuff man. Thanks for making this community very healthy and supportive.

[Anthony]

I am willing to donate as long as it remains voluntary.
paypal is prefered as payment method.

[rafaelcota]

@mykle1 I’m with you, but I’ll add PayPal as a way to donate.

[lavolp3]

(Sorry, too tempting…)

I’d definitely donate. I love this whole project.

[MichMich]

Hi Everybody,

Thanks for all your suggestions! I’ve added a donate link (using Paypal) to the homepage, the forum menubar and the readme of the project (currently dev branch only). If you have any suggestions where I can add more donate buttons without being annoying, feel free to let me know.

If you want to go to the donation-page directly, please follow this link.

To all of you that are going to donate: many many many thanks in advance!

[broberg]

@michmich

The link sends you to a paypal site with dutch language,

Not a big deal, but should be English as default :)

Edit : And also, Donated ofc!

[MichMich]

@broberg First of all: thanks for the donation! I really appreciate it!

Your link doesn’t seem to work since it includes your (expired) session token. I checked the donate button config, and it should display an English form. I tried changing the locale but it doesn’t seem to work.

This is the official sharable link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G5D8E9MR5DTD2&source=url

Adding the locale doesn’t seem to work:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G5D8E9MR5DTD2&source=url&country.x=NL&locale.x=nl_EN

Any suggestions?

[Mykle1]

@michmich said in Considering taking donations to support the MagicMirror project. Interested in your thoughts!:

I like the idea of adding some sort of recognition system. This can be a nice perk for those who contribute.

Has this been implemented?

[MichMich]

@mykle1 Yes, I’ve created a group to which I will I eventually add all the sponsors.

[broberg]

@michmich

What if we try this link?

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G5D8E9MR5DTD2&source=url&lc=US

[justjim1220]

@agp42
That’s assuming all the registered members are all still active members.
but, I like your thinming on this!:winking_face:

[Mykle1]

@broberg said in Considering taking donations to support the MagicMirror project. Interested in your thoughts!:

What if we try this link?
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G5D8E9MR5DTD2&source=url&lc=US

Now they have all my information. Wonderful!