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This gives me an idea for a platform that:

- looks at your Github repos

- looks through all your dependencies

- lists all the projects you depend on that support donations

- shows you how much (or rather little!) they're making now

- shows you the (Patreon) rewards you can get for supporting them

- allows you to support them right there and then!

I honestly think this is a legitimate idea and kind of want to pitch it to Y Combinator right now. It would be like something that ties Patreon and Github together.

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Okay I just posted this idea to Hacker News, find it in my submissions if you're interested :)



Sounds like a cool idea for a free open-source project. Too bad your Patreon for it would be somewhat underfunded...


Chicken v Egg! Haha, did not think of that :D Actually I think a Kickstarter would be more appropriate for this, but even then it seems unlikely to get any funding. I think going straight to a VC would be my best bet.


Nah, just build it. A VC would cause the resulting service to end up very poor due to money pressure.


I don't think so? The product is too simple to get destroyed from money pressure and bloat. All it needs to do to make it worth their while is skim a little off the top, maybe 1%.


Worth a discission IMO, have my upvote :)

Direct link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17634117



Very similar, but a product like this has to remove absolutely every point of friction it can, and make it as close to 1-click as possible. This is a command line utility that gives you links, which is a great start. We can make it even simpler!


> kind of want to pitch it to Y Combinator

Does that imply that you see it making money too? How would it do that?


Ads to developers?


I figured it would take 1% and keep it, but ads might make more sense.




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