Blaise Alleyne

snowdrift.coop -- am I the only one a bit confused?

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I feel like I'm supposed to give money to snowdrift.coop (it sounds amazing), so I'm going to make a pledge.

But I must admit... while I get the general idea, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around exactly how the system is going to work in practice without sitting down for half an hour to read through the whole website, try a demo, etc...

The elevator pitch is great at selling me on the high-level need for a better solution to the funding problem, but I don't really have a concrete sense of what it will mean for me as a patron without doing a bunch of homework...

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Yes, it should be simplified.

Jason Self at 2014-12-29T04:07:18Z

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Cc: @Aaron Wolf (re: above conversation), in case this feedback is in any way constructive or useful for a better explanation / elevator pitch. (I hope it doesn't come across as whining or anything -- I love what you're doing and just donated to the project!)

Maybe, what would make a difference, is if very early on in the introduction, there's a clear explanation and example of what it would mean for me as a patron of the project (like what precisely I would be paying and how that is determined), without diving into the economic problem of funding non-rivalrous goods or the mechanics of the funding formula, etc., to try and figure that out.

e.g.

HTH...

Blaise Alleyne at 2014-12-29T04:28:11Z

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I don't know if they've added it, but I'd be worried about depleting my funds too quickly if I didn't have some way to cap the amount I was willing to donate to a project in a month. In the demo I went from donating 8c/day to $1.10/day until the other guy ran out of money.

Efraim Flashner at 2014-12-29T08:45:00Z

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Right, yeah, me too.

Snowdrift.coop seems to have lots of new interesting ideas, but one of the really interesting things about Flattr in its simplicity is that your monthly costs are totally fixed.

That helps combat the mental transaction costs of micropayments -- there isn't really any mental transaction cost when each Flattr doesn't change how much you're paying, but just how it's divided up...

Blaise Alleyne at 2014-12-29T09:01:52Z