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Re:Patreon Gains $30M Series B Funding to Support Growth by minimaxir on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @08:11PM (#10942696)
I have a question for HN: would running a Patreon for a software developer be a good idea?

It's something I've been considering doing myself in lieu of the traditional ads/sponsorships/ebooks/etc methods of monetization, but it might not make sense since the costs of development (for purely code-related endeavors) are much more manageable than artistic endeavors.

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Re:Patreon Gains $30M Series B Funding to Support Growth by rkho on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @08:19PM (#10942737)
I back the Patreon campaign of a software engineer who makes a very niche platform that I find lots of value in:

https://www.patreon.com/cubetutor?ty=h

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Re:Patreon Gains $30M Series B Funding to Support Growth by brandnewlow on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @08:43PM (#10942805)
CubeTutor saved my bacon several times during this most recent Holiday Cube.
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Re:Patreon Gains $30M Series B Funding to Support Growth by e12e on Thursday January 21, 2016 @01:59AM (#10943778)
I'd think that Patreon for software would be more like Bountysource?

https://www.bountysource.com/

I suppose there's room for different models though: both "support your hero developer", and "support features of projects". But perhaps the former is better served by organizations like Mozilla?

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