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Tiptap - Dev Toolkit Editor Suite

Tiptap is a suite of content editing & real time collaboration tools. Build editor experiences like Notion in weeks, not years.

Philip Isik

I am a Berlin-based entrepreneur, YC alum and former frontend developer. I co-founded Tiptap, the content and document editing dev suite, used by hundreds of millions of users.

Pocketstars: The creator site where payments don’t always happen

With the influx of creator sites such as Onlyfans, rivals have been popping up everywhere. However, all are not equal and it’s vital that…

The politics of ‘platforms’ - Tarleton Gillespie, 2010

Online content providers such as YouTube are carefully positioning themselves to users, clients, advertisers and policymakers, making strategic claims for what ...

Indiegraf: The Operating System Built for Independent Newsrooms

Manage, publish, monetize and grow with Indiegraf—supporting 180+ independent media outlets and covering all your publishing needs in one place.

The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization

Sure, we have open source, federated replacements for Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube. How do we get creators to use this stuff? One consideration involves the ability to pay for things.

Five Interesting Indie Platforms You Might Not Have Heard Of

After deleting my corporate social media accounts, I've discovered five interesting indie platforms and online communities you might not have heard of: Special Fish, Ctrl + Shift + 3, web1.0 Hosting, Pillowfort, and Blue Dwarf. A look at what makes each unique, from brutalist design to old-device accessibility, and a call to support the independent web financially.

Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing | TechCrunch

New alternative category to 'closed source' could help companies monetize software in the open -- without going all-in on open source.

To people that donate to OSS, what platform do you prefer to use to donate?

40 votes, 27 comments. I am asking since I've only setup GitHub Sponsors for my project, but I feel like some people might not want to use that and I…

YourVids Creators (/c/YourVidsCreators) - OddsRabbit

A place for YourVids creators to promote their content and pages.

Kiro for startups

Accelerate from idea to production with free startup credits, community support, and structured AI coding.

Who actually owns your network?

Every time I moved a community to a new platform, the exit cost members and history. Platforms come and go; the lock-in architecture underneath is why. Part of 'Apps as Views, Not Vaults': the things you make are yours; apps are just the viewers.

Reflections: The ecosystem is moving

At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...

MintStars

London, UK, 10th May 2023 - To tackle the challenges in the creator economy, MintStars has developed the world's first sex-positive NFT subscription platform. While the creator economy is booming, creators on platforms like OnlyFans often struggle with high fees, burnout, piracy, and censorship. Sex workers and LGBTQ+ creators face widespread discrimination; almost 2/3 of adult creators have lost a bank account or payment app. MintStars provides a more inclusive alternative with lower fees, using crypto-based payments to protect creators from financial exclusion and enabling creators to earn money from fans reselling their content.