How do you fund work people don't want to pay for?
What is the best way to fund your startup?
47 votes, 44 comments. If you’re married or have kids starting a business can be a lot harder. You have more to lose and more people depending on…
Tightwads and spendthrifts: An interdisciplinary review
Consumers rely on a “pain of paying” to help deter their spending. While this is beneficial for some consumers, others experience levels of pain that create problems. “Tightwads” experience too much pain when considering spending and therefore spend less than they would ideally like to spend. By contrast, “spendthrifts” experience too little pain and therefore spend more than they would ideally like to spend. Neither are happy with how they handle money. In the decade since the tightwad‐spendthrift construct was introduced, much has been learned about what it is and is not (e.g., frugality, greed), what contextual factors are likely to reduce its importance, how it plays a role within romantic relationships, and when it might first emerge in childhood. This paper reviews the wide range of interdisciplinary research relevant to the tightwad‐spendthrift construct and proposes several directions for new research.
at.fund — We can just pay for things
No VCs, no ads — just builders getting paid directly for the work you already rely on.
at.fund — We can just pay for things
No VCs, no ads — just builders getting paid directly for the work you already rely on.
“Pricing Profitable Projects,” an article by Dan Mall
Make it work for them and you—in that order.
Marque Fund - Open Collective
A fund that sponsors non-profits, open-source projects, and more with a domain of their own.
Welcome to Solidfund
Solidfund supports workers to own and control their own livelihoods. For £1 a week you can join the campaign for a fair world of work.
Money for mutual resilience: Introducing Blacksky Cash
Mutual aid has always been about more than money. But money, shared intentionally, can be a powerful expression of solidarity. This is us building toward that future.
Why The Rich Think The Poor Are Lazy
Fund the Grand Space Odyssey
Self-owned crowdfunding for a massive multiplayer space game. Every euro lands on a feature. Direct half of yours. Watch the cascade.
I need people to stop trying to solve funding problems in the Atmosphere by trying to be attractive to the same funders and funding models that put us in this situation in the first place. Empowering individuals and communities via technology was step one. Step two is doing the same for funding.
My takeaway from Atmosphere: it needs to be WAY easier for builders to get paid So I built at.fund at.fund detects the tools you use, and tells you how to fund the builders who make those tools. And if you're a builder, it takes seconds to add records to that tell your users how to fund you 👍
at.fund
Tried building on Mastodon, wasn't financially viable. There's extremely little will to pay people for work in the fediverse, and Mastodon couldn't even give credit to contributors to help them raise their own profile. The only Fediverse orgs that have paid me are IFTAS and Nivenly.
Pedro Vezza
Why did you decide to bet on atproto over Mastodon or similar?
novel funding mechanisms
funding models that doesn't depend on VC. funding models that keep things accessible and open but yet provide enough incentive for people to pay
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The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing
goals-based universal paywalls - pivot point - Obsidian Publish
