On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Jonathan Roberts
<[email protected]> wrote:
These things may have been discussed already, but these are initial
thoughts from friends looking at the system; ie theoretical potential
patrons.
1)It will make the average person nervous to not see a very clear
representation of what they are going to be paying total. This
relates to the other discussion we were having; regardless of whether
or not it gives people the impression that this is a "great bargain"
or whatever, people need to see a very clear presentation of what
they will be called on to pay or they will be very nervous about
signing on at all.
This has also been my experience talking to others. I think the system
of depositing funds and then paying from your deposit helps, but we
could probably do more.
**I think this particular issue IS worth talking about in the MVP. If
we're going to get to the point where we have to worry about pledge
sizes getting out of control, etc, we need to remove barriers to
becoming a patron.**
note to self: "Patronizing" cannot be used as a verb to mean "becoming
a patron" :P
At the same time, I also think if we're talking about the scale of less
than $1 per month, people don't really care if that amount doubles.
Some kind of 'warn me if my contribution/mo goes over $X feature' could
be implemented?
2)As more people sign on to the system, shouldn't the average pledge
rate go down? If you originally sign on at $1 per 5000 people, but
then 60000 sign on, you don't each need to be paying $12- each person
can be paying much less than the original $1 per 5000, and the
collective result will still be enormous.
I think this is a concern. However, I also agree with the general
consensus: "too much money" is a very good problem to have. We should
worry about getting to that point, and deal with this issue once we get
there.
After all, the worst case scenario is that patron X drops out because
they can't afford the minimum donation, and the expense of a minimum
donation acts as a kind of gating mechanism on how much money any one
project can get at once.
3)We should have an option for automatic withdrawal directly from a
bank account. The "snowdrift account" is a great buffer to help some
people feel comfortable, but other people are going to say "I don't
want to have to keep thinking about depositing funds or be reminded
of it; I believe in this enough to just commit to it being directly
withdrawn.
Would be nice, but not necessary for launch.
~Stephen
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