Doh!
I gave the wrong Codepen link - it should have been
http://codepen.io/tibit/pen/4afb356791c78ad05eff60af14d8504a
My apologies!
--Justin
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Justin Maxwell <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Bryce, Martin, Tavmjong, Krzysztof, Ted, Josh, & Jon...
>
> Apologies for the cold group email, but I'm hoping that this will be of
> interest, and maybe mutually beneficial.
>
> I'm Justin Maxwell, and I'm the founder of London startup tibit
> <http://www.tibit.com/>. We're also just a tiny wee early-stage company,
> taking on one of the great unsolved Internet problems of the past couple of
> decades - casual micropayments (and micro-donations!). This gives us a big
> 'chicken and egg' problem - to succeed we need sites and software that are
> 'tibbable', to bring in the users - and we need the users to bring in the
> recipients. We're different to Flattr etc, in that we address the
> cognitive barrier to making small 'in-the-moment' payments or donations
> online. We set out to achieve making a micro-donation as easy as dropping
> a couple of coins into a buskers hat, once a user has signed up.
>
> Specifically, we're hoping to tib button on your donations page, but the
> longer term plan is to give appreciative users of Inkscape (and similarly
> other appreciated software and content) a way to tangibly show that
> appreciation repeatedly, perhaps with a means to tib directly from the
> application help menu. Not so much as a request for donations as much as
> enabling users to easily show their support.
>
> We have pretty basic tib buttons on the Notepad++ donate page
> <https://notepad-plus-plus.org/donate/donate-action.html> and PyDev home
> page <http://www.pydev.org/>, and we see open-source software as a real
> beneficiary of our service once we get some traction.
>
> We use bitcoin at the back-end, but local currency for the donating user,
> paid with their existing Visa/MasterCard. You don't seem to currently
> have a bitcoin donation option, and there might be some minor issues with
> passing payment along to the Software Freedom Conservancy, but if we add to
> the reasons why Inkscape might get and publish a donations bitcoin address,
> so much the better.
>
> Here's how it works:
>
>
> Users buy a bundle of ten-or-more tokens (we call them tibs) of a value
> they set (say €0.25) and can then give/pay them out wherever they see a tib
> button (it also works as a simple link). Because the tibs have already been
> paid for, and the value pre-set, the user doesn't have to think twice,
> consider price fairness, or decide how much, for each tiny transaction.
> This makes deciding to show some support or reward something worthwhile a
> near-instinctive decision for a user.
>
> Once five tibs are collected for a particular bitcoin address, the
> combined value is paid out to your bitcoin address. We take 2p (~3¢)
> regardless of the value of the users tib. Because it's bitcoin, there isn't
> any signup required by the recipient, just set the bitcoin address as a
> parameter.
>
>
> Have a look at this codepen
> <http://codepen.io/tibit/pen/cabc38c7a517a2756b2a20922dc70e94> - it's set
> up to use a testnet bitcoin address, so operates in demo mode, but it'll
> give you an idea of how slick and easy the tibbing process is, and a feel
> for why this can work where so many other attempts to solve 'The
> Micropayments Problem' have not. (note that there is a Chrome bug relating
> to Codepen sand-boxed child windows that makes it work better in other
> browsers) or you can spend the two free tibs we give every new user via our
> home <http://tibit.com> or about us <https://tibit.com/about-us/> pages,
> or the other projects linked above.
>
> I’m not going to pretend anyone has made a lot of $£€ from one of our
> buttons yet! But as tib buttons pop-up in more and more places people will
> start to give, little and often, to the services, products, and content
> that they use and appreciate.
>
> We’d love to work with you on this. If you’d like to, you can just use
> the button from the Codepen after getting a bitcoin address, but if we can
> can help in anyway to integrate it further, please drop me an email.
>
> Meanwhile, as someone who uses every few days, I wouldn't be reaching out
> to you if *I* wouldn't be sending tibs your way...
>
> Best regards,
> --Justin
>
>
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