Developing an app is not easy or fast. Its time consuming and requires you pour a lot of your own time and money. We love your app and want to ensure it remains sustainable for you to continue development. Please make it as easy as possible for all of us to donate monthly by using the platforms a lot of us use. These being github sponsors, patreon, open collective, and liberapay.
For reference this is the voyager (formerly wefwef) developers github sponsors which is also a great project the community is starting to help fund https://github.com/sponsors/aeharding
And some servers have open collectives to pay their server bills which is also great https://opencollective.com/beehaw
So in your opinion would you rather see it be an OpenCollective or an in-app tip jar? There’s ups and downs to both.
On one hand, using OpenCollective would have a 10% fee which is lower, but would have less “publicity” to it. On the other hand, the in-app tip jar would be more visible but would have a 15% fee on it (I’d have to make it recurring to even get that percentage, there’s a 30% fee on non-recurring transactions IIRC).
I’m fine with either, or even both if that’s something that would make more sense.
I think it will be more profitable for you to include an in-app tip jar because it will be easier to participate (less engagement needed).
Edit : i would like an in-app tip better personnally
Is Liberapay an option? They don’t have processing fees: https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq
Both/all options makes the most sense but an in app tip jar with recurring donations is really great.
I like the others as well because people can see transparently how much is being donated but yeah in app is definitely convenient too
I’d rather see it in whatever platform ensures you get the most % of the actual money. If the tip jar approach means Apple gets 30%. It’s against their ToS to link to off-platform payment solutions, right, so you wouldn’t be able to put a link to OC in the settings, I presume. Both is probably fine, in reality, money is money. OG users like us would just do whatever’s more practical. I already use OC to donate to other FOSS projects, so this would just add to that monthly spend.