Patreon Funding Platform

Comments primarily recommend or discuss Patreon as a solution for content creators, projects, or individuals to receive direct, recurring financial support from patrons, often as an alternative to ad revenue or other models.

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Sample Comments

erichocean Apr 13, 2019 View on HN

People are already doing that with Patreon. Seems to work.

ekimekim Sep 30, 2017 View on HN

I feel like Patreon would be a good fit here.

yosito Oct 7, 2021 View on HN

Have they tried setting up a Patreon?

tekromancr Nov 20, 2017 View on HN

I was speaking more of platforms like patreon.

throw0101a Aug 24, 2022 View on HN

Isn't that what Patreon is for?

walterbell Dec 7, 2017 View on HN

Is there a viable alternative to Patreon?

knorker May 11, 2023 View on HN

I guess that's what patreon is for.

ww520 Aug 20, 2020 View on HN

Pay the Patreon accounts of the content creators directly to let them get the maximum benefit.

lazyasciiart May 26, 2025 View on HN

This sounds like a decent use case for Patreon?

beej71 Nov 9, 2015 View on HN

Sorry, you said "directly", and Patreon clearly isn't direct. But it seems to be effective.