OSS Donation Platforms

Comments recommend and compare platforms like Liberapay, Gratipay (formerly Gittip), Patreon, and GitHub Sponsors for donating to and funding open-source projects.

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pbiggar Jul 31, 2012 View on HN

Try gittip - very similar. This could be a plugin for gittip.

cdancette Dec 8, 2017 View on HN

You can use liberapay (https://en.liberapay.com)

rurounijones Oct 29, 2013 View on HN

Welp there are people trying to address this, https://www.gittip.com/ for instance.

kybernetikos Oct 17, 2016 View on HN

If you haven't already come across it, you might be interested in gratipay: https://gratipay.com/

ushakov Jul 14, 2023 View on HN

Why would I use this instead of the usual ways (GitHub Sponsors, PayPal, Patreon, OpenCollective)?

zibzab Oct 13, 2021 View on HN

I'm going to setup a librapay account exactly for this purposehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberapay

blowski Jul 22, 2024 View on HN

Don't we have that with Patreon, GitHub Sponsors?

jszymborski Mar 6, 2015 View on HN

Or exactly like Gratipay (formerly gittip) https://gratipay.com/

remram Oct 21, 2021 View on HN

You mean Gratipay? https://gratipay.com/

gigatexal May 13, 2022 View on HN

find some projects that could use sponsorship via github sponsors or patreon or something else -- that's a far more useful way to give back