• Getting Paid the Open Source Way

    pjhyett May 05

    This afternoon we’re rolling out the ability for every public project on GitHub to, dare I say, make money. You’re now one click away from adding a Pledgie badge to any of your projects. Pledgie is a great service offering a simple and effective way to donate money to a cause worthy of your hard-earned dollars.

    Turning it on is as simple as entering in your Paypal email on your repository’s edit screen:

    After doing that, you’ll see one of these guys hanging out in your repo’s detail box:

    That’s all there is to it, the money goes directly to your account. Don’t feel shy asking for donations, you worked hard for it!

    • Comments

    • up_the_irons about 2 hours later

      Awesome! :)

    • drnic about 3 hours later

      Champion plan. Now I just need to get people to:
      i) Use my projects
      ii) Actually like them
      iii) Hand over gobs of cashola
      Oooh yeah.

    • drnic about 4 hours later

      i) Can you include the pledgie id in the API, then I can add the pledgie html to the github badge?
      ii) Would it be cool to set up the donations email centrally from our Accounts page, and have it: a) update existing projects, b) set the donations email for new projects/forks?

    • pjhyett about 5 hours later

      @drnic
      i) yea, that sounds reasonable
      ii) i thought about doing a global setup, but it’s presumptuous to think everyone will want all of their projects to be donate-able.

    • dpetersen about 5 hours later

      1. Create a project on GitHub.
      2. ???
      3. Profit.

    • drnic about 9 hours later

      @pj – re: (ii) – if the user sets a value then you could presume they want to set that value for all projects; if they don’t set a value then you could preseume they don’t want to set the pledgie email value for all projects. Perhaps.

    • pjhyett about 10 hours later

      @dpetersen
      2. Activate your Pledgie badge

    • heavysixer about 19 hours later

      As one of the Pledgie developers would like any input on how we can make our service more profitable for people using it through github. So idea’s like the one from drnic are always welcome.

    • up_the_irons 1 day later

      Having the Pledgie badge automatically appear in drnic’s github badge would be awesome!

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