The Essentials in a MinuteWhere am I, and what is happening here?What is DonateOpen (or DO for short)?What should I do here, and why?For creators: what's the business case?How will I get a new audience? How does DonateOpen bring one to me?For donators: why donate on DO?For users (non-donators)For partnersWhy donate? Why give money away?Why must donations be open?Where am I, and what is happening here?What is DonateOpen (or DO for short)?What should I do here, and why?For creators: what's the business case?How will I get a new audience? How does DonateOpen bring one to me?For donators: why donate on DO?For users (non-donators)For partnersWhy donate? Why give money away?Why must donations be open?Is it ethical to display donations publicly?What is the Achievement Fair?Why do I need donation tracking?How does the dashboard help me?How do I earn on DO?How and through what does a creator earn?How does a donator earn on DO?What drives a donator's "promoter income"?What commission does DO take?Why are commissions noticeably higher on some other donation sites?How does it work?How exactly does DO bring a new audience to a creator?Why donations? Expand
For whom, and for whatCreatorsDonatorsCommunity leaders and influencersPartnersAcademics, researchers, and intellectualsWhere do I start on DO?For authorsFor donatorsFor usersFor community leaders and influencersCreatorsDonatorsCommunity leaders and influencersPartnersAcademics, researchers, and intellectualsWhere do I start on DO?For authorsFor donatorsFor usersFor community leaders and influencersFor partnersFor the first 1%For academics, researchers, and intellectuals Expand
Problem and solutionWhat is the core pain of the information society?Which of those pains does DO address?What is DO's recipe?What is DO's mission?What is DO's fundamental idea?The key insightWhat is DO's social and business breakthrough?Why donations?What is DO's technical breakthrough?How does the tandem of rankings and recommendations work?What is the core pain of the information society?Which of those pains does DO address?What is DO's recipe?What is DO's mission?What is DO's fundamental idea?The key insightWhat is DO's social and business breakthrough?Why donations?What is DO's technical breakthrough?How does the tandem of rankings and recommendations work?What does DO give you, in short?What is DO's humanist credo? Expand
For the 1%: Deep DiveWhy is DonateOpen a donation service of a different generation?What might hook me on DO? What are the upsides?For creatorsFor donatorsWhat does tracking your content consumption give you?What do donation profiles give you?How are DO's donation rankings built?What is PageRank?What's the difference between quality rankings and popularity rankings?Does DO use likes, reviews, star ratings, and other free signals in donation ranking?Why is DonateOpen a donation service of a different generation?What might hook me on DO? What are the upsides?For creatorsFor donatorsWhat does tracking your content consumption give you?What do donation profiles give you?How are DO's donation rankings built?What is PageRank?What's the difference between quality rankings and popularity rankings?Does DO use likes, reviews, star ratings, and other free signals in donation ranking?Where do donations apply?What can be the object of donation ranking?If content is popular, does that mean it deserves my attention?Why do we need complexity rankings?What's wrong with today's recommendations?Why another recommendation service, when recommendations are everywhere?What's the value of predictive content ratings?Why user expertise, when professional expertise exists?Why donations, when likes, reviews, and other non-monetary signals exist?What's wrong with likes, reviews, and the rest?Can donations themselves be gamed?What are negative donations?What do negative donations give you?How much money does it take to make a negative donation?How many negative donations can I make?Who receives a negative donation?Are negative donations counted in the rankings?The economics of donationsThe user-facing internet is awash in money, really?How much money is in the user-facing internet?How many non-utilitarian (intangible) industries, fields, and niches are there in the world?What's the financial scale of the higher-needs economy?How many authors earn from donations?How much money do content producers entering the labor markets need?How large is the podcast market?How big is the internet advertising pie?How are one-time donations different from sponsor subscriptions?What's the right way to ask for one-time donations?Which is better, one-time donations or subscriptions?Why do sponsor subscriptions dominate?Why don't people on Patreon donate for specific works?Where is more money: in sponsor subscriptions or one-time donations?What's the value of one-time donations?Why aren't one-time donations more widespread?What's the financial potential of one-time donations?How many wealthy people are there in the world?How many altruists are there in the world?Who is Homo Donaticus?What are altruism types I and II?What is altruism of type III?Key ideas, concepts, and termsWhat is adverse selection?How does adverse selection work on information markets?Where does adverse selection operate?What are the symptoms of adverse selection on information markets?Why does content cost the same?What is the paradox of value?Why user (crowdsourced, social) expertise instead of traditional expertise?Why are donations money adapted to "the digital"?What is consumer surplus?What is revealed preference?Why is value measured in money and not something else?Why are donations the future?Is it worth donating for paid services, and what's the point?What's the difference between donations and charitable giving?What's the difference between one-time donations and tips?What is classified as donations today?What does "The Money is the Double Message" mean?What is self-reputation?What is the quality of subjective time?Can a person assess the quality of their own time and express it in a donation?What is symbolic capital?Who has symbolic capital?How do you determine symbolic capital? Expand