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So... I'm choosing between Ko-Fi and Patreon for a contribution/patronage platform. Thoughts?

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Nov 3 '22, 09:17

The Ko-Fi Gold plan lets me choose a different metaphor besides coffee, and it also allows monthly donations or monthly tiered memberships. For what I have in mind, I'd be leaning toward tiered memberships as a replacement for manually implementing subscription models & logic on the tiny developer-focused utilities I'm planning on building.

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patreon has a lot of name recognition... -- nm - colin Nov 3, 10:03
"Go in the direction that opens before you." Whichever works best for you is fine with me. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 3, 09:47
There's a third option, GitHub sponsorships, but A) that's Microsoft, and B) my idea for moving forward on this is broader than just coding -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 09:36
Which one gets me Avatars that aren't from the movie Avatar? -- nm - Spawn S.I. Nov 3, 09:30 3
- You mean like Aang and Katara? -- nm - Sub-baroner Nov 3, 09:38
- Win the powerball for me and I'll build a metaverse that doesn't suck. There's your avatars. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 09:32 1
  - Zucks 60 billion laughs at your 500m after tax capitalization -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 3, 11:40
I know that Patreon takes a significant cut of donations, don't they? - JaxSean Nov 3, 09:29 1
- Patreon takes up to 12%, and that's not counting the payment provider's fees. It does deliver a lot of value in exchange for that, to be fair. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 09:31
One platform is familiar to me, the other is not. -- nm - Mop Nov 3, 09:20 2
- They're both familiar to me, but Patreon obviously has a lot more cachet (and is more popular amongst YouTubers) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 3, 09:24 1
  - Notably, Ko-Fi doesn't handle the money, that goes directly through stripe. Patreon doesn't support stripe, and they do handle the money. - Beryllium Nov 3, 09:26

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