Was having a conversation with a friend and came to a conclusion: The problem with Patreon is there's a "hump" you have to get over where below $N the Patreon comes with obligations, but is not making enough money yet to fund you to meet the obligations. Therefore Patreon should have a mode, or there should be a Patreon/Kickstarter fusion somewhere, where people pledge to pay you $Y a month but it doesn't start withdrawing until the total pledge amount to the project goes over $N
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@Cheeseness @mcc I'm gonna at least slightly disagree. Maybe it comes down to exactly how things are set up (and I've never had anybody give me money through Patreon before) but there are several creators I kick a 5 or 10 to monthly, quite happily, hoping they will occasionally be able to post their art, whatever form that takes. And they needn't produce monthly for that to work (for me anyway).
I don't want those folks to have to satisfy a big crowd to get any funding at all.
@ChateauErin @mcc I can totally get that. I guess my perspective is that there is no single model that's going to be a good fit, and there are currently lots of options for recurring month-in-advance patronage (sadly, Patreon were the only platform offering month-in-arrears that I know of and they removed that yesterday).
Ko-fi's neat in that it supports recurring pledges, one-off donations, *and* sales on one platform, and creators can pick what does/doesn't work for them
@Cheeseness @mcc That is indeed a great idea! It might even be better than the Kickstarter model, which occasionally bankrupts creators who have priced just one of their rewards at slightly below what the cost turns out to be. "I have a million backers! I'm rich... wait... no, actually I'm ruined"
@mcc That would be great. I feel like recurring "kickstarter" style crowdfunding options would be great.
Not quite the same, but until yesterday, Patreon had a billing model where people could pledge per creation, so supporters only got charged when you released something. I'd always intended to switch to that and scale my works to match the support I'd received if needed. Felt like a good way of making sure everybody's up front and has opportunity to back out if things aren't going as expected