Flossbank

@cassidoo Ahhh that's the dream! Thanks for demoing Cassidy!

@cami_williams Thanks Cami! I'm glad you like it

@jesmith Great question James - we distribute donations based on your installs each month. Whenever your donation is processed each month, we create an "install map" of your installs from the month before and their associated weights. Then we break up the donation according to the map, and distribute the donation!

@jesmith @joel_wasserman_ Does it use GitHub Sponsors or something to get the money to the maintainers?

@jesmith @cassidoo We're working on the maintainer portal now but it'll use Stripe payouts :)

@joel_wasserman_ Please let me know once the maintainer portal is done, is there any way a maintainer can onboard his/her library to this platform now?.

@gautamkrishnar Not yet! We need some early adopters so we'll be in touch soon!

@clydedsouza Yes! Need to see enough buy in for js package managers and then we'll wrap nuget, cargo, poetry, pip, etc

@joel_wasserman_ Awesome. Looking forward to that! ✔

@doomhammer Totally! And we actually have a "donate instead" option. However only being able to donate as a means of "giving back" creates a significant financial barrier. By introducing ads we enable "giving back" to happen for free, as soon as someone starts to code, whether in school, a bootcamp, or at a young age. I'd encourage you to try it out, the ads are super non invasive (text only, only during download of packages). I actually have been thinking of the ads as more of a tech newsletter where we compile a lot of great new tools we've stumbled upon, and then some just happen to be promoted or "sponsored"

@joel_wasserman_ thank you very much for your clarification. It's great to know that you also consider other options besides ads.

@sprajosh no data! we hate ad networks, the only reason we introduced ads was so people without financial means could still give back. All that to say is our CLI is open source so all code can be checked out here: github.com/flossbank/cli - and without digging, we just send up what package manager was used, a timestamp, and the top level packages (so we can distribute the ad revenue!)

@sprajosh oh also the CLI version so in case of a bug we can debug it

@joel_wasserman_ I checked your FAQ and saw your project on Github. Sounds really nice. Started using it yesterday. It works like a charm with 0 distractions and changes in the normal workflow. Hope you guys do well!!