I’ve been looking for a service like this for ages that does the following:
- Allows a developer or “creator” to create a “project page” with details. Projects can be as small (solve a minor GitHub issue) or as large (port a company’s Eurorack modules) as needed.
- Patrons can promise funding of project upon completion. Either they enter their payment info immediately, or promise to provide it upon completion.
- Funding is awarded to creator when creator claims they have released the feature/bug fix/project.
- No patron rewards or stretch goals. Once funded to X amount, no additional funding is allowed. (This is an optional requirement, willing to loosen the definition a bit.)
This is different from Kickstarter, IndieGogo, etc because tasks would generally be much smaller, they wouldn’t require approval from the service (but instead rely on the creator’s brand reputation), and most importantly, funding would not be claimed after X months but instead after completion of the “deliverable” detailed on the project page, whether it’s 2 days or 5 years.
Something like this would be ideal for your proposal. It would also be ideal for VCV to priorize certain features that I can’t justify spending general Rack funding on. (e.g 14 bit midi in 1.0?) Has anyone seen any service close to this concept?