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mk  ·  3241 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 13, 2016

I noticed that too. I was wondering if the last person to donate did it on purpose.





kleinbl00  ·  3241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tellin' ya, dude. You've made like triple your money in the past 24 hours and the cell phone battery has gone from 4% to 5%.

BREAK IT DOWN MONTHLY.

mk  ·  3241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We could try that. $200 at 27px high is $7.4 per pixel.

Do you think it would encourage people to break donations up? We lose more money to Stripe that way, but it if encourages people to donate more, then it could be worth it.

I also wonder if it would cause donation fatigue, like the damn thing just won't stay full, so to hell with it.

kleinbl00  ·  3241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Considering how much you mess with things, try messing with this.

Also, set it so that I can do a monthly. People love that monthly shit.

mk  ·  3241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, if we can couple recurring monthly donations with a monthly goal, then I think it would work well.

mk  ·  3241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think we will do that. Not only that, on the donation page, we can line up all the months of the year to show if we hit our goals. 12 month bars, and one year bar.

goobster  ·  3241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just spitballing an idea here... what about Patreon? We subscribe to give you $x/mo, and you keep doing Hubski if we can get to $2500/yr, or $215/mo?

It's a piddling amount to gather via Patreon (some artists pull in several grand a month), and it is a unique funding model, for a unique community, that could result in huge benefits to you personally if this whole Hubski thing works out. ;-)

byonic  ·  3241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's a larger site that has a daily donation goal, which they seem to have no problem making.

It would be interesting to see if a different version of the bar encourages users to donate more.

Does Hubski have any A/B testing?

mk  ·  3241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Does Hubski have any A/B testing?

Only sequentially. It's A, B testing. :)