We published a book in “Pay as you want” model. Here are the results.

lpelszyn 12y ago ↗

What do you think about crowd-funding further development of existing open source project? Did something like this happen?

Pay as you want for books is good idea, as long as you know what to expect. Good job on summarizing the outcome :)

sudapl 12y ago ↗

The problem is, you never know how much people will pay in this model. I wonder what are the factors that would increase average price.

kubindurion 12y ago ↗

there should be some additional mechanism, if you pay more than average than you get X

olasitarska 12y ago ↗

So it's Humble Bundle style, right? It could work if you have more than 1 item. https://www.humblebundle.com/

xamebax 12y ago ↗

rvm (an open source tool for managing your Ruby environment) had a crowd-funding campaign: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/rvm/fundraiser They collected all the cash they needed, the maintainer took a break for some time, and now they're working on the next major release.

gus_massa 12y ago ↗

> Note that Hacker News traffic is included in “(direct) / (none)”, they hide it somehow.

Why does HN hide the referer url? (How?)

chrisa 12y ago ↗

If a website using https (HN) points to a website not using https (the blog), then the referer is hidden. So it's not something HN is doing specifically, it's just because one is https and the other is not.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer

We published a book in “Pay as you want” model. Here are the results. (blog.sitarska.com)

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