liberapay.com

Not really, but support for Taler could be implemented in Liberapay. If someone is able and willing to tackle that, there's a possibility of funding the work with an EU grant: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com/issues/1309#issue...

Last time I checked into this, the answer was no. This is very much a more EU-focused service, based on the stuff they offer. And even then, they don't pre-collect for VAT like Patreon does. (I just checked and couldn't get a definitive answer but since it's been 5 years [1] since there was any update on a ticket requesting the ability to offer invoices in PDF form of your monthly receivables, my gut instinct says the answer is still, "no") [1]: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com/issues/714

I don't know what the requirements are, maybe you need to be open source non profit something, but by far the easiest-to-use alternative I've seen is https://liberapay.com/ (imagine your bank or paypal were open source: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com ) I am not affiliated in any way, but I funded K9 mail through this, F-Droid, Matrixdotorg, and presumably more projects in the future. It's so pain-free, just put in any amount, your details (IBAN, address), check the box to authorize the direct debit, done. No account needed, but you can check your history by "logging in" which just emails you a one-time login link. It's also transparent about how much the beneficiary is already receiving, so it doesn't feel like you're all dumping money into a black hole with no idea if it's way too little or already a decent amount (and you ca

On a code specific sidenote there's LibrePay which is open source under CC0. This might be a good starting point code wise. If you do make a profit off their codebase I advise you donate some back to them, but you're under no obligation to do so, likewise with any code improvements, but again no obligation. I know you're asking more business geared questions, but figure it wouldn't hurt to mention. The only thing is LibrePay doesn't take a cut, not sure if you'd have to go out of your way to implement that 'cut' into the service. But reading about their setup might guide you towards what you do need to do in order to start your service. I am no lawyer, financial or other kind of expert (just a lowly Software Engineer on HN), just pointing out availability options. https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com

From https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com/issues/1383: > Liberapay cannot protect anyone from the decisions of underlying payment processors, not even itself (https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-is-in-trouble-b5...).

As others have pointed out, platforms to fund work on open source projects already exist, and the best part is: they're open source themselves, so you can contribute! In fact I was the top developer of Gratipay for a year myself, and now I've created a fork called Liberapay (the reasons were the legal difficulties Gratipay faced in the US, and the decision its founder made to turn it into a non-neutral platform). Links: https://liberapay.com/ https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com (Python) https://gratipay.com/ https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com (Python) https://salt.bountysource.com/ https://github.com/bountysource/core (Ruby) https://snowdrift.coop/ (not operational) https://git.snowdrift.coop/sd/snowdrift (Haskell)