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by sephoric 2731 days ago
Patreon's model relies on monthly fees, which is something that philosophically I am against with software like Autumn, because it's not a continual service but a product that took a finite time to complete, so it should have a finite price. I also took counsel of someone who makes over $10k / month in monthly donations for open source work, who strongly recommends against it for personal products but encourages it for products that can benefit organizations.
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Patreon has a per-accomplishment tier, used by (e.g.) the "Pepper and Carrot" webcomic[1] to fund each page individually. You might consider that model for features...

[1] https://www.peppercarrot.com (highly recommended if your tolerance for cute/silly is high :-)

Oh, and the author's patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/davidrevoy

Thank you, I did not know about this, it looks like an interesting path worth considering.