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by johnsimer 2531 days ago
what about letting your users get a % of all the money from collected from users they invite?

They could either receive those as Stripe payouts, or further reinvest their earnings into curing global warming

i.e. cure global warming MLM style

This could also open up some nice customer acquisition strategies benefit from asymmetric motivation: teenagers/kids bunch of teenagers (who would spend hours persuading their rich parents /grandparents to donate $50/mo, such that in return the teenager earns $5/mo). This may be able to help mitigate the problem that older people are less likely to believe in the severity of global warming than younger people - in the same way that your grandma bought your magazine in 5th grade (so that you could win a prize, not because she actually cared about the magazine) as part of those gamified magazine fundraisers in elementary school

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This is very clever, we might try that. Thanks for sharing!
would love to schedule a call with you to see if there is any pro-bono help I could do. I've thought about a couple creative solutions w.r.t to donation psychology, and have actually pitched ideas similar to Wren before at events. I do full stack web dev and have a couple of ideas for visualizations/UX that may help increase donation/referral behavior

http://calendly.com/johnsimerlink