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by webmaven 1659 days ago
> To answer your question, the difference from kickstarter is that grants for public goods don't produce products - they produce public goods.

There are Patreons that work like that, where the work being funded gets released publicly (for example, Evil Hat Games was releasing Fate RPG books as "pay what you want" downloads on RPGDriveThrough. Patrons just got early access and similar privileges). Reminiscent of the Street Performer Protocol: https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/1998/11/the_stree...