[jwomers]

As the digital media world continues towards free (journalism first, and more recently musicians releasing their music for free) we need a new way to reward or compensate creators.

My startup, Huzza - http://huzza.io - is doing just that. It's an app that lets you tip any song or artist in the world from your phone. We like to call it pay-as-you-love, and we think it's the future of music.

[yaur]

You are collecting money on other people's behalf with no way to actually get it to them? That's kind of messed up/evil (see tip4commit and readability for example). Opt out models are hard to get right...

Tips empirically don't work and Patreon is (more than anything) a reaction to that. Its not perfect but IMO a huge step in the right direction.

[hobo_mark]

I like that, but how can you send tips as low as 50 cents (as one screenshot says) without losing it all to the payment processor (and not the musician)?

[jwomers]

Thanks! Two ways: 1) The default currency is Bitcoin, so fees are so low we can achieve this. 2) With both Bitcoin and Credit Cards, we have a topup model where you topup with, say, $3, and then can send many tips until your balance runs out. This way we amortize the fees over 6 tips instead of 1