@RJDan said:
It would be good if these pledges could be 'cashed out' by you without actually turning into money just yet. I guess a lot like virtual currency. If people could donate these pledges for apps they use or projects they support. The projects/apps could then exchange this currency within the community as a way of paying for the time of developer etc.
Users can use the currency to keep tabs on the benefit they get from the community efforts ... and eventually put money to 'buy out' any pledges.
Sounds a bit like crypto .... But less cryptic.
The problem is that what a developer needs in most cases, to invest more of his time to open-source, is not another app/opensource project, but to have to eat, have a shelter, have some clothes, participate to certain social events, possibly travel, ect.... And weather we want it or not, in this world it currently requires money.
I would like a way to keep tabs on how much I 'should' pay for the effort of the developers.
I'm currently making a video to explain more the concept. In fund-my-app you should not think in terms of how much I 'should' pay for the effort of the developers. But rather you should think in terms of how much I'm willing to give if this feature is done.
Because keep in mind that even if you do a pledge of 5 euros for a feature, maybe a lot of other people will also make a pledge for this feature ( this is crowd funding ). And on top of that, the developer then is the one who will chose if the total amount is enough to motivate them to work on this feature or not.
Also different features can be in competition, and then it's a "vote with your wallet" concept, in the sense that the feature with more pledge will probably be worked on with higher priority than the feature with less pledge.
