Difference between revisions of "Mudlet Sponsorship Plan"

Revision as of 21:26, 15 July 2019

Priority	Cost (yearly)	Cost (total)	Description
1	100 $	100 $	Apple code signing certificate
2a	500 $	600 $	Windows code signing certificate from digicert for 1 year
2b	475 $	575 $	Alternatively: Windows code signing certificate from digicert for 2 years
2c	400 $	500 $	There are more vendors listed, for example Certum at 360 € for 1 year
3	300 $	900 $	Additional windows CI job (would possibly allow us to create 64-bit windows binaries without delay, appveyor charges $25 per additional job per month)
4	?	?	Additional travis (macOS?) CI jobs (we'd need to contact travis support for a quote)
?	100 $	1000 $	Steam store listing? Cost seems to be one-time only. This may make obsolete the Windows and Apple store investments.
?	20 - 100 $	1100 $	Windows store listing? Cost seems to be one-time only. Cheaper price is for individual persons, higher for organisations. Not sure which fits. Guessing the latter.
?	?	?	Apple store listing?
?	?	?	Bounties for complicated projects?
?	?	?	UX critique from a professional? For example, let the connections screen become more "game like" instead of looking like a business app. Give Mudlet a fresher user experience after all these years :)
?	?	?	macOS is about to make it harder to publish there, as you have to [submit your software to their servers] to be scanned and notarized. This will be required by default for all software beginning in macOs 10.15

$1: Discord role
$5: Private Q&A channel with devs. Participate in polls
~~$10: Stickers~~ (we'd need to design and order them first)
$15: Coding livestreams topic selection (regularly, different topics, livestreams open to all)
$25: Discord cool role
$50: Mentioning on about page. Demonnic will turn you a pen on his lathe.

2 $
- Discord supporter role
- Access private Q&A channel
4 $
- Get listed on "About tab" (and Mudlet website both?)
- Participate in polls
8 $
- Suggest small topic for livestream
- Get listed on "About tab" in bold
16 $
- Discord advanced supporter role
- Ability to join and speak in livestream
- Get listed on "About tab" in bold with additional message in a tool-tip (need to ponder advertisements though)
- Mudlet pen (limited offer only)
32 $
- Request large topic for extensive tutorial video
- Get listed on "About tab" in bold with tool-tip and listed above lower supporters

1 $ - Discord title & user name colored (starting here, have them at every tier)
2 $ - Access to exclusive patreon content
3 $ - Shout out on twitter
5 $ - Participate in polls
8 $ - Private discord channel
13 $ - Improved Discord user name color
21 $ - Topic suggestion
34 $ - About page mention
55 $ - Pen (start lower as exclusive offer at the beginning)

Interesting ideas:

Discord role (or multiple tiered)
Private Q&A channel with devs
- Alternatively a half-public channel, in that all can read answers, but not all can write
~~Stickers~~ (we'd need to design and order them first)
livestreams
- regularly
- different topics
  - Coding
  - Mudlet
  - scripts
Mentioning on about page
- Have this tiered as well? For example like this
- Mention name
- Mention name and image
- Mention name, image and tool-tip shown on mouse-over
- Mention name, image, tool-tip and be clickable/link somewhere (no 18+)
Posters (same caveat as stickers above)

Anti-ideas we are not implementing:

Keneanung checked out other platforms that Github supports - none are all that popular and Patreon had the lowest fees.
- which ones were checked? --> The ones mentioned in https://help.github.com/en/articles/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository#about-funding-files - That is: CommunityBridge, GitHub Sponsors, IssueHunt, Ko-fi, Liberapay, Open Collective, Otechie, Patreon, Tidelift

don't want anyone to feel left out - Mudlet is gonna be free, and we're not doing this to make people without money feel bad (practically speaking the amount that'll care will not be high, but still!)

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