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Welcome to the Web Monetization Community

Welcome to the Web Monetization Community! 👋

hello there

This is our welcome thread. In this thread you can:

  1. Feel free to introduce yourself! Let us know where you're from, what you do for work, and share an interesting fact about yourself if you'd like.

  2. Welcome other folks as they join the community!

  3. Tell us what excites you most about web monetization. 🙌

p.s. If you are a Grant for the Web grantee, follow the instructions on this page to join your project's organization. Afterward, go set up your payment pointer via settings here. Have questions? Go here!

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Alen Abraham

Hey folks! My name is Alen.

I'm from India. As for web monetization, I'm most excited about personal payment pointers. I love that community members who create content can receive payment for their work.

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Sam

I'm Sam the CEO and cofounder of Syncify.fm from London.

We're building a social network for audio allowing listeners to connect over podcasts and engage with each other and communities. For podcast creators we are giving them tools to monetize their audience without relying on ads.

Fun fact - I'm the Burrito Eating Champion of Bristol and still hold the record time

Web Monetization excites me because of the amount of creators I know who deserve to have easier ways to take payments. This could help unlock so much more creative talent. (not just podcasters but artists, poets, musicians etc...)

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Jemima Gibbons

Hey everyone!
I'm in the process of drafting our first grant report :)
Just so I can add to our Trello, please remind me how many grant reports we need to deliver and approx when?
Many thanks,
Jemima (Design Club: Reboot)

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Erika

Hi @jemima . Grantees are required to file a progress report at around the project's 2/3 mark, and a final report within 30 days of the project's end date.

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Jemima Gibbons

Great - thanks Erika. I see that's in the Grantee FAQ, which I've now read properly. But thanks again!

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Dee Saigal • Edited

Hi everyone!
My name is Dee, and I’m the CEO and Creative Director of Erase All Kittens - a web-based adventure game designed to inspire kids, especially young girls, to code and create. EAK works in a different way to other coding tools, in that players need to hack into the game's source code in order to build and fix levels as they play (in HTML and CSS, so far!). My team and I are really excited to be a part of this community, exploring ways that we can help build a fairer internet for creators.
Good luck with your projects! :)

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Sam

Hi Dee,

Erase All Kittens is an awesome project! I love what you're doing.

I run growthmindsetpodcast.com and was had been planning to reach out to you for a while. (regular top ten for self-improvement). If you're interested I'd love to interview you?

Sam

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Mesgana

Hi Everyone,

My team and I are new to this web monetization technology, but we see its potential for various animation projects...

At some point will be good to have a place on the community space, where people with various content development , animation, other technical skills can profile themselves for cross collaboration ...

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Alan Dent

Hi Everyone

I'm Alan, I was awarded a Spark level grant to integrate WM into Teddy Story, my side project to publish children's stories. My day job is in central IT in a university here in New Zealand, but I don't usually write code so its been a fun learning experience.

After a couple of months working on it I finally pushed the button on my first release last night... and then this morning I went back and corrected all the DNS settings I'd got wrong :) Now the link up there actually works!

I'm still catching my breath after getting the site live, so will shift some focus onto organising what I found/learned and writing something up about that next. I do just want to say that working with the WM technologies has been great so far, haven't had any real issues (that weren't located between the keyboard and the chair).

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Thomas Bnt

Thanks ! 😄

I'm Thomas from France 👋🏼
I really liked the Web Monetization system. I using since the Grant For the web Hackathon by DEV and Grant For The Web (of course).

You can see here all candidates and more informations about this Hackathon.

You can check my post on DEV for my participation. 🦖

It's on my Open Source project, for the Awesome suite : Awesome Web Monetization.

GitHub logo thomasbnt / awesome-web-monetization

🕶️ Stuffs about Web Monetization. Packages, articles, documentation links and others tools.

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Awesome Web Monetization Awesome

Awesome stuffs about Web Monetization. Learn more, check modules and others tools.

Web Monetization is a web service that allows you to send money directly in your browser This is a JavaScript browser API that allows the creation of a payment stream from the user agent to the website

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About Web Monetization


How to start monetize my website

If you would like to monetize your content, you must have a Wallet and Provider account. See below the platforms that…

Don't hesitate to participating and share everywhere ! 💚

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Casey Herd • Edited

Hi everyone!

My name is Casey Herd. Im the director of Ballet Rising, a media project about the growing popularity of classical ballet around the world. We hope to bring the glpoabl dance community closer together by reaching out to people and communities in the most unlikely places. I've been interested in web monetization for a long time and hope to build on this technology for the benefit of the performing arts. Im really excited to be a part of this community as we build a more fair and equitable internet for all content creators on the web. Cheers!

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Zack

Hi all! I work in media production and content creation. I'm currently working on a platform which I intend to heavily integrate with micropayments and web monetization (Interledger), among other technologies.

I'm looking forward to getting to know you all and to working together to create a new paradigm.

Thank you!

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Janos Farkas

I watched The Ataxian trailer from your company. It has made me emotional. Congratulations, very well done!

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Zack

Thank you for checking it out! Happy that it had an impact! :D

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Michiel de Jong

Hi! I'm Michiel de Jong, working on LedgerLoops, which is federated bookkeeping on top of personal data stores. In particular, I will be working on Monetizing the User-Centric Read-Write Web with Solid, adding WebMonetization to Node-Solid-Server, Solid OS, and Darcy! :)

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Achim Wagenknecht

Hi! 👋

My name is Achim. I'm from the beautiful and heavily underestimated city of Wuppertal in Germany. I'm a journalist and I specialize in open source. I like hot spicy asian food.

I'm the founder of RoundOF (roundof.org), a social network with social funding.
RoundOF is chargeable based on a gift economy: members grant each other periods of membership. It's like a drinking round. No one pays for themselves on RoundOF – you can't. In gift economies timing is critical: How long do you wait to return a favour? WM would allow me to set much shorter and cheaper periods of membership and therefore intensify the social interactions of giving.

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Becks Boone

I'm Becks Boone (they/them), making the transition from software developer to product manager. I'm living in Boulder CO USA. I like to say "living" instead of "from" because I don't consider myself from anywhere, lol. I'm a US citizen who grew up in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, then moved around the US as an adult.

I'm interested in how web monetization might be applied to the traditional nonprofit fundraising model. At Food Rescue Alliance, we're exploring ways to incorporate it into our open source multitenancy software.

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Janos Farkas

Hi everyone!

I am excited to be a part of this community and looking forward to building relationships with you.

Our company CLink Media is building an interoperable infrastructure for asserting attribution and rights information, tools for legitimate reuse of digital content, and peer-to-peer monetization without third-party intermediaries. See our first post here.

Please reach out with any questions, comments you may have.

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Joep Meindertsma

Hi everyone! My name is Joep, and I'll be working on linking the Interledger spec to Solid (personal data) servers to enable monetizing data! We're expecting to share knowledge and spec suggestions in this github repo.

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Sam

This sounds really cool. Checked out the repo. How is the project going?

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Joep Meindertsma

Currently working on the design and setting up project architecture! Do you also have plans on linking with the Solid ecosystem?

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Sam

Considering it. Hence my interest!

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Josh Senyak

Hi all. Josh here from El Cerrito, CA. I received a mid-level GFTW grant to build Tembo, a WordPress plugin that lets users build database applications as WordPress plugins - web monetized naturally. Would love to connect with others who have an interest in WordPress development and/or open source software process.

I'm very new to monetization, so I look forward to getting your wisdom when I ask clueless questions in coming months.

The website for the Tembo project is tembo-plugin.com. Other grantees might appreciate my latest post, "How did we get here?" Let me know!