2019/Austin/dolladollabillz

Micropayments was a session at IndieWebCamp Austin 2019.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/dolladollabillz

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IndieWebCamp Austin 2019
Session: Micropayments
When: 2019-02-23 14:50

Participants

• 🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮 (session facilitator)
• dougbeal [looks like remote fail]
• Aaron Parecki
• Jack Jamieson
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Payment Methods

• indiepay.me
  • Requires trust/a small community
  • Exchanges (e.g. blockchain) requires more trust than is typically warranted
• Patreon and XOXO
  • Requires trust of Patreon as payment provider
  • Helps complicated reconciliation, such as A owes $5 to B, B owes $5 to C, therefore A should pay $5 to C and B requires no action
• Kickstarter
• PayPal/Venmo
• Bitcoin/Litecoin/whatevercoin/etc
• Brave Browser & BAT

Paying for Existing Content

• 🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮
  • PayPal for PDF ebook sales
  • Brave/BAT set up but not actively used

Pledging for New Content

• 🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮 via Patreon

General Sponsorship/Donations

• 🌮 Taco 🌮 Dave 🌮
  • PayPal donation button
  • Amazon wishlist
• Aaron Parecki
  • https://aaronparecki.com/tip/ - accepts donations via a few payment methods

Shared Debt Ledger

• Aaron Parecki
  • created a website to track debt between roommates in college
  • if A owes B, and B owes C, then that can transfer to A owes C
  • only works because everyone trusts each other to reconcile at the end of the month

How do you decide what to charge for or accept donations

• Aaron Parecki
  • because I have a full time job, I don't *need* to make money from the other efforts like indieweb apps, so I am happy to just accept donations for them
  • if I didn't have a job, I would look for ways to actually charge for some of them in some way

Web Payments

• API to collect credit card information
• https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/
• https://indieweb.org/payment

See Also

• 2019/Austin/Schedule
• payment
• IndieWeb for business