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microPledge: Funding Software by Pledging to Donate Money

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Interesting idea.. More formal version of the kind of thing we do in our Coding Snacks section.

Have an idea? Just need funding?
Want to join with others to support to an idea?
This site is for you.

FEES:
License fee:
Open source license: Free.
Closed source license: 3% of each progress payment.
Proprietary license: 6% of each progress payment.
Quitting a project early: 10% of your earnings so far; microPledge will pledge the fee to the project so it can be earned by any subsequent developer.
Refunds. Unless you are doing open source, you must refund all your earnings back to pledgers if you don’t finish the project. Either that or you must release your source.
Upload cap: for project releases above 10MB, $0.20 per MB in excess.
Incubator: $20 basic fee. Challenges cost $60 per hour of arbitration after the first hour.

http://micropledge.com/

I hope services like this succeed and that this will become a viable way of funding software in the future.
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