Patreon for software developers? (Crowd funding)

[Renegade]

Anyone seen this before?

http://www.patreon.com/

It's a kind of crowd funding for regular content creators.

From the FAQ:

Who can be a creator on Patreon?

Anyone can be a creator! If you have a passion to create awesome content for your fans, you can do it on Patreon. Creators are already making:

• Youtube Videos & Channels
• Web Comics
• Blogs
• Indie Games
• Music
• Articles
• Podcasts
• Animations
• Illustrations
• Photography
• Anything you'd want to share!

It's got games there, so clearly there's a possibility, but I don't know if it would actually be practical for other devs.

Ideas? Thoughts?

[wraith808]

Yes, I support quite a few patreons myself, and had been thinking about creating my own- but more gaming related.  The programming idea is a different one...

And I don't look at this as "crowdfunding" as much as being a patron- like the museum memberships or having a patron as an artist.  Especially because you create the creation, and only at that point are the funds released.  And this can be on as periodic a schedule as can be managed- but only at those periods are the funds released.

[KynloStephen66515]

Would be nice if this would be something that could be done here at DC for Software Devs - People pledge $X/Month for Developers for certain things (I don't know how it would work...just seems DC is a logical place for these things?)