Good f'ing luck with that.
You are barking up the *wrong* community if you think the tightwads in this joint will part with even a single satoshi if they can get it or something similar for free. That's not true of everyone here, but it definitely was my experience.
Seems like there is some sort of allergy or moral opposition to actually sending donations for mining/monitoring software around here.
Try building in an option for donation mining, that might have better luck.
Advertising a software product as free, and requesting donations as payment rarely results in you feeling truly compensated for your work; particularly in this industry. Getting mad because people aren't donating what you feel your software is worth kinda proves that you chose the wrong model.
Alternatively, convert what you have into a paid or ad supported product. Leave the existing product exactly as it is, offer an updated one via a private repo to people who 'donate'.
You simple missunderstand my situation, for me phpminer is already finished, and was already finished for about a month - 1 1/2 months or so.
I thought then ok, if i can make a bit money with my work why not. So i enhanced phpminer and hope that someone think this is worth some money. So the additional thinks i made for phpminer were just for others not for me. Some features are nice to have, some others doesn't matter for me.
There is already a donation system included, so people can really decide a specific amount of time where they will mine for me. They have a slider from 5 to 240 minutes.
I like the private paid for repo idea. I donated 1 LTC already, would probably donate again to get access to a private repo, but I can't be the only person donating. Sucks that the author has left but I do understand spending time and effort and not getting a reward is not gratifying.
I could do this, but for this, people need to donate first. I know that this will be risky for people who are the first donater, because they can not know if someone else is also donating which will tell me to do the next steps.
But I noticed, If i now say "ok i will do it" The private repo is active and i start again to develope features. But for who? Skills would be one of the user which benefits from that but others, too? That's why I would have to wait until some users donated.
What I can offer is that I start accepting pre-donations. If there are not enought donations after 3 weeks i will refund all the donations from this time.
What you think?
