Product Radar 22

[gratipay-bot]

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Docs

http://inside.gratipay.com/howto/sweep-the-radar

Mission

The mission of the product team is to design and implement solutions to the problems identified by the marketing team.

Scope

• https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com
  • translation (docs)
• https://github.com/gratipay/grtp.co
• https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay-everywhere
• https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay-badge

Roadmap

1. Finish cleaning up from the Gratipocalypse:
   1. Decouple (IG)
   2. Finish Team Basics
   3. Pivot
2. Knock pay-what-you-want out of the park:
   1. Make Widgets 2.0
   2. Tighten Onboarding Flow
   3. Solve Corporate Sponsorship of Open-Source
3. Knock take-what-you-want out of the park:
   1. Implement an AML Program
   2. Expand Take-What-You-Want Beyond Gratipay

Color code:

• red—external forces that we're under
• green—product development tasks

[techtonik]

While this automation is kind of exciting, it looks somewhat cold, lacking a human touch. But more important - it is not clear at all what is going on without a through multi-day reading about Gratipocalypse and stuff.

How about we just concentrate on making movie or animation about the usage story, starting with most simple cartoon and then evolve it as more details appear?

I'd start with just giving money to some person by his GitHub. And then expand on different complications.

1. How you send money. How the money travels - bitcoin is immediate, banks are intermediaries that change their charges without you knowing, and there are another ways.

1.1. Some way or sending money are illegal. How come that doing good things is illegal?

2. How can you receive money.

2.1. What is different from just receiving money and receiving money for your job? Why you may want to pay taxes? How can you actually pay taxes if you want? How not paying taxes makes you illegal and why?

There are more deep stories about the whole process.

1. There is a need to just send somebody something to show your support, being it goods, thanks, sympathy or money as equivalent. There are many ways to do this, but all of them complicated and not public. You can see how much people have gathered anonymously for some cause (like PSF). The support is not infinite - it is not market capitalism - so knowing if demand is met is a critical component to let the surplus of resources to flow further.

It actually covers more stories, which are better be learned as an interactive guide how to support specific people in open source world. "Sometimes you appreciate the work that people do on open source projects, and you don't have much, but some little sum of money that you think these people deserve. Maybe they deserve more, but nobody knows about it, so the most you should be able to do is give them at least your bit, that may not be much as absolute value, and that will show others your support at whole."

2. "Give or receive" dilemma. If you don't have enough to cover you basic needs, you can't give back anything. And those "basic needs" are different for many people. If I "hard earned" something and not getting enough, I want people to give me more, and I don't want to give out anything. Call it greed or something. And no people have basic needs covered to share the surplus, the world of gratitude ends, and the world of greed starts. One way from here is to have an alternative resource called "mana" that is given to you as granted for just being a human who cares about others.

[chadwhitacre]

Folding into #821 per #828.