Patreon: Kind of like Kickstarter, only more long term with guaranteed content.

[Vitalius]

Hi guys,

Patreon is a website for content creators to have a venue to make their content profitable in some way, except that it is not technically profit as you do not pay for the content.

Essentially, the way it works it as such:

• You make an account.
• Enter your details (information for paying the pledge such as CC information) along with whatever you want to add to your profile.
• You find an artist you like who does something you are interested in such as making videos to teach you a foreign language, creating music, drawing pictures/paintings, making comic books, or reviewing movies and such.
• Then you pledge to donate $X per piece of content they produce (a video, a song, a painting, a comic, a review, etc).
• At the end of the month, however many pieces of content they have made decides how much you pledge (you can create a hard cap on the total you give per month) and it is charged to you. 

You can offer to pledge anywhere from $0.25 per piece of content to whatever crazy amount you decide. Say they produce 5 [insert content]. Then you would be charged $1.25 at the end of the month and it would be given to them as a donation type thing. You receive the content regardless, so it is not exactly a subscription service. It is more like a hybrid between donations and subscription. 

This is a donation platform to enable you to directly give to content creators rather than having to go through other means such as simply watching their videos on Youtube. The idea is that you pledging money will make them more motivated and give them more time to create the content you want. 

You can cancel your pledge any time, so if you feel they are not creating what you want, you can do so. 

A friend of mine over at his website recently made it known to me and I thought it was pretty cool, so I wanted to share it with the forum. 

Thanks,
Vitalius

[whatthe_fuzz]

Never heard of this but I like it

Its like a profitable soundcloud! Definitely will be grabbin some stuff off of it soon