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This is my first business venture so I was doing things very much \"by the books\" in the way of establishing…",{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"21325914","Lyfevest seems more geared towards enterprises, and the subscription will have to be EXPENSIVE to justify all-you-can-post questions. I don't think that's friendly to hobbyists…",{"value":64,"source":49,"evidence":65},"Inspired by consultancy-based funding of free software like the Python foundation",[66],{"id":67,"by":11,"text":68},"21320795","I definitely like the model that's used by the Python foundation and the like -- respecting Freedom, but making profit through consultancy. That was what kind of inspired me to…",[70],{"value":71,"source":72,"evidence":73},"Ruby","commenter",[74],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"21322369","mch82","Your site says it’s written in Ruby. Check out the OmniAuth gem for adding login providers. 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If CodeFund could be of any help ping me Justin at codefund.io",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"21320958","ganzuul","Bountysource is another interesting platform in this vein.",[104,112,119],{"value":105,"source":72,"evidence":106},"Private answers and freelance model may not fit open source funding",[107,108],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"21322233","Crinus","> making profit through consultancy This incentivizes making software that requires consultancy (or at best, disincentivizes fixing issues with the software that would lessen the…",{"value":113,"source":72,"evidence":114},"Hard to vet experts",[115],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"21321868","pnako","How do you plan to vet experts?",{"value":120,"source":72,"evidence":121},"Site colors cause eye strain",[122],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"21334832","vinayms","You should consider redesigning the website colors to spare visitors' eyes. 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