Tipslate open for Alpha testers.

[Chris Dew]

Hi, everyone on this list is very welcome to be an Alpha tester of
Tipslate - if you can spare five minutes.

Just go to https://www.tipslate.com - enter your email address and
choose a password (5 chars+ no other restrictions). From then on,
follow the instructions.

More information about the Tipslate concept can be found at
https://www.tipslate.org/about .

You'll need to turn off popup blocking for Tipslate.

A thousand features are missing from the site and a lot of it is not a
shiny as it will be. It's GBP only at the moment, but all the code
for multi-currency is in there.

If it all falls down (which it probably will) I'll stand it back up
tomorrow.

Please contact me about any of the following problems:
1. SSL cert problems - please tell me your Browser/OS
2. Broken links - there shouldn't be any.
3. Problems viewing site on Android/iPhone (except for /slate which I
haven't figured out yet).
4. Issues about clarity of instructions - especially bookmarklets.
5. CSS issues, not Mac/Windows testing has been done yet.

Short term roadmap features:
a. Ability to add ownership of websites to your account, so that you
can receive payments.
b. Finish 'SQL FOREVER' work and add to backend. All pages based on
SQL queries will update live, as query results change. This will be
very nice.
c. AJAXy signup and login.
d. Server and client-side APIs for website owners to see if users are
Tipslate users, and if they have pledged.
e. Live league tables, most tipped URL, most generous users, etc.
f. Link other social media accounts to Tipslate accounts for extra
'reputation'.
g. Complete payment integration properly.
h. Generalise pledging to a URL (i.e. email address, VOIP, etc.)
i. Ability to use Tipslate as a bookmarks manager. If someone's page
is worth bookmarking, it's surely worth a 10p donation.

I'm especially interested in whether other people would *LIKE* to give
away small mounts of money. I have done so in the past (£5-20 here
and there to OS projects and people who've helped me), but it's so
much hassle and really not worth it for anything less than £5. That's
what I'm initially trying to solve.

Thanks for your interest,

Chris.

[Navin Kumar]

https://www.tipslate.com , tipslate.org does!

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[Chris Dew]

Yes, https://www.tipslate.org sorry.

On Apr 28, 2011 5:00 PM, "Navin Kumar" <n...@vain.in> wrote:

https://www.tipslate.com , tipslate.org does!

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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Chris Dew <chri...@barricane.com> wrote: > > Hi, everyone on t...

[John Robson]

why does your blog claim it is May?

Can I just clarify a couple of questions:

 - Do webmasters have to register with you, or will you somehow be contacting them

 - Google Chrome doesn't have an obvious bookmark bar for the bookmarklet - I believe that newer IE's are emulating chrome?

 - You're aiming to just scrape interest between payments and some minimum value being paid to webmasters?

Sounds like a good plan - if I can get it to work on Chrome...

[John Robson]

Works well in Firefox/Ubuntu (Certificate issues aside)

Not quite spotted how to deal with Chrome.

Not yet looked at windows or mobile platforms.

Question:

 - Do subdomains etc get aggregated?

Feature suggestions.

 - Ability to adjust pledges (even if up only) before clearing the slate

 - Links from the slate to the site in question, and a timestamp indication of when the pledge was made?

 - Bookmarklets which default to a certain value to make a one step process? (I'd click on the same space a couple of times fo larger pledges)

[Chris Dew]

I forgot to update mysql-native package on the live server, after I fixed a bug.  Just emailing from my phone, I'll write properly later.

All the best,

Chris.

On Apr 28, 2011 10:37 PM, "John Robson" <jo...@dawnlink.ltd.uk> wrote:

why does your blog claim it is May?

Can I just clarify a couple of questions:

 - Do webmasters have to register with you, or will you somehow be contacting them

 - Google Chrome doesn't have an obvious bookmark bar for the bookmarklet - I believe that newer IE's are emulating chrome?

 - You're aiming to just scrape interest between payments and some minimum value being paid to webmasters?

Sounds like a good plan - if I can get it to work on Chrome...

On 28 April 2011 17:18, Chris Dew <cms...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, https://www.tipslate.org sor...

[Chris Dew]

Thanks for the feedback, responses below.

All the best,

Chris,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:07 PM, John Robson <jo...@dawnlink.ltd.uk> wrote:

Works well in Firefox/Ubuntu (Certificate issues aside)

Will get a non-free certificate before Beta testing starts.

 

Not quite spotted how to deal with Chrome.

My chrome has a bookmarks bar.  Perhaps I manually enabled this.

 

Not yet looked at windows or mobile platforms.

Question:

 - Do subdomains etc get aggregated?

No, but a webmaster may claim all their subdomains with a wildcard.  i.e. *.mysite.com/

Feature suggestions.

 - Ability to adjust pledges (even if up only) before clearing the slate

Yes, will implement.

 

 - Links from the slate to the site in question, and a timestamp indication of when the pledge was made?

Yes, will implement.

 

 - Bookmarklets which default to a certain value to make a one step process? (I'd click on the same space a couple of times fo larger pledges)

That was my initial implementation, but I changed it to a popup because I thought people wouldn't want two or three Tipslate popups crowding their bookmarks toolbar, 

[Chris Dew]

Hi John,

More responses below.

All the best,

Chris.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:37 PM, John Robson <jo...@dawnlink.ltd.uk> wrote:

why does your blog claim it is May?

Can I just clarify a couple of questions:

 - Do webmasters have to register with you, or will you somehow be contacting them

One (i.e. I don't want whois to think I'm a spammer) email will be sent out to the whois contacts at the time of the first pledge,

The amount of pledges/payments pending for any url will be publicly visible with both a query form and a 'top ten' list.

Pledges/payments are tree structured.

facebook.com £16.20

facebook.com/joesmith £10.00

facebook.com/fredbloggs £6.20

facebook.com/fredbloggs/myband £6.00

facebook.com/fredbloggs/myphotos 20p

To validate that it is their domain, they will need to place a small (reddit/delicious/digg-style) icon on the url at the level they wish to claim.  Claimable money should motivate this action.

There will also, eventually be a 30/70 host/user split for user-generated content sites, such as GitHub, Reddit and similar.  Getting one of these to adopt Tipslate would be an absolutely huge success.

 

 - Google Chrome doesn't have an obvious bookmark bar for the bookmarklet - I believe that newer IE's are emulating chrome?

Chrome plugin on it's way.  I've looked at the docs and it looks like about a days work.

 

 - You're aiming to just scrape interest between payments and some minimum value being paid to webmasters?

Initially.  I want Tipslate 'donations' to bootstrap a micropayments system which can (much later) be more   profitably monetised for Tipslate pay-per-view type content on webpages.  If I can get to a target of a 1000 users, then I will probably have also thought up some other ways to make money.

 

Also, websites which don't quickly/ever claim their payments will sit on the accounts as outstanding creditors, helping cashflow and keeping down tax.

[John Robson]

Good re the aggregate claiming - also the 70/30 split...

Although how you deal with a 70/30 claim process I really don't know - thinking about places like expert sex change the user who generated the content could be hard to acsertain/find (although finding them is a lesser problem for your cashflow model :))