Gittip, Year One — Building Gittip. I invented Gittip on Friday, May 11, 2012, while co-working with Christian Wyglendowski in Salem, Ohio. The zeroth payday was three weeks later, on Friday, June 1, and included two participants, myself and a test account. On Tuesday, June 5, Jordan Messina put us on Hacker News for the first time, and for our first payday on June 8 we had 175 total users and 12 givers.
We moved $24.80. On Saturday, June 9, I pulled $1.50 out of my pocket at the PghTechFest conference and handed it to Steve Klabnik, thus completing the Gittip cycle for the first time. Here we are, a year later. That’s not nothing. What comes next? Gittip’s goal is for people to find a living on the platform, by doing what they love and sharing their gifts with the rest of us. One of the biggest lessons I learned during the first year of Gittip is that I’m not building Gittip, I’m building a community that’s building Gittip.
On the other hand, I’m learning that microcelebrities might not be Gittip’s target users. CentUp. Patreon: Support the creators you love. Flattr - Social microdonations. Gittip.