Gratipay Experiments

[mattbk]

This is one of those meta-issues that may not have a way to easily close. I'm going to use it as a place to take notes.

I've mentioned this in a few issues. What works for one project may not work for another, so we should build Gratipay as a place where you can experiment with things within your project, but also see the aggregate data for what other projects are doing as well.

• Weekly/monthly/oneoff giving
• TWYW vs even vs random
• Anon/not
• donating to basic income
• kids eat first vs. adults or smallest value first
• if funding a bundle of projects, distribution of funds: specifically allocated vs random vs even
• others?

Encourage projects to see what works for them, and track the data. Use to help projects fund themselves the best. This turns Gratipay into more than just a platform for receiving funding, it's a playground/lab for crowdfunders to analyze behavior.

• what are some metrics by which success of receiving could be measured?
• what are some metrics by which success of giving could be measured?

[chadwhitacre]

random

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[chadwhitacre]

This is one of those meta-issues that may not have a way to easily close.

Paging @techtonik! 😁

[mattbk]

random

Psychology!

• http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/03/want-to-hook-your-users-drive-them-crazy.html
• and related https://getpocket.com/a/read/1538831147

[chadwhitacre]

https://blog.mixpanel.com/2017/04/11/mixpanel-signal-launch/

[chadwhitacre]

We've looked at cohort analysis in the past.

[techtonik]

Oh, I like that. I you would allow me to bloat it a little.. =) For some reason I see it (Gratipay Experiments) as a polymer components that could be switched on and off without affecting too much of the rest of site structure.

Place each Experiment-in-the-Box with defined input data that is required from Gratipay, desired location or interface, and some docs how to turn it on and off.

I'd like to have a interface like a circle where you turn experiments on and off (checklists are boring) which will also be a voting interface. It will also answer questions like if your giving/receiving stats are public.

[techtonik]

My experiments (legalize):

• calculate tax for your country
• show your status and help you validate it
• donate to specific expenses that person registered
  • domain name
  • hosting
  • guns and drugs (a sanity test)
  • etc.?
  • isolate payment receivers to open companies? or companies with public API?

[techtonik]

Also, experiment with money-laundering - what is money laundering and what is not, how to comply with legal requirements. Ouch.. I opened the floodgate again.. )

[mattbk]

Your examples seem almost like things a project owner would run through as part of a "complete your account setup" process, to teach them dos and don'ts.

Your Experiment-in-a-Box is what I was thinking of, though. A tool that could be used to maximize income, based on the donation history available.

[mattbk]

+1 at #969 (comment) (for giving)

This is one of those choices we could build; divide money equally among X projects, or divide it up manually.

[mattbk]

Gratipay should be the "big data*" of OSS funding.

*Not really big data, but a large enough dataset to have fun with.