this is... very interesting
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So I’m honestly kinda surprised other types of sponsored content stuff doesn’t happen on github sponsors bc github literally doesn’t take a cut at all - is this just not a known thing?
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This was the best part, which is long gone:
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It's still by far the best crowdfunding platform but getting 5000 USD from GitHub simply by being approved and getting people to shift their donations there was amazing.
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When they launched GitHub Sponsors, they had a limited time promotion of matching up to 5000 USD of donations in your first year. That's likely a major part of why they were so strict with the approval process early on since it would have been easy for that to be heavily abused.
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My only negative experience with it was really with Stripe. It was a hassle to get Stripe to put money into my Canadian USD bank account, which is important since GitHub Sponsors is based on USD and my bank would take in the ballpark of 2.5% for conversion fees otherwise.
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Huh I'm surprised they had trouble with that, I feel like that's part of the value add of Stripe, but that's just my naive view from afar
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I had no problem when they were doing wire transfers themselves but it wasted money on fees. The issue ended up being that my bank expected a different format for the account number than what I provided. USD account at a Canadian bank is often a bit odd.
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PayPal doesn't really allow you to withdraw USD to a USD account. They force you to use a CAD account if it's a Canadian bank. My bank has a presence in the US and I used a standard workaround people have published where you give it to PayPal as a US bank with the US branch info.
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It's very odd that it even works but I can't actually take money out of the account into PayPal. Can only put money into it, which is a bit annoying, since some people can only receive money through PayPal and that's almost always in USD + I don't leave much money sitting in it.