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DEV is now Web Monetized

Peter Kim Frank on June 10, 2020

Earlier this month, we announced the Grant For The Web x DEV Hackathon to help drive community experimentation around Web Monetization. While hack...
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Gabriel Laroche

Wow amazing! It's nice to see the web slowly move away from privacy sucking advertising and towards a more privacy focused and intuitive way of paying for content. I love that Dev/Coil is at the forefront of this

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David Murphy

Its just the old subscription model update with more modern terminology. It's all about the producer not the consumer. I would like to see a similar model applied to newspapers combined with advertising (ie you pay or you accept adverts) because that may allow improvements in the quality of journalism, but I don't see it happening here. Most of what I have read here seems to be junior coders trying to big themselves up when what they write is mediocre at best.

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Paula

I'm very excited about this! Thank you and good luck to everyone involved in the hackathon.

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Felix Terkhorn • Edited

I'm particularly excited about the healthy crossover this can foster for people using LinkedIn (your friendly social behemoth, a wholly owned sub$idiary of Microsoft) and dev.to simultaneously.

As a social media skeptic, I begrudgingly returned to LinkedIn to pursue work. It's hard to beat the effort/reward payout on that site if you're looking for visibility.

As a technician, I feel like I can enjoy dev.to more directly. The community is more tight-knit, the site isn't trying to appeal to every profession in the universe, and if I want to, I can spend time scrutinizing the source. Not to mention the fact that there's an enormous amount of good content that isn't constantly interrupted by worthless ads - - far better than what LinkedIn currently offers, IMO.

This grant helps bring a little bit more of that healthy sales mindset to a site I really feel at home on. Great work!

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Vaibhav Khulbe

What a wonderful step to support creators! 🎉

Money GIF

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Lukas Lukac

Incredible step forward Dev community! Welcome to Web3, Blockchain world! Streaming micro payments is one of the most important inventions of the last few years to hopefully shift value from advertisement companies back to content creators and consumers, users. If anyone wants to learn blockchain development I am building a free newsletter 200+ devs strong and growing: web3.coach

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Igor Irianto • Edited

Btw, for those who wonder if it works - I made my first $0.05 since I set this up (roughly a week ago). Sure, 5 cents can't get me anything, but this is a very good start. Keep it up!

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Ben Sinclair

I made £0.02 in the last two months! It just arrived today! And they took £0.01 in commission!

THE FUTURE IS NOW.

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Kodebae

How did you set it up? I am not seeing an option in my settings to add the pointer. ;(

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Retiago Drago

I want to know if it is based on a certain browser or country since I want to set them up as well but I'm afraid they may not supported yet

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Heriberto Roman • Edited

Anyone else from NYC and noticed this message from Uphold during registration? Did you go through with the process or did you bail?

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Guney Ozsan

Micro royalties helped a lot flourishing indie music creation against mainstream ad based publishing. I hope this also boosts the number and variety of voices heard around the web. I suppose this is very important nowadays where web is getting less open with less memory thanks to non-crawlable closed social networks becoming dominant over open forums.

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Guney Ozsan • Edited

I was about to mention Flattr. Perhaps such examples cannot exceed some certain threshold (of user base) unless they become native part of the platform as in music streaming or say Apple arcade. Web monetization sounds promising closing such gap.

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Corey McCarty

I'm super excited about this. I believe that it will bring better content as there is more reward for doing such.

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Bruno Paz

Amazing work!

Maybe 6 months ago, asked Ben in the chat if there were any plans of introducing some way of monetizing the content on dev in a way that could benefit the writers while still having a good experience for the readers (Unlike Medium for example) and the response was a "Yes!". That´s also how I got to know Coil.

And now here it is. Faster than I anticipated!!

Of course, it´s a long way to go until it becomes a viable income source for creators but I really love the idea behind the Web Monetization standard and paying creators by just using the Web Browser.

It´s nice to see platforms like Coil, Dev, Twitch, and Youtube leading the way.

Would love to see this implemented in GitHub, so you would gain money when someone visits your repos. The possibilities are endless.

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Chris Bertrand

Fantastic! Great addition to the platform folks!

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Peyton McGinnis

So excited!! 🎉🎉

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Waylon Walker

🎉 Great work DEV making so much progress focusing on content creators.

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Kamran Ayub

This is so cool, I've already added the meta tag to most of my sites today.

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Damien Cosset

I can finally quit my job and become a full-time writer on dev.to?

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David Murphy

Do you have anything useful to say? Do you have the experience to supply quality articles that will benefit peopel enough to pay?

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Adhithya Srinivasan

Awesome to start with

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Mohammed Asker

UpHold is blocked in my region. Are there any other alternatives?

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Muhimen

Didn't he mention the other options here?

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Mohammed Asker

Oh, right. Didn't noticed it properly. Thanks for pointing out!

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Muhimen

You are most welcome. 😁

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Ségolène Alquier

I'm definitely curious to see how it works and what changes it will bring to the content creation world! ✨
Really cool initiative 👏

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Julian Garamendy

My Uphold account seems to have several currencies. I can generate an "Interledger Payment Pointer" for any of them. Should I do it for USD?

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Peyton McGinnis

Yes, if that's your preferred currency.

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Mursal Furqan Kumbhar

I can't see any such pointer option in my settings

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Jerry Ng

You can find the pointer option at:

Settings -> Extensions -> Web monetization

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Venkatraman

I have learnt something new from this post! Will write about it on my Community Software blog.

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manish srivastava

nice

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Saleh Mubashar

@peter
Is there any other wallet other than uphold or gatehub? My uphold got banned qithout a reason and i dont knwo what to do at this point Thanks

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Oscar Ortiz

Is there an update to this, now that Coil isn't being supported anymore.

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Stephen Chiang

Does anyone know the best practice in regards to gdpr, especially in eu when using the pointer meta tag?

Do we need to

a) inform user like we do with Google AdSense?
b) let them opt out?

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Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen • Edited

Translation: You will maybe get micropayments from people using the Puma browser (<0.01% market share). Let's manage expectations.

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Chris Frewin

If you subscribe to Coil there's also a Coil browser extension for chrome / firefox etc.

I think this whole thing is really cool! Finally a relatively actionable and concrete example of this whole crypto / micropayment / electronic payment stuff that is more often times than not, in the end, just fluff.

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Gaurav Saini

I know the answer to this is going to be an obvious one, but can anyone sign up for this?

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faenor

Sounds similar like Brave Rewards