I’m a student who makes open source projects that are fairly popular and are used by several companies.

Today, I’m launching my Patreon campaign to hopefully fulfill my dreams of working on open source full-time.

Today is a good day.

https://patreon.com/kbrsh

Think you would have better luck with a "buy me a beer" section with paypal and a bitcoin address on your projects readme.md

@PerfectAsshole I’m underage ;)

I’ve had many requests from companies that asked how they can help support my projects to ensure that they are maintained.

I think that this is the best way to help sustain my projects as it is a monthly commitment, but I’m always open to feedback.

@king thats the reason it was in quotations. It can be named whatever

@king maybe it's not what you want but I see someone mentioned bitcoin so take a look at utopian.io

Wow awesome jobs, kid. I meant it.

@CurseMeSlowly Thank you!

@yosaucedo I'll definitely check that out!

I think that's a perfect example of when not to use patreon. Definitely agreed that some sort of donate button would be much more lucrative.

You have some great skills bud! Best of luck! I will keep an eye on your projects!

@AleCx04 Thanks, I appreciate it!

@king Like age stops people from drinking beer lol.

@th31 I think it’s a perfect place to use it.

Rather than one-time donations, patrons pay monthly. This is more sustainable in the long-term and works well with companies that depend on the projects.

@king I'm aware of how it works. Why not just have both? Does patreon allow one time donations? I really don't think convincing people to pay monthly for free stuff is a great way to make some money. Even if there is companies using the software.

@th31 Patreon does not allow one-time payments. If a company uses a project in production, then it makes sense to support it financially to ensure that it is maintained.

The same idea applies for people. If many people do a one-time donation of $5, it’s only good for the short-term.

On the other hand, a couple people paying $25 a month results in more money annually.

Another place to receive donations is OpenCollective. Many successful projects (such as Webpack) have a page there and receive monthly donations.

@king I don't think you need to explain why getting paid monthly is better than getting paid once.

I just would be surprised to see much of an uptake of that model for an open source developer. Like I said, just accept both. I'd happily donate to a project I like, but wouldn't ever touch patreon really. I think that's the least stable way to ensure a project is maintained. If someone's serious about that, they'll use a large project, or hire their own developers.

@th31 I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree then :)

I might consider adding one-time donations to the READMEs of my projects though.

@king Hey, good job! You're awesome 😀

@saintograph Thank you so much! :D

Dude you are an inspiring soul.

I saw your projects, and man am I impressed! It's amazing

Why not just setup your own subscription model that the companies who want your continued support can sign up to?

Okay i've kept my mouth shut for all the time but this patreon advertising is triggering me too hard.

You have been exposed on Reddit multiple times, you are not 13 years old your seconds account on devrant is named @Kong (Very creative, very obviously ++'s kings posts and vise versa). You lie to people all the time in order to promote yourself and now you try to grab money from them.

Quit your bullshit.

@Hammster oh also lets not forget that HN exposed you too. That you changed your username multiple times and always claimed to be something else "Coolsimpledude1" instead of "KingPixil" which is pretty simple to track back. Then you claimed you started at 8 with C and Web with 11. Then suddenly you make 180 websites and promote your framework at the age of 12.

Then you ask questions about yourself on quora , like "is it normal that a 11 year old creates 180 websites?" and obviously you also have to link it.

This sounds too much like promotion BS.

@Hammster I'm not advertising in any way, this is just an announcement that I'm proud of.

And...I am 13. I have had a ton of interest in computer science since I was 8, and got started by making websites and then progressed into systems.

Again, I'm not sure what a username change has ANYTHING to do with my age. If anything, rebranding myself from "simplecooldude1" is showing an increase in maturity.

Lastly, @kong is definitely not me...check the ++'s on their account (which was made before mine).

Just think about what you've said.

"You are not 13 years old"

Are you seriously expecting to convince me that I'm not my own age?!?

Reach out to me personally if you really want to, but don't ruin nice communities like devRant by attempting to "expose" someone.

@king no this is not being proud or anything this is an advertisement, this is all I see you do on Reddit, HN, quora and twitter.

Also, both accounts are created in the same quartal of the same year. That your age seems off is super obvious. Intrest does not correspond to knowledge and experience and all your projects on GitHub are more than enough proof of that.

Another thing is that you always answer with the same sentence if your age is in question. You totally know what you do and who you try to fool.

Yes, devrant is a nice community that's why I don't want something like self-promotion on it. I also do not post stuff about my work or projects here out of that reason. And i also do not brag about having written assembly when I was around your age since it was the only option to write games back in the days.

@king I like my things to be researchable since I got nothing to hide if you want to you probably find stuff on (BBS)bulletin board system backups that I've written when I was 14 since I never changed my nickname.

And since I've been on the net for so long I know bs when I see it. I am not affected the slightest by words and phrasing. All I see are facts.

And the fact is:

- You never proved your age.
- You started webdevelopment at 11 by your own comment and started development of moon 2015 according to your blog, but then you commited your first HTML pages on GitHub on the 22th december. Super odd isn't it?
- .ml is a strange TLD for a page considering that it does not expose anything about the owner.
- The namechanges are even stranger, all accounts have been deleted or whiped. Luckely "way back machine" exists and allows for a better reasearch.
- The mathimatical complexity you describe in your blog also does not match up with your "claimed" age.

@Hammster just for reference that math would have been on the level of Tristan Pang a truly astonishing person who scored 97% at the Cambridge A-level exams at the age of 11.

And the stuff on your blog indicated that you needed to be on the same level as him in maths, but you surprisingly are not noted at any time and point in any media/paper/blog around the world except you wrote it yourself. Also let's not forget Tristan Pang only does math 24/7 he has no idea how to program and it would hinder his knowledge progression in math.

@Hammster Yup, you have a lot of facts against me—it's hard for me to prove my age.

- How can I prove my age?

- If you read Introducing Moon, it states that I started working locally on Moon in 2015. I didn't know how Git or GitHub worked at the time.

- .ml is a free TLD that I only use because I currently cannot afford to buy other domain names.

- My name changes are public. I tweeted about it and also have accounts setup on my older usernames (such as @KingPixil on Twitter)

- The math is actually pretty simple—it's just the notation that throws people off. The summations are just notations for averages and the amount of items in a multiset. This sort of stuff is taught in my middle school Algebra 1 class along with a few higher math courses in high school. It's not as complicated as you make it seem.