Posted on - December 26, 2007 [at] 10:13 am by Brad
Tagged in - business, donation, free, money, open source, project
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I’ve been jealous of Gimme Some Candy for a long time. I’ve hassled them to let me in but they’re not accepting new artists. It’s a great idea — a tip jar with benefits. Supporters can buy items and leave a little message that gets displayed on the artist’s homepage.
So I’ve written and released an open source clone that’s pretty easy to set up. It’s called Gimme Some Money. The default items are a star, heart and cookie but they can be swapped out. You can see mine (using the default icons) over on the right sidebar.
Requirements: PHP 4+/MySQL & a Paypal account
Update: fixed an IE/Opera bug and updated it to v0.86 (thanks to jason for pointing out the bug).
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6 Comments on this post
Molly on Gimme Some Money v0.85
December 26, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Well, a pox on them for not letting you in.
How hard is it to host someone’s candy, Gimme Some Candy people? I don’t understand.
craig on Gimme Some Money v0.85
December 26, 2007 at 10:35 pm
i dont’ get it.. what are the “benefits” ?
Brad on Gimme Some Money v0.85
December 26, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Not much really. Basically instead of just donating the user gets to choose an icon and write a message that shows up on the website when people mouseover the icon. But it adds a bit of personalization to the donation which I think is cool.
Cheewytoes McSmith on Gimme Some Money v0.85
December 27, 2007 at 4:12 am
Haha, I agree with Molly. GIVE BRAD SOME FRIGGIN CANDY.
jason on Gimme Some Money v0.85
December 27, 2007 at 11:53 am
doesn’t seem to work with opera or IE6. i could give two shits about IE, but it should work with opera. seems to work fine on firefox
Brad on Gimme Some Money v0.85
December 27, 2007 at 1:02 pm
jason: Fixed that, thanks. Apparently you can’t call a Javascript function “click” in IE or Opera.