> It seems to me that the challenge is Bringing people willing to
> offer support and people willing to pay together.

I spy a startup/business opportunity: Start a platform that
lets people subscribe and lets people who want to provide support
get paid.

Use Stripe for billing, etc.

I would build this myself if I had more time.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 5:49 AM Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasilij.de>
wrote:

> > Does anyone want to offer support for Emacs?
>
> Plenty people offer support on community-run platforms such as Reddit
> and Stackexchange. There's also the #emacs channel on Freenode to
> consider. I've considered doing the jump to something more binding
> before (like writing elisp at an hourly rate), but didn't find many
> people actually willing to pay for that. It seems to me that the
> challenge is Bringing people willing to offer support and people willing
> to pay together.
>
> > I have a feeling that a flat rate of 5 or 15 dollars a month would
> > be a difficult way to run such a business.
>
> There are several fund raising platforms (Patreon being the most
> well-known, but not the only one) that aim to incentivize a group of
> people to support creators for a small monthly fee (usually between 1 to
> 20 dollar), given enough of them, it is possible for the most popular
> creators to live off that. I support a few Emacs Lisp hackers that way
> and I expect more of them to get into such platforms.
>
> Another thing to consider is funding in general. There is this
> widespread misbelief that one can support the development of Emacs and
> Emacs packages by donating to the FSF. Giving people an official option
> to that effect might be worth looking into.
>