[marcuslongmuir]

We're trying to give open source and other software projects a place to build a community and monetize.

If your code is hosted on GitHub, you can respond to bugs or other specific problems using issues, but finding a place to grow a community of users that can help each other, provide feedback, vote on feature requests and provide useful information to new users is hard.

At the same time, we want to help open source projects monetize in a more effective way than simple donations. We've built a paid support system that simplifies the flow for project owners into specifying their rate, accepting a request and getting paid upon fulfillment. We're also incentivizing backing; in return for backing a project, your posts are promoted in the project's discussion area.

If that explanation makes sense, could you offer suggestions for changes that would have made it more understandable the first time you saw it?

We'll be adding an example soon.

Thanks

[breischl]

"Software projects" is very generic. A wannabe-Facebook-clone is a software project, my boring corporate accounting program is a software project, etc. But those aren't your target. Seems like you only want open-source (or at least non-commercial) projects. So say that.

At a guess, you're probably also not targeting teeny-tiny libraries/toolkits, because they don't need much more than Github provides. Only bigger and more mature projects probably have need of this, so you might mention that too.