As the title suggests, I feel Lummy should really consider opening up a Patreon for BYOND.

The reasoning is simple - with Patreon, you essentially get people to commit a portion of their paycheck on a monthly basis to help support the product. To me, this greatly outweighs the notion of depending on monthly donations as a significant portion of income. Mainly because, people will probably be more likely to give a small quantity of money on a per-month basis, then they are to say donate a bigger sum of money on a whim.

Of course, this to work, it'll take some effort from the BYOND Team [read: Lummox]. He'll need to design certain perks, and the tiers that come from making donations. Just to get the ball rolling, I'll put some ideas in.

Some Ideas

• Make certain tiers of patronage able to have exclusive access to BYOND's beta versions.
• Perhaps at a certain level, you have exclusive ability to put in a request - so long as it fails to be 'not feasible', and make it one of the priorities.
• I don't know. Maybe the capacity to remove ads. Something of the sort.

Sound off below if you think BYOND could benefit from opening a Patreon. Of course, in the end it all comes down to the Boss Man. But figured I'd put the suggestion out there. I don't see why BYOND can't eventually make good money.