I often get asked “why did you start Flattr?” It’s a question I love, because it’s easy to answer. Even though the answer is long the goal has always been obvious for us. The internet is this wonder of creativity, information and imagination. It has unleashed people's creative forces and the power it gives in … Continue reading The Flattr vision, a creative internet beyond ad revenue
Author: Linus Olsson
With the public release of Flattr 2.0 we also published new versions of our extensions. There are quite a few updates but the biggest one is the second iteration of our automatic Flattr algorithm. It has greatly improved from the first version so here is everything you need to know about the new one. From … Continue reading The New Flattr Algorithm: How does it work?
The release is finally happening! On October 24th, we will launch the new version of Flattr for the public. Here is a guide to the new Flattr, for creators, publishers, and contributors. Time to brace yourself, this is it. The evolution that aims to become a revolution. We have worked long and hard on … Continue reading The Flattr relaunch: What to expect!
Everything you need to know about Flattr fees for creators, and why we charge them: a transparent breakdown. We are changing our fees and we want to do it in the most transparent way. We have split the fee in two: Creators that receive money will be charged a monthly fee of 7.5%. This is … Continue reading Our new fee structure
How the Flattr network effect works, and answers the big question “will people actually pay for content online?” One of the core problems with Flattr has always been to prove to creators and publishers that people do want support their creations with money. We can claim that is the truth as much as we want, … Continue reading Network effect: Flattrs without known receiver
Today it’s time for another of our core values when it comes to product design: user control. More specifically, control of what gets flattred. User control is very important to us, so we had to approach it in a serious way. Giving control in a product that is supposed to be automatic is not an … Continue reading The Story about the new Flattr – The Flattr enabled list
Let’s go into how ownership recognition works on the new Flattr. When a URL is flattred we need to be able to look up who owns it to transfer money from a consumer to the respective content creator. This post will explain how that works and why we do it this way. Our goal is … Continue reading The story about the new Flattr – Making your content flattrable
The new Flattr is completely automated, meaning that it flattrs your favorite content for you based on the attention you give it. This is done through our smart algorithm, but how does it really work? What does the algorithm know? What does it tell us? Let’s take a dive into automation, algorithm and privacy! The … Continue reading Key elements of the new Flattr – the all-knowing, privacy-friendly algorithm
Soon we are officially launching a completely new, hands-off way to Flattr. So it’s about time to explain how it works and why we decided to do it this way. This is the first of a series of posts where we will also go into more detail about the internal work process around the new … Continue reading Key elements of the new Flattr – a status update
Join us as full stack web developer We’re looking for someone who is passionate about the web to help us prototype new ideas and update and maintain the Flattr service. This includes the website, our public API and various internal systems that keep it all running. You will get to work with a smaller team based in … Continue reading Join us as developer!