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
First users to test the revolutionary zero-click payment solution For many months now, we’ve been internally testing the new version of Flattr. The browser extension cleverly understands which content a user really likes, and on what content he / she spends a lot of time. These sites are automatically flattred by our shiny new Flattr … Continue reading New Flattr extension in closed beta
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!
Today is a very happy day for us and we want to share some great news with you: Two of the most out-of-the-box thinking organizations on the web have joined forces in order to build a sustainable Internet! The new Flattr extension will allow users to directly and sustainably fund content they love – simply … Continue reading Adblock Plus & Flattr join forces
It’s always darkest before spring. Yes we live in Sweden and the winter is damn dark. But in this case, spring is the release of the beta version, and the sun is already peeking over the horizon. So you can imagine, that we are pretty busy these days. But now it's time to give you a quick update! Current status … Continue reading
Howdy! The dog days of summer are passing over us hotly, turning most people into lazy sun seekers and vacationing hordes. But not us. Nope, we’re keeping our shoulder to the wheel, diligently hammering away at this revolution called Flattr Plus. Ugh? Nope, actually, zero “ughs” are being uttered round here. We’re having fun reinventing the way the … Continue reading Flattr Plus update #2
Since we announced Flattr Plus in early May we’ve been working hard to perfect what we believe is the web’s missing (monetization) link. It’s been encouraging, and exciting, developing an easy, automatic solution to fund content. We’re still on track with the closed beta, which will be ready in the early fall (sign up here), and the open … Continue reading Flattr Plus update