Flattr Blog

August just flashed by, almost like time just vanished into thin air. The month has felt really short! Maybe because of the sun outside…

Updates regarding payouts: The past month saw a big increase in pay outs over July, which was a big increase since June (and of course – a big increase since May…)… so it’s all going the right way!

One thing we noted is that money was now spread to a lot more people than the previous months – a quite big jump as well.
Most of the new signups that came due to the open registration had a limited amount for the month since we decrease the monthly sum based on how many days you’ve been part of flattr when you sign up (I.e. – if you sign up the last day of the month, we don’t take the full amount, but calculate how many percentages of the month you’ve been active).
Next month will likely see an even bigger increase in money flowing through our system – and hopefully, to even more people!

Flattr has been very stable and we’re now starting to partner with non-web services! Some secrets that is now a bit more open (since we tweet about them): We’re integrating Flattr into some media players. That means that you might be able to Flattr your favorite media pieces in the future – that’s why we love our API. It’s still being tested but if you’re interested in helping us testing it – just ping us on our contact form!

We’ve found another team member! He’s a laidback northerner called Joel – we all wish him welcome!

Next week Flattr is visiting the country where the system is adopted the most – Germany. We’re going to have a small booth at All 2gether Now in Berlin. We’re staying 7-8th september, and we’ll do some talks as well during the conference and camp! Hope to see alot of our users there!

If you thought we were just a bunch of lazy guys hanging out at the beach all day drinking rum cocktails with tiny pink umbrellas. Well, you thought right. But we do manage to put in some work between the drinks and today we are happy to announce what some of you already know. We are now in open beta!

The road has been long and hard but we are finally there, and we are really excited about it! Just look how happy it made Linus!

But that is not all, we took the time to improve a few things as well:

• No more invites, anyone can join!
• New design, some changes to freshen up the site in general.
• Facebook Integration, publish your new things and what you flattr to your facebook feed.
• Facebook Application, you can now show your Flattr things on your Facebook profile.
• Twitter integration, publish your new things and what you flattr to your Twitter feed.
• Better user experience, improved sign-up process and dashboard.
• New JavaScript API, complete revamp.

We love what we do and we love that you love what we do and we love you!

First we should start with some internal news – we have a new person in our team! It’s Pelle (@voxpelli) who is a master at social networks and we’re really happy to have him onboard! He will work with extending Flattr to outside of just Flattr.

Then some other news. A lot of people have of course read about the fact that WikiLeaks has started using Flattr – and we couldn’t be more happy about it.
Flattr is about an open and fair world and we share these values with WikiLeaks and we’re really happy if we can help them out.

We’re cleaning up code and preparing to go out of invite-only beta, to be an open beta. Small steps, one at a time.

Oh, and if you want to meet us, we’ll be at All 2gether now in Berlin 7-8 of September…! Hope to see you there!

Our REST API is almost ready!

Now it’s time to start the first bunch of partner integration via API with Flattr.

If you run a service and would like to integrate Flattr for your users, please drop us a line with info about the service to partners (at) flattr dot com.

Since we’re still just a small team, and two people actually sick this week (damn swedish summers) it’s on a first come first served basis..

Hope to see some cool integrations soon!

This post will be in Swedish (as we want you to speak Swedish and live in Sweden):

Flattr behöver ännu fler PHP-ninjas för att fylla vårt fina (nu större) kontor!

Om du kan PHP och bor i närheten av Malmö så vill vi gärna prata med dig. Vi erbjuder faktiskt inte helt usel lön längre (men alla har fortfarande samma lön hos oss) och aktieoptioner som sig bör i allt beta 2.0 web it. Vi har en fat boy som lämpligt spelas wipeout 2097 i. Frukost finns i kylen. Och vi skrattar ofta åt/med varandra.

Nu behöver vi folk som är redigt bra på PHP (mest) eftersom vi hanterar folks pengar. Vi har deadlines, stora planer och mycket (roliga) saker att göra! Arbetsplats är på vårt kontor i Malmö och det är här du behöver kunna vara på dagarna.

Och just, ja börja direkt är extra bäst om du kan.

Kom med och forma framtidens internet (en sann floskel, sug på den!)

Skicka lite info din CV samt den mest ninja php kod du har på lager till Linus (linus snabel-a flattr punkt com) och skriv gärna att det gäller jobb så han inte blir helt tokig.

(Vet du nån vi borde snacka med så tipsa/skicka gärna vidare med.)

Two nice articles about us, from Financial Times, TechCrunch and SkyNews
FT – Pirate Bay founder aims to make a Flattr world
TechCrunch – Is Flattr The New Facebook Like, But This Time With Money?
SkyNews – And Then There Were Social Payments

Usually we release new versions of the site on Thursdays – but we decided to do it today since it’s holidays on fridays. We want a full day to be able to pick up bugs

The news this week on the site:

• Ability to see who flattred things (if the users has chosen to do so)
• Ability for users to show what they’ve flattred (you can find this in the the privacy settings)
• URLs that are on private systems are now allowed. They will however be hidden from the main listing on Flattr.com
• We hired a new programmer – Niklas @silfverstrom! Welcome!
• REST API is in testing.
• Leif brought chili plants for all of the team.
• Peter was in Paris to discuss the future of financing culture.
• … and lots of internal updates that users cannot see… yet!

Glad midsommar!

So lately it’s been a bit quiet here in the blog. It’s because we’ve been working hard as usual!

Technically, we’re close to finalizing our new API. And we’ve fixed lots of small bugs!

Flattr was featured in lots of interesting media lately. We were on BBC Click, lots of news papers and Peter also went to the European Union Parliament in brussels and presented Flattr to the politicians there.

So essentially, there’s lots of stuff going on, but you will not notice all of it. Until we’re finished!

Today, we’re pushing the new version live and we hope you will all give us feedback if you still find any bugs!

Right now are we being targeted by a DDoS attack. All systems are very hard to reach. We are so sorry (and quite mad) that someone does think we and our users deserve this.

We are working on the problem and hope to solve it soon, and will publish more info when we have it.

Update: Things are running again, for now at least.

Mays monthly revenue distribution is calculated! Check your dashboards to see how much you actually will get.

The money will end up your revenue account on the 10th, this is to make sure that no foul play has been going on.

Many users got over €100, which we see as a good first step. And thousands of people actually GOT revenue, which is also good. We’re going forward!

Keep on flattring!