Author Archives: Peter Sunde

About Peter Sunde

Peter is one of the co-founders of Flattr, the one with the idea and the vision.

TPB AFK and why I started Flattr

Last Friday the documentary about The Pirate Bay premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and on the internet respectively. It’s an incredible success with over 1 million views on Youtube and lot’s of seeds on TPB in only four days. I’m … Continue reading

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Our cloud, our rules. PS. All your base are belong to us

You might have read that Instacast was rejected from the AppStore because of its Flattr integration. To get approved (and some vital bugfixes out to their users) the developer had to remove Flattr support from its app. What’s in a … Continue reading

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The History of Flattr – Short version!

I’ve been very active in the discussion about rights on the internet for a long time. For me, the interesting thing has always been how to make sure that people are being treated equally and fairly. The internet gives us … Continue reading

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Flattr Partners with Asian Country [april fools]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Malmö/Pyongyang, 1 april 2011. FLATTR AB partners with DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA. Malmö – Flattr AB (FLATTR), the company behind the revolutionary website Flattr.com has partnered with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (NK). NK will … Continue reading

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Last months calculation

Last months calculation is currently being adjusted. We made a small brain fart regarding the order of how we execute the new donation system, which made our logic break a bit. Due to this, the full monthly amount was subtracted … Continue reading

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Hoola Bandoola Band-award

Last week we won something really amazing, probably the thing we’re most proud of in our [although short] history! Yeah, we’ve won some of those “best startup”-awards before, and been seen as top innovative people, but the award we got … Continue reading

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We’re one man short right now, but another friend is here

One of our crew members is a bit sick. Too bad that he’s missing our new friend that’s visiting (hopefully often)!

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Flattr re-arranges board and stuff!

As Flattr is growing, we also needed to re-arrange the board to make things operate a bit more smoothly. Peter wanted out of the administrative tasks, since he is not living nearby and travelling quite a bit. He has therefor … Continue reading

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August done and welcome Joel!

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 … Continue reading

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Welcome Pelle & WikiLeaks!

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 … Continue reading

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