Activitywatch: Get sustainable funding

[ErikBjare]

In pursuit of securing the financial sustainability of the project and accelerate development we'd really benefit from getting funding one way or another.

Avenues:

• Research grants
  
  
  
  • The most likely source that I can imagine right now in the projects current shape and focus. We should ask the SSB people who seem to have extensive experience with this.
  
  
• Open source grants:
  
  
  
  • [x] [FUUG.fi](https://fuug.fi), see #343
  
  
• Donations from users
  
  
  
  • The only source right now, unsatisfactory as it only barely covers current costs (not including development costs).
  
  
• Consulting
  
  
  
  • Similar to the model used by Syncthing. Helping companies use ActivityWatch.
  
  
• Building an enterprise-focused version
  
  
  
  • Similar to the model used by GitLab. Might follow consulting efforts, we've developed a basic business plan in a course I took but not sure how good it is.
  
  
• Raise money from investors
  
  
  
  • We'd need to develop a better business plan for this.
  
  

Related to #236

[abhirupdutta0]

As for the donations from users, I would suggest you enable donations through BAT (Brave Browser's inbuilt cryptocurrency). It probably won't be much (considering the percentage of Brave users and the general instability of crypto's value) but, as a student who can't donate, I would love to have some way to contribute.

[ErikBjare]

@abhirupdutta0 As far as I know, there's no way to connect apps like ours to the Brave donations program. I'm personally connected through my GitHub, but since I'm not a Brave user I don't know how attribution works.

[abhirupdutta0]

@abhirupdutta0 As far as I know, there's no way to connect apps like ours to the Brave donations program. I'm personally connected through my GitHub, but since I'm not a Brave user I don't know how attribution works.

You just have to sign up to Brave's creator program, and then you will receive any BAT that was donated and any that will be donated in the future.
Check this out to find out more: https://creators.brave.com/

[ErikBjare]

As I said, I've done that, but there is no way to connect it to
ActivityWatch (since it's running locally) or the ActivityWatch GitHub org.

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, 16:02 abhirupdutta0, [e-mail] wrote:

@abhirupdutta0 https://github.com/abhirupdutta0 As far as I know,
there's no way to connect apps like ours to the Brave donations program.
I'm personally connected through my GitHub, but since I'm not a Brave user
I don't know how attribution works.

You just have to sign up to Brave's creator program, and then you will
receive any BAT that was donated and any that will be donated in the future.
Check this out to find out more: https://creators.brave.com/

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[abhirupdutta0]

As I said, I've done that, but there is no way to connect it to ActivityWatch (since it's running locally) or the ActivityWatch GitHub org.

Yes.There is no way to connect it to the app directly but you can still make a wallet for activitywatch.net. That way you will receive all donations sent to that domain.

[ErikBjare]

@abhirupdutta0 Ah right, I've done that now :)

[xylix]

The FUUG application has been sent and waiting for the outcome should probably happen here instead of in that issue. I'll close #343 , and update here with their response when it happens (could take a few months).

[ErikBjare]

Update on the fuug.fi grant: We got 3000€ from them!

Huge thanks to @xylix for pulling this across the finish line, and to @teklak for helping me write the first drafts of the application.

Now we need to:

• [x] Write a short blurb for their website (after which they'll send us the money)
• [ ] (Once the money is spent) Write an update on what the money was used for

[xylix]

Blurb now written, waiting for their approval and comments.

[ErikBjare]

I just applied to Mozilla Fix the Internet Spring MVP Lab (thanks for the tip @powersource!).

The internet's amazing, weird, sometimes a little icky. Let’s face it: it could use some fixing. Are you a student, coder, designer, creator who wants to help us build new services and platforms that foster collaboration during this crisis, or put privacy first, or combat filter bubbles and polarization, or AI platforms that work for the end user, the citizen? Mozilla’s Fix-The-Internet MVP Lab is an 8 week-long incubator-style program this Spring to mobilize & fund around products and technologies that enable everyone to connect and build a better society.

See the attached application: fix_the_internet_spring_mvp_lab_response_3B4HN8suUmty.pdf

In the best-case scenario that would give us 2500€ per person (me, @johan-bjareholt, and @xylix) as well as being part of their incubator program (which would definitely be interesting!). There's additionally prizes for the best projects:

First: $25,000, Second: $10,000, Third: $5,000 (per team)

Update: We did not receive the grant, looks like it wasn't a good fit for us.