So my six month experiment<\/a> with Flattr<\/a> has come to an end. In short, my revenue was a measly \u00e2\u201a\u00ac0.42 for \u00e2\u201a\u00ac2\/month payment. Not worth it.<\/p>\n Flattr was just too much hassle. I’d want it to be able to add pages from an RSS feed, but instead, every page had to be added manually. It wouldn’t even spider your sites to index content. You had to go to the site to find new things to read (I’ve never found a Flattr badge in the wild), and it is really difficult to filter by language and keywords. Worst of all, you have to remember to click on at least one thing a month, otherwise your payment would disappear down a black hole.<\/p>\n Here’s my payment\/revenue breakdown:<\/p>\n
| Means<\/em> -> Monthly Flattr amount \n2010-10-31<\/td>\n \u00e2\u201a\u00ac-1.70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Flattr earnings -> revenue<\/em> | \n2010-10-10<\/td>\n \u00e2\u201a\u00ac0.09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Means<\/em> -> Monthly Flattr amount | \n2010-09-30<\/td>\n \u00e2\u201a\u00ac-2.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Means<\/em> -> Monthly Flattr amount | \n2010-08-31<\/td>\n \u00e2\u201a\u00ac-2.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Means<\/em> -> Monthly Flattr amount | \n2010-07-31<\/td>\n \u00e2\u201a\u00ac-2.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Means<\/em> -> Monthly Flattr amount | \n2010-06-30<\/td>\n \u00e2\u201a\u00ac-2.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Flattr earnings -> revenue<\/em> | \n2010-06-10<\/td>\n \u00e2\u201a\u00ac0.33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Means<\/em> -> Monthly Flattr amount | \n2010-05-31<\/td>\n \u00e2\u201a\u00ac-2.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Flattr earnings -> revenue<\/em> | \n2010-05-10<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Means<\/em> -> Monthly Flattr amount | \n2010-05-04<\/td>\n \u00e2\u201a\u00ac-0.44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | PayPal -> means<\/em> | \n2010-05-02<\/td>\n \u00e2\u201a\u00ac12.14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | And here’s what was actually clicked:<\/p>\n
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