I forget where I read this... set off your fire alarms every now and then and give your pets treats. That way they come looking for you when the alarm legitimately goes off.

https://salt.bountysource.com/ has monthly and one-time donations for OSS projects. And PayPal is supported.

I understand you're trying to follow up in conversations. Posting a link once or twice is okay. This is beginning to look like spam.

Hm. You actually made me look at it, and it indeed does look interesting. Somehow, I always had an unfavourable impression about BountySource before; now that I think of it, possibly because of clunky GUI? Or, I believe it may be that the "capturing/overlaying" of GitHub Issues they do feels uncannily scammy to me?

Edit: don't fully understand it, but somehow I have a feeling it'd help me if I saw people behind the project emphasized more? I now remember I also supported the Voxel Quest author (Gavan Woolery) via his project. The "regular" (non-Kickstarter) one however was Calibre.

Bountysource has both software bounties (https://www.bountysource.com/) and monthly donations (https://salt.bountysource.com/).

It's also open source: http://github.com/bountysource/core

As far as I understand, Salt would only need one addition to move things towards this proposal: allowing project maintainers to make a list of bugs/features that monthly contributors could vote on.

Bountysource has voting built in. As well as a browser extension that lets you thumbs up when on a tracker like GitHub:

https://www.bountysource.com/extension

There's also a monthly recurring donation platform:

https://salt.bountysource.com/