Hi!
Just an idea, tell me if it’s feasible or not….
Jolla, or a developer could put price tags on feature requests or application requests, so community members could donate actual money for each project to help allocate resources and let things move forward.
OR
If a request is hard to estimate, we could donate money to put a prize together (with a deadline), and if someone can deliver, they can collect the money. (If the deadline is reached without any results, refund…)
Sorry for my english…
That could be done through existing bounty platforms for users to request developments. I like the idea, but that depends on acceptance among developers.
List of open source bounty platforms:
Sounds like a really annoying incentive model with lots of extra work.
If you have to write this you already know your idea is flawed. Then why not spare us? It is not like it has any particularly novel aspects to it.
I don’t see what is so wrong with my intention to try to raise some money for Jolla, and to highlight the most important requests, and I’m sorry for being so delusional that I thought I had the right to raise a topic.
As an old time reader of this forum, nagging has just reached new heights! 
I personally thought your post could trigger an interesting discussion (have already learned about bounties), hopefully many devs will chip in.
I’ve asked multiple times what application people want and usually it’s not doable without heavy reverse engineering, like bank apps etc
Beside that, it’s not gonna work, people are not very eager to throw money around
Well I like the idea a lot! Definitely appreciate you of raising this topic 
It would be interesting to know if Jolla would be interested about this kind of model. They have mentioned that they would like to create somekind of voting system, maybe financial incentive would be more motivational? This Thursday there is community meeting if I remember right, where this topic could be discussed with Jolla’s personal
The screen recorder would be handy! Also I would love to have native Lemmy app Sorry off topic, sending love to all the devs 
I feel like this has already been discussed in the past; nevertheless, there’s no reason to think the idea through again. The world changes constantly, so the results of previous discussions might no longer apply.
Regarding who takes this on, I think there’s more than one viable path:
If Jolla does it: There’s already some infrastructure for the voluntary subscription, so adding a bounty/crowdfunding layer for specific OS-features could build on top of it? They know what’s realistic and fits into the roadmap, have the processes for testing and have the knowledge for implementation. I have the impression that there aren’t currently enough voluntary subscriptions to make it work, but coupling it could boost subs, which is also good for mid-/long-term planning and sustainability.
Of course, Jolla won’t develop any arbitrary non-essential apps, so this is more for the features in Sailfish OS itself.
If the community does it: The Sailmates association might be a good fit for managing community funds, serving as a legal base, and a financial hub. There’s already some existing experience in getting and handling funds.
This model would work well for any apps, and in a limited way for OS features (by providing PRs to SFOS’s Open Source Repositories).
And it could be a mix of any of the two variants.
You’d think so but mostly people don’t care.
Lemmy app
should be doable
This is mystery to me, would be super handy to record the problems people encounter… For example it would be much easier to record symptoms when phone goes crazy
!!!
To me as well but it’s too cool of an idea to pass on so it still sits in my open tabs
No I’m not doing it 
I have no interest in whatever… that is
From what I see it’s just link aggregator so RSS feed? There’s api to grab RSS so you can use any of the available RSS apps, even if they can’t make api request directly sure you can make simple program that would proxy it for you. Unless i’m missing something from 30 seconds of research
Great!
Fair, had to try my luck…
Very much possible. Need to research it when I have time. Have to start with what is RSS But always good to learn new things!
I think the idea atleast should be considered and analyzed.
No wonder this community is having hard time growing when the responses are so negative. Shame
Isn’t there already an app for this? Look here: Screenrecorder | OpenRepos.net — Community Repository System (and there is also an aarch64-version of it here)
But have you seen the requests people make?!
Not one minute of thought spent on their feasibility.
@Mister_Magister has a good example, but it’s not like it is the only one.
I’m all for trying to spend more money on people contributing - but i’m afraid it will just be one more megaphone for people that have no idea what it would take - and that would have quite the opposite effect.
Well the bounty system makes it ez, if you ask for 200h of work for 5$ it will just hang in the air forever, if enough people chip in 5$ it might end up being worthwhile, so in theory at least the most popular asks will float to the top (and who cares if non-techie person cannot appraise the amount of work needed, if there is a lot of users also needing that it fixes itself, only problem would be things that require sfos opensourcing, but having 1k ppl wishing a thing might also be good argument to ask jolla on community meetings to opensource needed parts, really no idea where all this negativity is coming from)
yea and it runs at 10fps