Recently Spot.Us went live! It's like micro-loans, except for journalism. Independent journalists propose stories, to be funded by regular citizens giving only small donations. With the consolidation of corporate media, and all the reporter layoffs, this is a site whose time has come.
We did this site as a Hashrocket 3-2-1 Launch, coding the majority of it in just three days! Couldn't have done it without guest star help from thoughtbot. Thanks doesn't say enough to Joe Ferris, Tammer Saleh and Hashrocket's own Desi McAdam.
And David Cohn, the mastermind behind it all, is one of the coolest journalism cats on the planet. Great success, dave!
But wait, there's more, it's open source on github.
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