I like it—this seems like a good approximation of the “instant donate-a-dollar button” that Marcello (I think) suggested as a potential iPhone app earlier. Does anyone know if progress has been made on such an app, by the way?
My father spent some time creating such an app, but I don’t think it is useful for the purpose of diverting sudden, altruistic impulses toward high impact charities, largely because it requires you to manually input your credit card/paypal info each time you try a donation, which is enough effort to reintroduce the original trivial inconvenience. If anyone knows how to fix that sort of problem, I could get the code for you.
I don’t have to input my financial info when I use paypal—I just log in with my username and password, which can be cached for those who don’t like even that inconvenience; and click on “Pay now”.
Yeah, I think the point was that the app would have some way to “preload” that information so you wouldn’t have to reenter it every time. I’m not sure if that’s viable from a coding perspective, but it seems like it would work to solve the main problem here.
I like it—this seems like a good approximation of the “instant donate-a-dollar button” that Marcello (I think) suggested as a potential iPhone app earlier. Does anyone know if progress has been made on such an app, by the way?
My father spent some time creating such an app, but I don’t think it is useful for the purpose of diverting sudden, altruistic impulses toward high impact charities, largely because it requires you to manually input your credit card/paypal info each time you try a donation, which is enough effort to reintroduce the original trivial inconvenience. If anyone knows how to fix that sort of problem, I could get the code for you.
I don’t have to input my financial info when I use paypal—I just log in with my username and password, which can be cached for those who don’t like even that inconvenience; and click on “Pay now”.
Yeah, I think the point was that the app would have some way to “preload” that information so you wouldn’t have to reenter it every time. I’m not sure if that’s viable from a coding perspective, but it seems like it would work to solve the main problem here.