Supercharge.info Funding Help
All, I don't post on TMC a lot. I mostly post over on the Tesla Motors forum. I am not an owner, but a MAJOR supporter of all things Tesla (and I will be an owner one day). You may often see me posting on articles arguing with Tesla haters with screen name 9awesomeb or buddyroe. For now, I daily (really hourly) follow the progress of the SuperCharger network. One of the sites I use a lot to follow the progress is supercharge.info. I'm not sure of the gentleman's real name, but "Blueshift" created the site and maintains it diligently. He has added MANY features over the 18 months he's had it up. He actually does a better job than Tesla does with their map. Yesterday morning, the site was down because the registration with godaddy had elapsed. This got me to thinking that there are costs to Blueshift and MANY hours of work to make this valuable tool available to everyone. So, I mentioned on the Tesla forum that we should come up with a crowd funding to help Blueshift with his expenses and maybe to take his family out to dinner on us. I was just raised by my parents to not take advantage of someone and I think we all are by allowing Blueshift to carry the burden of his site alone. It was suggested that if someone would create the crowd fund account, many people would give. So, since I know "someone" normally never steps up, I figured I could do it. I have never done one of these. I analyzed a few of the sites and read reviews. I decided to go with gofundme.com because they had low rates and good reviews. Unfortunately, and I didn't learn until afterwards, they don't take paypal (they take wepay, debit, and credit cards). I have set a modest goal of $1000. I didn't want to set it too high to give the impression that this was some type of scam. If, in a few months or in a year, we want to do another one, we can. For now, I have suggested a $10 donation from those that feel that supercharge.info is useful to them (and they can afford it). So far, in only 12 hours, it is up to $295. Pretty unbelievable.
Anyway, I wanted to get the word out here on this forum since there seems to be a much bigger audience here than at the Tesla Motors forums. Also, if you are a member of any Facebook Tesla groups, please post the info there. Thanks everyone for your consideration. Here's the info. Thanks everyone!!
BlueShift's Fund - Supercharge.info
Oh, and BTW, I have told Blueshift that I will add him to the gofundme account or send him the money (however he wants to do it). I will update the progress on the "Enhanced Supercharger Map: zoom in, change range indicators" thread in the General forum on teslamotors.com and here if this thread generates any interest. I just want to make sure everyone is completely comfortable that Blueshift receives the funds they donate.
PS. Is it possible to embed a widget in this thread? I wanted to do that so I could put the gofundme widget that includes more info about the account in the thread, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.