Changing the world, 1 dollar at a time.
DevFund is the belief that there are thousands of people out there, people like you and me, who will be willing to give one dollar towards making the world a better place for independent developers.
During our initial ramp up, DevFund will be focusing on independent developers in the Open Source Community. Specifically those brave souls who proved that the iPhone could be something more than an iPod that calls people.
DevFund operates as a rally point for your fundraising activities. We provide tools to track how much you have raised, and who has donated to your project. Each developer that creates an account will provide a paypal account address. DevFund constructs a giving form with this email. None of your money is ever in the hands of DevFund.
If you are asking if DevFund will have gradients, drop shadows and all that rot, then no. If you are asking if we will provide API's to our data, and community aspects that will encourage people to donate and developers to innovate, then yes.
The DevFund dream is to support all development in the Open Source ecosystem. We have chosen Open Source apps on the iPhone as a starting point, not an end unto itself.
As for commercial apps, we have plans to support your development efforts as well, but it will most likely include a nominal fee and will come on line once we have a good start with our Open side of the site. Hey you are getting rich, why can't we?