Developer asking for donations from Homey users

[Gruijter]

Ever since the first availability of Homey I am enthousiastic about the product. I started developing apps for myself, and decided to share them with other Homey users in the appstore.

I get joy from the positive feedback from users, and from the occasional donations I receive.

To be able to test and maintain apps I have now arrived at a point where I need a special test/development Homey. There has been a debate on this forum on who should invest in what, and why. I invite you to read that debate here. Since I am only building apps as a hobby, I would like your support in buying a development Homey. I am also an Alpha tester for Athom, so I can get a special test/development Homey at a sponsored price of 222 euro from Athom.

My request to you is the following:

• If you want to support my request, please donate before 15 February.
• I will update the status of the received donations in this forum topic.
• If the goal of 222 euro is reached on 15 February, I will buy the Homey
• If 300 euro is reached on 15 February, I will buy a regular ‘unlocked’ Homey
• Any money ‘left over’ will be donated to Docters without Borders
• If the goal is not reached, I will donate any received money to Docters without Borders

THE GOAL HAS BEEN REACHED, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR DONATIONS

Donations received:

Date	Name	Amount
11.01	Robin Gruijter	20 euro
11.01	Danee de Kruyff	10 euro
11.01	rick peterse	10 euro
11.01	Marcel Rijskamp	9,31 euro
11.01	Ton Meek	5 euro
11.01	Robert Klep	13,37 euro
11.01	Leendert de Kok	5 euro
11.01	Ernst Van Den Bosch	10 euro
11.01	Ja Pekkeriet	9,31 euro
11.01	Jurgen Huijbregts	17,32 euro
11.01	a J Rockall	10 euro
11.01	Fikri El Aoumrani	5 euro
11.01	Julien Moors	5 euro
11.01	Jamie Peake	10 euro
11.01	Glenn Seegers	10 euro
11.01	Rwj Wissenburg	2,50 euro
11.01	Miriam Van der Heijden	5 euro
11.01	Patrik Hultgren	10 euro
11.01	Bas Jansen	10 euro
11.01	Tjerk Langelaar	15 euro
11.01	Gerrit Ekelmans	10 euro
11.01	Viktor Gjorgjiev	25 euro
11.01	Toby Leurs	10 euro
11.01	Patrick Blijie	15 euro
11.01	Dan Buzatu	15 euro
12.01	Herman Kuster	5 euro
12.01	Philipp Schnittgerr	10 euro
12.01	Martijn Hoogenbosch	10 euro
12.01	Toon Vos	10 euro
12.01	Axel Baas	2 euro
TOTAL		303,81 euro

(last updated on 12.01.2019 09.02)

[Gruijter]

[Rickp]

keep up the great work (y)

Would prefer to see you reach the 300 mark so you can buy a homey without NDA and to give another signal to athom that their discount is a joke. Just my 2 cents.

[Rocodamelshekima]

If the goal of 222 euro is reached on 15 February

What’s with 15 februari?

Would prefer to see you reach the 300 mark so you can buy a homey without NDA

Agree.

[Gruijter]

If donations reach the 300 euro, I will get the ‘regular’ Homey that is not locked.

[Gruijter]

the date 15 february is just to set a time limit, otherwise it could potentially take years to reach the amount, or even never and money would just sit doing nothing on my paypal account…

[Rocodamelshekima]

Fair enough.

[Koktail]

I don’t use any of your app’s but i want to encourage you to keep helping the community!
All my apps are broken (v2 BLE core errors) and because of lacking an second Homey also… So i know how you feel!

[Eternity]

Made a donation…I love the Magister App!

Ernst

[anon2681894]

donated <3

[RoyWissenburg]

I did a smal donation, because iam glad with you as a devolper of useful apps. And also because this topic.

How community developers get awarded by Athom

Same as @2Be I am not a developer. Same as him, I would like to send best regards and respect to all developers that made Homey an almost complete HA controller. Every now and them I have donated to some you devs for the incredible work. I will continue to do so for those that apps make my life easier. But I can imagine the incentive you guys could have to carry on developing your apps if there would be an app store for devs only as @TedTolboom mentioned long time ago. I did also mentioned tha…

I came to the conclusion that it wouldnt be fair to other devolpers witch making apps that iam using, so i did a donation to any app wich is maked by a community devolper and iam using (and if they have a donation button on the app store page.

Why € 2.50 per app?! Iam thinking it would be a nice price wich i would want to pay per app if they had a app store where you had to pay for a app

[Julien_Moors]

Donated !

[jeroenvano]

Donated! Love your Enelogic and Youless app

[JPe4619]

Donated and will ask PayPal where the 69 cents have gone.

[Gruijter]

I think it is because you used the second donate button, where you can use a credit card. Paypal charges costs when this button is used. If you already have a paypal account you can use the first donate button, and the extra cost is not charged (depending on how you pay)

[Gerrit_Ekelmans]

Donated specially because of the youless app. @Gruijter succes.
If you have more then €300 please help also @Koktail , he can use specially now with the BLE problem also a second homey, a lot of people waiting for a solution for the beacon app

[Gruijter]

I will try to help in any case. Community developers must always stick together

[2Be]

Haven’t used your apps, but love apps like Magister. Maybe when my kids get older I can use it on my Homey V4.3. Send some Money your way.

[Gruijter]

The minimum amount of 222 euro has just been reached, in just a few hours time. It is prove of an increadible support from Homey users and fellow developers.

I will keep the donations button open untill the maximum of 300 euro to buy a normal (unlocked) Homey.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT

[DaneedeKruyff]

Well done @Gruijter and Community; thanks for showing your appreciation for the community developers

I’m sure the 300 will be reached so you can get a retail Homey without restrictions.