Hi Jason! Benjamin here, co-founder and responsible for the technical side. This is exactly the kind of feedback we are looking for so thanks a lot for commenting.
The delayed-allocation model is mostly a feature of us being in the prototype phase. The main reason is rather technical, because public APIs are missing to directly set up the payment flows from external donors to different charities via the GoodWallet. There are two other minor arguments for at least having the option to accumulate funds first: One is emergency relief. We believe that having a social fund that can easily be directed to emergency relief when needed can be valuable. The second is privacy. Even among highly effective charities, people still have preferences, and we’ve heard people say they would appreciate an option to choose and switch between charities in private.
Having that said, we totally agree with you. Giving GoodWallet users the chance to pre-select a charity to which incoming payments are directed to is something we will certainly add to the platform.
In general, our current situation is mostly resource limited. This is the reason why we kept things as lean as possible. However, we are starting to see interest and would like to drive this forward. Our goal is to register GoodWallet as a non-profit itself and then decide on further product directions. The mini-DAF functionality is something we see fit in perfectly into the overall concept, but we definitely need to explore its practicality further.
Hi Jason! Benjamin here, co-founder and responsible for the technical side. This is exactly the kind of feedback we are looking for so thanks a lot for commenting.
The delayed-allocation model is mostly a feature of us being in the prototype phase. The main reason is rather technical, because public APIs are missing to directly set up the payment flows from external donors to different charities via the GoodWallet.
There are two other minor arguments for at least having the option to accumulate funds first: One is emergency relief. We believe that having a social fund that can easily be directed to emergency relief when needed can be valuable. The second is privacy. Even among highly effective charities, people still have preferences, and we’ve heard people say they would appreciate an option to choose and switch between charities in private.
Having that said, we totally agree with you. Giving GoodWallet users the chance to pre-select a charity to which incoming payments are directed to is something we will certainly add to the platform.
In general, our current situation is mostly resource limited. This is the reason why we kept things as lean as possible. However, we are starting to see interest and would like to drive this forward. Our goal is to register GoodWallet as a non-profit itself and then decide on further product directions. The mini-DAF functionality is something we see fit in perfectly into the overall concept, but we definitely need to explore its practicality further.