Founding Members Badges Are Here!
By MakerViking
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Category: Announcements
Founding Member badges are here! Support TinkerAtlas with a one-time donation and get an exclusive badge on your profile and posts. Four tiers available from Bronze to Platinum. Help build the maker community while showing off your early supporter status!
<p class="mb 2" Hey everyone!</p <p class="mb 2" So I've been working on something special for all of you who've been supporting TinkerAtlas, and it's finally ready: Founding Member badges!</p <h2 class="font bold" What's This All About?</h2 <p class="mb 2" You know how some of you have been asking how you can help support the platform? Well, here's the deal. Running TinkerAtlas takes resources (hosting isn't free, and neither is my sugar addiction while coding at 2 AM), and I wanted to create a way to recognize the awesome people who help keep this place running.</p <p class="mb 2" Founding Members are basically the heroes who throw some support our way to help cover costs and keep me motivated to add all those features you keep requesting. And yes, I see all your feature requests. ALL of them. Even that one about adding a "print failed" counter. Still thinking about that one.</p <h2 class="font bold" The Shiny Badge Part</h2 <p class="mb 2" Here's the fun bit: when you become a Founding Member, you get an exclusive badge that shows up on your profile AND on every single post you make. But wait, there's more! Your posts also get a colored border that matches your badge tier, so they stand out in the feed. It's like a permanent high five that everyone can see. No more wondering if people know you're awesome. Now they'll know for sure.</p <h2 class="font bold" The Tiers (Because Everyone Loves Tiers)</h2 <p class="mb 2" Based on whatever you decide to contribute (lifetime total), you get different badge levels and matching post borders:</p <p class="mb 2" <strong Bronze</strong ($10 $24): You're officially part of the gang! <strong Silver</strong ($25 $99): Look at you, being all supportive and stuff <strong Gold</strong ($100 $499): Okay, now you're just showing off (but seriously, thank you) <strong Platinum</strong ($500+): I'm not crying, you're crying. This is incredible.</p <h2 class="font bold" How It Works</h2 <p class="mb 2" Super simple: make a one time donation of whatever amount feels right to you. Could be $10, could be $100, could be whatever you've got in your couch cushions. You can donate through the Founding Members page or Patreon if that's your thing. Once you do, I'll add your badge to your account.</p <p class="mb 2" Fair warning: I'm doing this manually for now because I haven't figured out the automatic system yet. So if your badge doesn't appear instantly, don't panic. I'm probably either sleeping, printing something, or stuck debugging why a button is three pixels off where it should be.</p <h2 class="font bold" Why This Matters</h2 <p class="mb 2" Look, I'm building TinkerAtlas because I love this community and I think we deserve our own space that's built specifically for makers. Your support literally keeps the servers running and gives me the time to build the features we actually want, not what some random investor thinks we need.</p <h2 class="font bold" Join the Club</h2 <p class="mb 2" If you want to grab your Founding Member badge and help keep TinkerAtlas growing, check out the <a target=" blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text blue 600 hover:text blue 800 dark:text blue 400 dark:hover:text blue 200 underline cursor pointer transition colors" href="https://tinkeratlas.com/founding members" Founding Members page</a .</p <p class="mb 2" Huge thanks to everyone who's already jumped in as a Founding Member! Your badges are live and looking fantastic. Seriously, every time I see one pop up in the feed, it reminds me why I'm doing this.</p <p class="mb 2" Let's keep building something awesome together!</p <p class="mb 2" 🔧 Thomas / MakerViking</p
