Coffee for ubercharged
A few people have been asking about this recently, so I’ve reluctantly caved into immense public pressure, and will now take your pity money. Hopefully I can move up from the alley way I’ve been sleeping in.
Anyway…
I’ve recently undergone some difficult times, and I’m reaching out for help. 
You may have noticed the little “donate” button on the side. Now before you say “madlep is a money grabbing douchebag selling us out!” read on:
For the last several years, I’ve been based in the main office for the software company I work for. Among other things, we had access to a kick ass coffee machine with good quality beans. I’m talking one of those real espresso jobbies with steam, and noises, and dials and crap. It was glorious.
About a month ago, I changed to a different project, and am now based full time at a client site. It’s a good spot. BUT THERE IS NO COFFEE MACHINE!
Well there is, but it’s horrible. One of those vending machine jokes. With powdered milk, and really terrible quality coffee. As far as I can tell, people just use it for getting hot water for their instant coffee (yes, it’s that bad people would rather buy their own instant coffee than the free stuff).
So I’ve taken to buying coffee from a cafe downstairs. After a bit of hunting around I found a good one. Problem is though, this is Melbourne. We have great coffee (so good it ran Starbucks out of the country), but it doesn’t come cheap.
So what does this have to do with ubercharged? Well, this site basically runs on coffee. Usually late night hack fests where I break the site, then get it back working again at 3am and hopefully no one notices. Or writing articles at stupid am (although the new writing crew is doing an excellent job replacing me :D). So I need the coffee to keep going during the day and earn money from a real job so I can do simple stuff, like eat. And pay rent. And have the interwebs.
And this is where you guys come in 
If you could spare a couple of bucks, it would be appreciated. See the little donate link on the side? Click it, or don’t click it. Whatever. But a nice triple-shot long black espresso would sure help out getting new stuff done on the site.
For those that are interested in the serious stuff, no this site really doesn’t cost me that much to run. $8.88 a year to register the domain name, and $13.05 a month for hosting costs. That’s about it. Plus my time. Although I pretty much just consider it a hobby.
And no, I don’t make any money off it at the moment. I had google ads for a bit, but they were crap. And the 5 cents I was making a month wasn’t worth cluttering the site. Everyone blocks them anyway.
madlep on August 10th 2008 in community, ubercharged
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loafaries responded on 10 Aug 2008 at 4:27 pm #
At least you guys get what you pay for. Here in the ’states it’s five bucks for some grainy syrup sitting at the bottom of a cup of scalding hot chocolate milk with redi-whip on the top.
But I feel for ya, man. The transistion from a premium macchiato made by a tiny magical Italian man, to having Folgers in your cup is hard. No amount of flavored coffee creamers can make Folgers good…
waebi responded on 10 Aug 2008 at 5:54 pm #
I dont even like coffee… When my mom was pregnant she couldnt drink coffee as long as i was “in” her
But i agree, you need something to “keep you up and going”.
chrizz responded on 10 Aug 2008 at 8:32 pm #
As one of your link partner we donated 5 AUD (that’s about 3.05 €). You and your crew are writing amazing articles (we sometimes report of and link to your site :). So we wanted to thank you. But we’re also a bunch of voluntary writing apes with almost no money, so 5 AUD is as much we can afford :]
greetz chrizz
(from tfportal.de, germany’s biggest tf2 site)
supremesonic responded on 11 Aug 2008 at 12:40 am #
That’s it, this site has sold out. I’m never coming here again. Madlep sucks, trying to leech out money out of us.
But seriously, I might donate something when I get paid. Or I might spend it all on myself and laugh at your caffeine withdrawal. Which is more entertaining, I wonder..
madlep responded on 11 Aug 2008 at 8:18 am #
@chrizz - w00! Cheers
Spooner responded on 11 Aug 2008 at 9:00 am #
Didn’t I already donate? That $3.95 for one weeks access?
I’m not sure if you got the money or not, but that giraffe porn got me through a lonely few days.
Hmmm…. might have been a different site I’m thinking of.
jinja_ninja responded on 11 Aug 2008 at 8:18 pm #
Coffee FTL!
Tea FTW!
…then again, I am a “pommie bastard” from England.
But I understand what you mean Madlep. Going from quality tea to cheap-ass crap is painful.
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