I honestly don't think this will be very easy to achieve on a human level. There are plenty of platforms that allow devs to meet sales partners but most people would rather just go at it alone or don't trust others or don't play well with others etc etc.
Even the author of this piece, who testifies to poverty, chooses to ask for global donations rather than seek out a business partner
I think it would be something like "sign up with us and we handle the sales, support, billing, and invoicing".
Lots of open source projects don't need to bring on a business partner, but they might benefit from something like this. Just like not everyone on Kickstarter would go out and raise money by themselves.
The dev would presumably pay through revenue share, because we already established s/he is poor, making a jv where the marketing provider will ask for many adjustments from the dev because they need results fast. It's not a clear cut provider/client relationship and I'm not sure how many devs would choose to pursue this
As an Israeli gaming pm I think this niche as well as other gambling related activities like affiliates are a product of a lack of "resources". too many want web businesses, and too few get funding or help. It's easy to re skin gambling solutions and get started with a working business and the mission to convert as many leads as possible. Most of these "businesses" are tiny (4-6 workers) and are not yet at the point where morality beats "let's put food on the table and grow the business guys!"
They seem to have some sort of system where dirt cheap shit quality products ignoring international copyright laws, are pushed by assembly line workers wearing no safety gear and dying from poisoning, to consumers who then have no legal recourse when a significant portion of the products they buy fail
Several years ago I worked at a company where the system generated uncrackable passwords. They were random jumble of letters and numbers. Nobody could remember them, so guess what? Most people had theirs written on a PostIt note and stuck to their screen or on a slip of paper in their top drawer. Almost as good as leaving the front door key under the mat.
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone.
To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” - Aldous Huxley
