Live coding streamer donations in Georgia

Viewers often want a specific feature added or a bug fixed. A donation moves that request to the front of the line, and you pick the next task by the donor's wish.

On Donator a viewer pays by card without registering, so naming the next bug to fix and backing the stream happen in one move.

If two viewers request conflicting changes, the larger donation takes priority, turning audience feedback into a transparent, crowd-funded backlog.

The donation alert shows through an OBS Browser Source, and you place it in a screen corner so the VS Code editor, the terminal, and the code shot stay free.

During a compile or a test run, the alert appears briefly and never breaks concentration, so the line of code always stays visible.

The alert message shows the donor's exact request, so the rest of chat can read which feature was just funded without you having to say it aloud while mid-debug.

A developer community often reaches beyond borders. Because payment works with any card, Georgian or foreign, a developer in the diaspora backs a project just as easily as a local viewer.

Placing a Donator link beside a GitHub repository gives viewers a short path to supporting the project.

Developers who follow the project on GitHub or Discord but miss the live session can still donate via the link and leave their suggestion in the message field.

Donations from your coding streams land in a Georgian bank, TBC or Bank of Georgia, straight in GEL, so the server bill gets paid with no currency conversion and no foreign wallet.

Donator was built in Georgia and works as an official partner of TBC and Bank of Georgia; on donations that come in during your dev streams the platform fee is 3%.

For a freelancing developer, having stream income land in the same Georgian bank account as contract payments means no extra foreign wallets or currency overhead.

Many streamers start with DonationAlerts or Streamlabs, because those are the names people type when they search for an OBS donation alert, a donation page, or an alternative to a foreign tool. StreamElements often shows up in the same shortlist.

In Georgia those products are often built for other markets: foreign wallets, awkward withdrawals, or fees that never land cleanly in GEL. Patreon and PayPal still fit some creator formats, but they do not always replace live stream donations with payout to a Georgian bank.

Donator is built so a viewer can pay with any card, Georgian or foreign, the alert can show in OBS right away, and the money settles in GEL to TBC or Bank of Georgia. If you already used DonationAlerts or Streamlabs, you can keep the same alert habit and fix payouts locally.