Industry: Tech
Coding and IT streamer donations in Georgia
Coding, dev and IT streams are growing fast in Georgia: live coding a pet project, fixing a bug, DevOps, and tutorials. On Donator such a streamer collects donations by any bank card, Georgian or foreign, so supporters abroad and the Georgian diaspora can give too. The alert lights up next to the code in an instant, and the accumulated total settles straight into a Georgian bank, in GEL.
How an IT streamer earns
A programming audience is small but engaged and able to pay. Donations often become the main form of thanks for technical content, because viewers value knowledge shown live.
With Donator, viewers send a donation by card with no registration. It works for any format: live coding, code review, algorithm walk-throughs, or a home-lab build.
An alert that never covers your IDE
The donation alert shows through an OBS Browser Source, and you decide where it sits: a screen corner, beside the terminal, or on the pause screen. The donor name and message appear in real time without breaking your flow.
Nothing to install: the Browser Source takes a link and works right away.
| Donator | Foreign service | |
|---|---|---|
| Payment | Any card, GEL | Often needs a foreign wallet |
| Payout | Straight to a Georgian account, in GEL | Often hard or limited |
| Alert placement | Free to position via OBS | Similar |
Questions from IT streamers
- Can I add the alert over my code screen?
- Yes. Since the alert overlay runs as an OBS Browser Source, you get full control over where it sits and how big it is, so your IDE or terminal stays fully visible.
- Does it work for live coding on YouTube?
- Yes. The alert overlay works on any platform where you use OBS, including YouTube and Twitch.
- How much does Donator take?
- Donator holds back a small platform fee to keep the service running, and pays the rest to the streamer in GEL, straight to a Georgian bank.
- Does a viewer need an account?
- No. A viewer sends a donation in one tap by any bank card, Georgian or foreign, with no account to create.
- Why Donator instead of YouTube's or Twitch's own tools?
- YouTube Super Thanks and Twitch bits are locked to a single platform, and the payment runs through that platform's own system. Donator works differently: as a Georgian service, it accepts any bank card, Georgian or foreign, so developers with fans in the diaspora or abroad can still get supported, and every payout lands directly in a Georgian bank in GEL. Foreign tools like DonationAlerts and Streamlabs target other markets and often demand a foreign wallet, whereas Donator was built Georgian-language-first, making it the most direct route for donations inside Georgia.
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Donator: Georgia's first and best donation platform for streamers, on its way to becoming the only platform a streamer needs and expanding across the Caucasus region.
In official partnership with Georgia's leading banks, TBC and Bank of Georgia.
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