How Taylor Swift inspired this Philly dev’s charity hack

Generate money for charity while you sleep.
It works like this: Loop a white noise track and the royalties will go toward charity. (In this case, Watsi and charity: water.)
Developer Chris Overcash built the tool, called Donate Your Streams, with his sister, Dana Overcash. They also created the tracks.
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“Each person can generate ~$2.88 per night if they loop the tracks while sleeping,” Overcash wrote. “At scale this could generate A LOT of money for some great causes.”

If you played the water track this weekend, you helped fund clean water with @charitywater #donateyourstreams pic.twitter.com/KT7wK173pp

— DonateYourStreams (@DonateStreams) August 3, 2015

They built it to show the Y Combinator Fellowship, to which they’re applying, that they could ship something. Overcash’s last charity hacking project was Project Burrito, which aimed to feed the needy with rewards meals earned through a shared Qdoba loyalty card.
Overcash, 32, of Chestnut Hill, was inspired by a band that did something similar to fund their tour and Taylor Swift’s accidental eight-second track of static that topped iTunes in Canada.