This is a pretty self explanatory feature - I’m a creator but I’m also a patron. I was having a discussion with another creator today about other patreon campaigns that I sub to and I brought up a campaign I liked and how they should check them out - and it dawned on me that it would be nice if I could just send him a 1 month sub to a creator.
The way I envision it is that you let us purchase a code for a monthly sub, send it to someone, and they link it to their active patreon account (codes can’t be used without an account). This would activate the sub for the month they redeem it in - perhaps they get refunded if they don’t use it the month they purchase it (refunded patreon credit that they can use to repurchase the code or another one).
This could also be used to gift current subs out codes randomly - much like Twitch does. A patron could buy 10 subs and gift free months to random or specific people that are already patrons to a person (drive by nice act) - and the creator could get a notice when someone does it and have a prompt to thank them (possible in the underused community section).
They could also get 10 codes and give them out as a prize somewhere.