Please do, helps my thinking a lot 🙏
I agree that a "streaming media service" can still be very profitable without copyrights!
Especially with a focus on high quality and speed.
It's the subscription part I'm questioning.
Why wouldn't prepaid credits be superior in a free market?
pay per use versus pay per time?
the ol' micropayment cognitive burden thing, it's just more complicated to keep track of and the deployment of it that is user friendly is also more complicated, like, how do you get around having to show the user their balance somewhere visibly all the time? green dot that turns orange maybe?
simply getting a DM warning that your sub is about due to pay is much simpler
No, I mean: Paying for 21 movie credits vs Paying for a monthly Netflix subscription
it's just the need to make the remaining credit visible in the interface and all the pipes needed for that
people prefer a schedule over an allowance, it's easier to budget for, the downside is the provider must do a bit of actuarial calculation to allow a wide variance of actual usage
but i would use a service that has a credits remaining display in the interface, i like the principle of the simplified accounting
With Nostr and Ecash that interface can be universal (without giving in on privacy) and the UX can be superb.
Imagine buying a pack of 21 Zapflix movie tokens (that you self custody).
You can see and manage these tokens in any app you give access, along with all your other tokens (by category etc).
You can sell these tokens to anyone,at any time, at any price.
it's just waiting for a client and accounting system to happen, basically
Even vendors probably prefer this. Unleashed Chat would never go for subs, for a reason.
