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Paid relays are thriving 😀

They're growing, not thriving. Right now my revenue covers about half my cloud costs.

Doesn't matter as it's all about the experiment, but paid relays at scale will need to make money. Not a lot - mostly they will be a utility business so the time costs of management can be spread across thousands? tens thousands? users.

My view is that it will shake out to annual costs of between $2-$5 per user per year, maybe less if management time is minimal.

Always remember, it's relay owners who has to deal with DMCA issues. THAT could be the time suck that really pushes costs.

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William 2y ago

Yes, I totally agree with you. My goal is to make it run on its own without funds. Although I haven’t spent a lot of money at present, it‘s better to have a monthly or annual subscription plan in the future. The biggest problem is that it has taken me a lot of time to do some development, especially now. As the number of users increases, the problem will definitely increase, and the human and material resources required will also increase. I believe everything will be fine.

William 2y ago

Although I didn‘t promote it, someone joined in every day. The atmosphere here is really good. Although I spent a lot of time here, I feel very happy.

Ian "nostr.naut.social" D 2y ago

Yeah, I get 1-2 joins almost every day too. But I need 3-4 to break even. But, it's fun. I'll always be able to say I had the first Uk Paid Relay, which will be fun until until no one knows what means. I also wrote the first uk.finance but that stopped meaning anything around 1998...:-)

d4n 2y ago

I'm currently working on launching a paid relay too. If I can manage to break even, I will be very happy and it will bring value to the network.