I usually give away memberships on mine to people who generate good content. That way I’m passing myself, so cost is zero, and still spam free.

The couple of times I’ve done it, the users posted an invoice on their own for a particular relay. I just happened to pay them.

I did not find that exploitative and don’t think they found so either.

I think there is actually something powerful in this idea. We know that gifting has more positive psychological impact than buying something for yourself. But for most software we only let people buy for themselves. Steam let’s you gift a game to a friend. But what I’d all SaaS software let you pay for it in a social way. Think nano-dao or sharing circle. These are the services I use. Here are the ones my friends use. What if we could chip in and subscribe together?

Would be great to be able to buy relay vouchers that I can share with others

I would integrate it in the onboarding proces, if a voucher code is entered they get setup automatically with a high quality paid relay

This is a great idea!

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Zapping good content helps too. They can then buy the relay

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