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I need to build a business on Coracle if I want to keep working on it. One thing that makes this hard is that I refuse to make my users the product. I will not sell your data.

However, what does everyone think of a referral/ad model? Sponsored results in search, sponsored relay suggestions, etc, with an option to pay to turn them off. Is this unethical?

Of course, my ideal business model would be a freemium service — get the basics for free, pay for some bells and whistles. But that would require much more development effort to get started.

Now I'm just brain dumping, but I guess I could start a freemium model on a purely volunteer basis, and issue a badge or something for supporters, ala patreon/kickstarter?

What do you guys think?

Kieran 2y ago

Im in the same boat, I like how LNBits does there paid relay setup, the per MB storage cost of events is probably how i will move forward with snort relay

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Mazin 2y ago

I’ve seen this floating around but doesn’t make any sense to me. Storage cost of events is not at all the issue in terms of resource consumption.

I think individual bandwidth consumption is a much better metric of the load the user is putting on your relay.

pam 2y ago

From how I see it it rn, diff clients seem to have diff vibe. Snort has ease of larger crowd. The rev stream can be based on tools that needs high volume of users and lower funds per person. Collectively it will be high. Coracle is diff it’s building specific tools and seems more of business centric/serious users. Iris has serious users, dev friendly and social users. I think in app or freemium may not work for you but might work for coracle and Iris. I think rev sharing with creative providers or other similar platforms might benefit you and your users.

I could be completely wrong. That’s how I’m seeing it right now