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RE: chainBB's path forward - a discussion on revenue
Most modern services providers also sell your data in order to give it to you free, which is not what I'm looking to do. I do think at some point in the future it could likely be free (once the ball is rolling with beneficiary rewards), but I think in this early gold rush state where people are claiming ground, there has to be a cost associated to it.
Adoption also comes from the general user, who aren't going to be creating forums, but instead using the forums already provided :)
Thank you though! Forced me to sit and think "should it actually just be free?". Currently though, I'm not so sure.
It doesn't really matter how they manage to afford doing it, what matters is the user experience. :)
This is good point and probably enough to justify the lowest tier price. On the other hand, it has to take off first, if it is to become a real gold rush.
This might be true. Or the price might be enough to make a potential community manager to use another service instead of chainBB.
Note that it might not be so easy to acquire STEEM if you're a fresh steemit user. And there will be many of those.
This is something else to think about - how to make the account registration and management easier to use than what is currently in steemit. We don't want only the technically savvy communities here, do we? :)
BTW, sorry for just being critical - I'm just trying to help. I love the whole thing, and huge props to you for starting it. :)
If 10 STEEM is too much for community owners, I can offer people to pay the fee and create the forum for them. Not sure if that is a smart thing and it is probably limited to the first 4 people asking, but adoption is always great!
I'd like to reserve one of those slots. lol
All of these good points. And no worries about being critical, it's helpful and I'm not going to take feedback personally. I appreciate the help :)
This is a huge issue and I haven't even begun to tackle it. It reaches far outside the scope of chainBB and into the entire Steem ecosystem. Initially I'm targeting existing Steem users as the core user - but in order to expand beyond that, the issue of account creation is going to need solving.
Unfortunately the fact that new accounts require funding puts a massive barrier up. There's been a lot of talk on how to fix this but no solution has been implemented yet.