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Gamerize – Marketplace for Gamers and Fans

2 points by quinnvaughn 7y ago

I started a company called Gamerize. We're a marketplace where users can pay to play video games with their favorite youtubers/streamers/celebrities/etc. We're basically a management system where you can schedule game play time with your audience easier. We will also eventually be providing analytics so you can find collaborative opportunities with other youtubers/streamers to help grow your channel, as well as plenty of other things. If you're worried people won't pay for it, we also have the option of allowing free sessions so you can just use it as a way to grow your channel, until you believe you can start monetizing it. We're looking for alpha gamers to test it out to make sure you actually enjoy using the product. We have data to indicate users want this, so we really want data to show that the other side of our marketplace wants this. The alpha itself will be completely free so we can just get as much feedback as possible. If this sounds like something you're interested in, feel free to email me at quinn@gamerize.io

Zekio 7y ago
I wonder what you offer that existing platforms don't, considering that people have tiers on patreon where you can get to play with the streamer or donation tiers on other platforms for a similar reward/benefit
- quinnvaughn 7y ago
  Yeah so if you have like... 5 people who want to play with you, I'm not sure if we would as of the current product (maybe once we had analytics, a huge platform to help you grow your audience, whatever else, sure it's still valuable). However once you start to get more people, scheduling that effectively would basically be impossible. I've never used Patreon, but I'm fairly confident they don't do that at all for you, they just help with the payment, correct?
  - quinnvaughn 7y ago
    We do minute to minute scheduling (which is really hard, especially since the game time is dynamic) for you so you can maximize the money you get/the people you can play with as well as making it much easier for your audience to actually set that up, which they would have no control over using something like Patreon.
- quinnvaughn 7y ago
  The easiest analogy I can make is, someone COULD rent their room/apartment out through Craigslist and that's what people did before Airbnb. Craigslist was a horizontal platform that had no concept of renting out your room though, whereas Airbnb was specifically designed to do just that and make the process as seamless as possible. Patreon is the same way where it's just a horizontal platform for content creators that has no concept of scheduling games, and if you go there, you have no idea if it actually has that or if it's actually going to get fulfilled, because they don't help you if it doesn't. Whereas Gamerize is this curated experience designed to make that as efficient as possible for both the fan and the gamer, just like Airbnb is for renting a room/apartment/etc.

2 points by quinnvaughn 7y ago

Zekio 7y ago

I wonder what you offer that existing platforms don't, considering that people have tiers on patreon where you can get to play with the streamer or donation tiers on other platforms for a similar reward/benefit

quinnvaughn 7y ago
Yeah so if you have like... 5 people who want to play with you, I'm not sure if we would as of the current product (maybe once we had analytics, a huge platform to help you grow your audience, whatever else, sure it's still valuable). However once you start to get more people, scheduling that effectively would basically be impossible. I've never used Patreon, but I'm fairly confident they don't do that at all for you, they just help with the payment, correct?
- quinnvaughn 7y ago
  We do minute to minute scheduling (which is really hard, especially since the game time is dynamic) for you so you can maximize the money you get/the people you can play with as well as making it much easier for your audience to actually set that up, which they would have no control over using something like Patreon.
quinnvaughn 7y ago
The easiest analogy I can make is, someone COULD rent their room/apartment out through Craigslist and that's what people did before Airbnb. Craigslist was a horizontal platform that had no concept of renting out your room though, whereas Airbnb was specifically designed to do just that and make the process as seamless as possible. Patreon is the same way where it's just a horizontal platform for content creators that has no concept of scheduling games, and if you go there, you have no idea if it actually has that or if it's actually going to get fulfilled, because they don't help you if it doesn't. Whereas Gamerize is this curated experience designed to make that as efficient as possible for both the fan and the gamer, just like Airbnb is for renting a room/apartment/etc.