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Patreon: You have too many employees. You are trying to do too much. You are not a tech company. Your business model should be that you facilitate transacti

Patreon: You have too many employees. You are trying to do too much. You are not a tech company. Your business model should be that you facilitate transactions between multiple parties. To do this, you take a small cut, on top of the transaction fees the banks take that you pass on. Stop being greedy.

kalleboo 7y ago
> You are trying to do too much What I'm trying to figure out is, what ARE they doing? From the patron end of things at least, I barely see any new features at all. If they were adding like streaming support, their own patron chat (instead of just linking to Discord), video hosting (instead of everyone using unlisted YouTube videos), etc, then I'd agree they're trying to do too much, but I don't even know what they ARE doing?
- busterarm 7y ago
  I'm really just referring to their aspirations -- the thing justifying their funding, hiring and size. I feel like you could run that whole company with 20 people.
  - dwoozle 7y ago
    You have clearly not worked in payments, just dealing with the fraud at that scale is more than 20 people.
    - rak00n 7y ago
      That sounds like a great start up idea. Cloudflare of payment fraud.
      - jmalicki 7y ago
        It's called Sift https://sift.com/ https://sift.com/
- dzhiurgis 7y ago
  Giving links early to unlisted videos to people who subscribe to that channel. Surprised YouTube didn't kill them yet.
devwastaken 7y ago
This. Patreons purpose is to make it possible for many to pay content creators, with some rewards the creators themselves make. Patreon needs to understand that they have nothing unique other than their name, and will be replaced tomorrow if they can't optimize around their core functionality.