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15% is not a deep cut. That’s a totally a reasonable cost for smoothly running the infrastructure necessary to support a creator with a monthly subscription mo
by krnlpnc 4y ago
15% is not a deep cut.
That’s a totally a reasonable cost for smoothly running the infrastructure necessary to support a creator with a monthly subscription model.
- fartcannon 4y agoThat's about 10x more that I'd consider reasonable for what is effectly hosting a static website and bulletin board. I think we've all just had our expectations blown out of the water by Steam (and the subsequent app stores).
- deadbunny 4y agoA static website that shows/hides content depending on your subscription level dynamically?
- fartcannon 4y agoI don't know how to respond to that. That's not a complicated thing to do. Patreon gets to take the money they take because they've found a good niche, not because their website can do something that all websites have been able to do since the 1990s. I personally think they take too much for what they provide. That's all. I am very happy they exist, though, because otherwise everyone would just be chasing the algorithm.
- newbie2020 4y ago“Not because their website can do something that all websites have been able to do since the 1990s”. That is describing most money-making websites in existence
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- conradfr 4y agoThere's nothing static about processing payments and providing support.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThat's not "the infrastructure", then, that's one piece of it.
- unity1001 4y agoDoes your static website and bulletin board also process the digital international tax schemes like EU VAT and liberate you of the legal and financial responsibilities of processing and filing each of the payments that you receive one by one?
- cowtools 4y agoNo. It's unacceptable that payment systems charge anything more than a fraction of a percent for each transaction. In any well-designed payment system the marginal cost per transaction is minuscule.
- yazaddaruvala 4y agoPateron should work the same as they enable for any other content creator: They should get paid in donations by their customers.
- tatertots1234 4y agoIn crypto creative and art economies the standard is around 2.5%, with various platforms competing on that by offering lower commissions even down to 0%.