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Yes. Creators should upload content to Imgur and ask supporters to pay them directly through PayPal. That’s a fantastic alternative to Patreon.
by finfinfin 4y ago
Yes. Creators should upload content to Imgur and ask supporters to pay them directly through PayPal. That’s a fantastic alternative to Patreon.
- deanCommie 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- cowtools 4y agoI mean, he's right. all these file-sharing services like dropbox merely exist because the general public doesn't know how to use something like bittorrent. Maybe you can grift off of that ignorance for a while, but that doesn't mean it's a sustainable business model.
- onetokeoverthe 4y ago
- deanCommie 4y agoI think you're missing the forest for the trees. You can apply a variance of that philosophy onto EVERYTHING. "Automatic transmission merely exists because the general public doesn't know how to use something like manual transmission" "Calculators merely exist because the general public doesn't know how to use something like a slide ruler" Note, these are analogies, I'm not saying Patreon is as innovative or world-significant as either. But it IS optimized for a very specific use case, and it does it incredibly well.