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I can't find information about their actual business model on the site. What could it be? The first thing Rooms.xyz makes me think of is Habbo (Hotel). The deve
by networked 3y ago
I can't find information about their actual business model on the site. What could it be? The first thing Rooms.xyz makes me think of is Habbo (Hotel). The developer could sell extra features (through a subscription), premium items, and space to build in. A voxel editor and custom code make premium items a harder sell: you can replicate them if they aren't very complex and you don't care about the social status of using premium items. The primary premium commodity could instead be space: larger rooms and more rooms per account. They could also charge users for highlighting their rooms in a recommendation system, if they cultivate a community that hangs out on the site.
Edit: There is a line about it in https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/a16z-backed-rooms-xyz-lets-you-build-interactive-3d-rooms-and-simple-games-in-your-browser/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/a16z-backed-rooms-xyz-lets...:
> Eventually, Rooms could monetize by selling objects for purchase, subscriptions or licensing its software for education, but that’s all very much to be determined at this point.