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Funding a website without selling user data or advertisements
I have been reading hacker news for quite a while and love what I've found on this site. I am thinking of starting a website but I am having a funding problem. I do not want to sell user data and I really do not like advertisements. I would like to be able to offer the service for free but I also need to be able to pay the bills. Has anybody had any success with alternate funding models? How would I go about making this work?
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- fuzzywalrus 13y agoTwitter and Facebook still haven't answered this question...
- samfisher83 13y agoHow about a freemium model. Some services are free and for some better services you charge something,
- ireadqrcodes 13y agoread this http://www.getelastic.com/7-business-models-for-monetizing-digital-content/ http://www.getelastic.com/7-business-models-for-monetizing-d... what is your website about?
- dyladan 13y agoIf you want to check it out you can at symposium.dyladan.me I don't have any ssl yet though so i'd be wary of putting in any passwords you share with other sites if you are going to sign up.
- Mz 13y agoAs I understand it, Dwarf Fortress survives entirely on donations and Hyperbole and a Half survives entirely on selling products. The author of the second isn't comfortable with either donations or ads.
- joosters 13y agoDonations. Sell stuff that people will pay money for. Get a 2nd job. Kickstarter project with overblown promises. Really, we'd all love to do something and have all the costs magically paid for, but there's no magic solution.