I agree with an alternative to Patreon. Any good market requires competition. Patreon eating up Subbable breeds a monopoly - which is always a bad thing.
Four of Patreon's Problems that you can hopefully solve:
(1) Embedding support for video and other media - sometimes this works, sometimes it does not work. You would think that after these years in operation, Patreon would have fixed this issue by now. Hopefully, your front-end infrastructure would be based around HTML5 - so that these issues would be easily resolved.
(2) Manual Payment processing - its 2016 and they are still doing manual payment processing. Every Creator should receive their payments by the last day of the month - no exceptions. Automated payment processing would also chase away "Pledge Thieves".
(3) Manual Curation of Featured Artists - its 2016 and they are still curating featured artists manually. A number of people have complained to Patreon about this - and they admitted that this is all they can do for now - since they still dont have an algorithm to curate featured artists. Some artists would stay for weeks on the Featured page - while others would disappear in a day or two. A really "backward" process to say the least.
(4) Sloppy search algorithm - what can I say about this one that has not been said already - lol. There needs to be a proper way to search and filter results based on various sets of criteria. Patreon still has not figured out how to setup an Advanced Search page as yet.
If you can solve these four issues, I can guarantee that you would be LIGHT YEARS ahead of Patreon.
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How To Jump Way Ahead Of Patreon
Date: 2016-02-08 05:21 pm (UTC)Four of Patreon's Problems that you can hopefully solve:
(1) Embedding support for video and other media - sometimes this works, sometimes it does not work. You would think that after these years in operation, Patreon would have fixed this issue by now. Hopefully, your front-end infrastructure would be based around HTML5 - so that these issues would be easily resolved.
(2) Manual Payment processing - its 2016 and they are still doing manual payment processing. Every Creator should receive their payments by the last day of the month - no exceptions. Automated payment processing would also chase away "Pledge Thieves".
(3) Manual Curation of Featured Artists - its 2016 and they are still curating featured artists manually. A number of people have complained to Patreon about this - and they admitted that this is all they can do for now - since they still dont have an algorithm to curate featured artists. Some artists would stay for weeks on the Featured page - while others would disappear in a day or two. A really "backward" process to say the least.
(4) Sloppy search algorithm - what can I say about this one that has not been said already - lol. There needs to be a proper way to search and filter results based on various sets of criteria. Patreon still has not figured out how to setup an Advanced Search page as yet.
If you can solve these four issues, I can guarantee that you would be LIGHT YEARS ahead of Patreon.
Looking forward to your project.