Seeking feedback on idea: alternative to Patreon

[perldiver.livejournal.com]

Hi folks,

I messaged a few of you about this already, but was just given mod permission to post it at top level.

I’m a Patreon creator (http://patreon.com/davidstorrs), and a web developer. My business partner and I are frustrated enough with Patreon that we’re building an alternative. We’d like to make sure it does what people actually want so, if you have a minute, I’d really appreciate your feedback.

We think the site should have:

* No percentage taken from your pledges
* Charge patrons immediately to avoid in-and-out “pledge-dodgers”
* Content management for all your content, past and present
* Specify when things should become visible (a.k.a. a publishing queue)
- ...to whom
- ...and for how long
* Ban abusive or exploitative patrons

As far as creators go, our current plan is that early adopters would receive as much storage as they need (within reason!), and future creators would get 1GB of storage for $9.99/month. Again, these are tentative plans and might change as we do more research.

All comments appreciated; a few questions I'd love answers to:

1) Does this sound like a service you would use?

2) Are there any other features you’d like?

3) What is particularly good about Patreon?

4) What issues do you have with Patreon?

Comments

[perldiver.livejournal.com]

Great idea, thank you!

Maybe that could be reward tiered -- $1 gets you the last post, $5 gets you last month, etc. (Choose your own levels and date ranges, of course.)

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

I'd hope the default would be for a supporter to be able to view everything. It wouldn't make much sense to not be able to start at the beginning for anything that has a serial format.

[perldiver.livejournal.com]

I figure it would be a choice of the creator. Those who do serial work can open their entire archive, those who don't can control it.