has anyone tried to build a "pay to use" facebook? If so, why didn't it work? If not, why do you think no one has tried it?
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The barrier of entry is so high in terms of functionality and branding that you’d need a fortune to get caught up.
Not if you start with a small, very specific audience. That's what Facebook did.
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Can't remember the name of the company but someone pitched it in Startup school this sprint's office hours with
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True, college students are young, inquisitive, concupiscent. Matching that with fb in back in 2005 was the perfect combination of timing, demand and well-built social network. Today is different though, I think. Plenty of good options (Insta, snap, tiktok and fb)
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I guess the challenge with communities is rate of adoption: they don’t have much value until they get big, it’s difficult to get them to grow big when they’re a paid service You’d need a seed community of maybe around 1k cool users that don’t pay, and maybe charge from then on
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I wonder if that specific audience may be created if they believe in a common mission, like for us , I am seeing it may be open-ended Play for children till 5 yrs and providing the support this community may need. Trust gets developed too though it’s a a very small group yet.
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Good point. We build it for content creators at http://locals.com .... Each creator has their own subscription-based community where they can engage with their supporters. Time to unbundle.
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1/ Hear me out for a moment...I always wanted to build a social network that encouraged local engagement. Foundations would be based on two things all people care about: their kids (school) and taxes (where are they going locally).
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2/ There would be constrains on flow of information from country/district to next country district and so-on for national audience. So while something may be particularly relevant to local area, it doesn't flood other sections of the network just due to popularity.
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#MeWe is the FB alternative with no ads, no targeting, no data mining, etc. We have a "freemium" revenue model - all the great social features are free, plus there are optional enhancements you can purchase. Nearly 10M users already & growing rapidly!https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/video-embed.html?video_id=6078675583001&embedver=orion …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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