has anyone figured out a paywall model for content gardens? Instead of subscription with regular update expectations, more like a season pass to visit a garden anytime you like, where content grows in a gardened way rather than as a time stream
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now that I've shut down art of gig and created room for next $ project, I'm considering a format like this... a substack for gardening... gardenstack... day pass, monthly pass, annual pass type structures... free areas, special pass-based areas like museums special exhibits
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yeah... roam is idea for this in some ways, but the loading latency, public UX, and permissions architecture is nowhere near ready for that sort of thing yet
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curated destination site, like a national park... you go, you show your pass or buy a day pass, go and wander around, clip/save what you like (like taking photos) and have certain fair-use style take-away rights
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tl;dr no.
The closest is a membership program that comes with access to an evergreen set of resources / pages / data.
e.g. comes with some DTC ranking airtables - but the primary action is "subscribe for the email"
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Def some folks thinking about this space tho! (me included)
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I’ve been looking for this too.
Or for a more SEO friendly model, allowing someone to sponsor a specific page in the garden like an NFT
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this feels like something you might have ideas for?
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Woah, I love the metaphor of letting people in for a season as the garden grows. Super poetic.
I'm doing something kinda similar by giving my lifetime members access to my Obsidian notes, but it's not quite the same thing.
Will have to noodle on this some more.






