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This is interesting in relations to ST itself: "What If Social Networks Just Aren�t Profitable?"

Posted by Andie Aug 24 '12, 10:55

Here's the beginning of the article:
"Here�s the short version: Every community-based site in the history of the web has essentially been a stab at creating a social network. Most of them fail as businesses, with the rare exception of small, lucky communities that become self-sufficient but not exactly prosperous. What if that�s just the way it is?"

I guess we are the "rare exception of small, lucky communities that become self-sufficient"?

http://powazek.com/posts/3024 (powazek.com)

Responses:

if it meant I had to give up mousehunt ... yep - JenBro Aug 24, 12:11
Poll: Would you pay 1$ a month for facebook? 5$? - Guigue Aug 24, 11:08 16
- I would pay $1 month for it to go away. -- nm - Spawn Aug 24, 11:20
- Nope, I wouldn't pay for FB. I would pay to keep ST going. -- nm - Krusty Aug 24, 11:19
- I think that sort of monetization of a social network misses the point (and I think app.net will fail, also). - Beryllium Aug 24, 11:15 2
  - I'll never forget interviewing for Peapod and them describing their system as being not about selling groceries but about selling customer data - oblique Aug 24, 11:20 1
    - whoa -- nm - Epiphany Aug 24, 11:21
- no -- nm - Epiphany Aug 24, 11:14
- 1, sure. 5, no. -- nm - Strongbad Aug 24, 11:12
- I think I would as long as there's no exodus. FB is only good as long as most people I know are on it -- nm - Guigue Aug 24, 11:12 1
  - right. -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 11:12
- i would rather shell out maybe $25 for a lifetime usage. i would pay $1 / month for ST though. -- nm - Andie Aug 24, 11:12 1
  - absolutely pay $ 1 a month for ST -- nm - Epiphany Aug 24, 11:15
- No. Something else would come along and be just as good and free for a while - oblique Aug 24, 11:10
- I wouldn't pay anything for Facebook. -- nm - mara Aug 24, 11:10
- Maybe. I'd pay $1/mo for ST, though. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 24, 11:09 1
  - ditto. but don't tell Bery. - Mel Profit Aug 24, 11:14
- f*ck that, I'm going back to email. -- nm - znufrii Aug 24, 11:09
Yes, we're self-sufficient, but it would be too much work (and far too annoying) to become prosperous. :) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 10:56 9
- You really should charge per post......loosi alone would pay for your kids schooling. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 10:58 5
  - no no no.. she would pay for the boat he wants -- nm - Remlik Aug 24, 11:16 3
    - We already covered this on B3-4-5. The money in the family goes to give the kid everything it wants; the boat can wait till the kid is 18. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 11:17 2
      - "Kieran, what do you want?" ... "BOAT!" -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 11:18 1
        
        I'll speak with his mother. Just stand there and cut the check pops. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 24, 11:20
  - For one of my other projects (wtsnap.com) I'm working on a library for micropayments ... I could apply the logic to ST. But I won't. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 24, 11:12
- So what you're saying is ST's bills are paid up, but we don't generate much extra cha-ching? -- nm - Qale Aug 24, 10:58 1
  - Buy more David Hasselhoff CDs, yo. -- nm - Roger More Aug 24, 11:02
- but, the article's theory is that bigger ultimately fails. smaller, and exclusionary, actually work better. - Andie Aug 24, 10:58

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