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Esprit de Vore

@darius @jume We've got ~800 MAU right now and I think we're probably gonna be a fair bit over 200/mo, just cuz of legal/corp stuff. Hosting alone, probably ~100/mo, but that's not counting, low six figures worth of my time in the last year, if I were to charge what I charge my clients.

6 Jan 2023 at 23:07 | Wall-to-wall | Open on woof.group
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Darius Kazemi

@aphyr @jume right, obviously this is not paying for sysadmin time like you would pay at a company.

100/mo for hosting seems about right to me, and yeah legal stuff is a whole other ball of wax. On Friend Camp we have ~50% of our active users averaging $3/mo, though some people give $1/mo and some people give like $10/mo. The other half of our active users don't donate, but it works out

6 Jan 2023 at 23:11 | Open on friend.camp
Esprit de Vore

@darius @jume That's good to know! One of the things I'm trying to do this month (once I get our LLC set up) is figure out how we're actually going to take donations. Libera.pay and the other crowdfunding mechanisms seem to use Stripe for processing, but Stripe's ToS say you need special approval to use it for crowdfunding and their sales team won't get back to me. :-/

6 Jan 2023 at 23:14 | Open on woof.group
Darius Kazemi

@aphyr @jume yeah I just use patreon because I took a poll and most people already had a patreon account they could pay through.

I wonder if this is crowdfunding though? like... it's people paying for a service, seems pretty straightforward

6 Jan 2023 at 23:15 | Open on friend.camp
Esprit de Vore

@darius Not really sure! I think they may actually be talking about if I wanted to *operate* a crowdfunding site, rather than *use* one. Same goes for Patreon--we gotta get Stripe or Paypal set up first. Can't wait to get banned when they find out we're gaaaaay.

6 Jan 2023 at 23:16 | Open on woof.group
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