First profit!

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We made our first $1! Actually $1.35.

So starting today, we will be adding the monetization table to the website -- I am working on it now.

Here is how dividends work:

Every day you login even once, you get 1 point.
Every day you leave a comment on a post, you get 5 points.
Every day you make a post that someone else (not you) reacts or comments on, you get 10 points.
Maximum points in a day is 16, minimum is 0 if you don't bother to login.

We will total up all the points for the day for all the users engagement, and divided the points by the amount we earned that day. The you get paid for each point you earned.

Obviously $1.35 isn't going to make us rich, but the site has been up less than a week.

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ericshefferman 2025-12-18 00:52:10

The notifications number is getting higher and higher but since it's all "adambriandada did something" I can't tell what it is without clicking.
Do users pay from their balance each time they look at the same post they've looked at before?
Do users pay from their balance each time they look at their own post that someone commented on?

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EricOttoLeukert 2025-12-18 05:20:53

I've wondered the same. (Following)

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adambriandada 2025-12-18 13:34:48

I am going to fix the "did something" more this week.

1. If you look at a post again, you pay again. That's why hiding images helps reduce your burden.
2. If you look at your own post to comment, you pay the server burn each time, and pay the multiplier over 1 to yourself.

I will expand the "Balance:" page eventually with pretty tables for folks to sort and download as a CSV spreadsheet to analyze.

Obviously all of this came out of my head recently, so I am still letting my hind brain stay ahead of my consciousness.

ericshefferman 2025-12-19 00:41:59

So what is incentivized is to keep it set to not show images all the time except to turn it on for a post where the image is of interest.
Especially if I'm going to go to my own posts and reply to comments since I've certainly already seen the image I posted.

adambriandada 2025-12-19 13:25:34

Yes, I am going to actually add a feature for users to "rent" the ability to keep images off by default -- but if folks keep images off from the start, it reduces author pay, and the small amount of seeing an image once is valuable if you like the author.

I was thinking of giving folks the following options:
- All images off
- Individual author images off (you like their content but the images aren't valuable)

Authors can also add EXTRA images to a post that are off by default. You can view them optionally by clicking the view button.

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ericshefferman 2025-12-19 15:17:31

I think it is confusing. Is it arbitrary numbers or is it actually relatable to serving costs?
Since I attempt to reply to comments on my own posts, if I don't keep images off then I keep paying to see the image I've made.
It might not matter now, but these micro-incentives to change behavior might matter as the site usage increases.
I'm sure I've read/watched stuff about how little changes like this can have big effects in how an app is used.

adambriandada 2025-12-19 15:22:11

I will write a post about it now -- in regards to costs and how it'll work!

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Post economics

Viewer would pay: $0.00005000
Author would earn: $0.00004000
Server would burn: $0.00001000