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As someone who is working on a similar project (a chess mmo) and looking to validate a business model in order to get funding, how are they covering the costs?
by altvali 5y ago
As someone who is working on a similar project (a chess mmo) and looking to validate a business model in order to get funding, how are they covering the costs?
The answer usually is "donations", but there are only 402 patrons on https://lichess.org/patron https://lichess.org/patron and Thibault said on twitter that the average donation is $8. That's $3216/mo, less than a tenth of monthly costs. Is the rest coming from the swag store? From coaches? How much do the donations surpass the costs? Lots of missing pieces from the revenue puzzle.
- Jommi 5y agoMaybe you should look at a model where your chess mmo runs on top of another platform? That way a lot of your costs would go down and you could focus on the core parts that you want to build. E.g. you dont really want to spend time paying for or optimizing for hundreds of simultaneous users from multiple countries.
- llimllib 5y agoThat’s definitely not every patron
- ornicar 5y agoThese are just the most recent. ATM there are 10,722 active patron accounts.