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Couldn't this work on RetroShare's "forums", too? http://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/retroshare-forums/ http://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/01

by devx 13y ago

Couldn't this work on RetroShare's "forums", too? http://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/retroshare-forums/ http://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/retroshare-fo...

FBT 13y ago
Yep. I fully expect forums like that to become a dominant mode of communication in the near and medium-term future. All it really needs is for someone to make for it a slick and easy to use interface. If I was in a position at the moment to found a startup, this would absolutely be the field I would found it in.
- atmosx 13y ago
  I don't see any feasible financial model, how will you induce cash flows since you'll need nodes to run the service and these nodes will also be clients? - If I understand correctly that is.
  - FBT 13y ago
    That is a good question. I will first repeat the advice often given to startup founders: Get it working first, find a was to monetize it second. Beyond that, I have had a few thoughts. Yes, I actually agree that this would be a harder endeavour to monetize than most startups, but if it really came to it, you could make a profit. I did not really go deep into these considerations, as (like I said) I don't actually have the resources at the moment to make it a reality, but my main idea was to integrate it somehow with the bitchain. AFter that, there are several ways you can profit. Say, have each post cost a fraction of a bitcoin to propagate it along. It would encourage others to catch the posts and pass them around in the same way bitcoin miners getting bitcoins for mining encourages bitcoin mining. And then I could charge a commision on that. That is one example, of course I would have to way up all the pros and cons of each approach, and of course there is the drawback of any monetization system necessarily introducing some point of centralization, even in a otherwise entirely decentralised system.

by devx 13y ago

Couldn't this work on RetroShare's "forums", too? http://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/retroshare-forums/ http://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/retroshare-fo...

FBT 13y ago

Yep. I fully expect forums like that to become a dominant mode of communication in the near and medium-term future. All it really needs is for someone to make for it a slick and easy to use interface. If I was in a position at the moment to found a startup, this would absolutely be the field I would found it in.

atmosx 13y ago
I don't see any feasible financial model, how will you induce cash flows since you'll need nodes to run the service and these nodes will also be clients? - If I understand correctly that is.
- FBT 13y ago
  That is a good question. I will first repeat the advice often given to startup founders: Get it working first, find a was to monetize it second. Beyond that, I have had a few thoughts. Yes, I actually agree that this would be a harder endeavour to monetize than most startups, but if it really came to it, you could make a profit. I did not really go deep into these considerations, as (like I said) I don't actually have the resources at the moment to make it a reality, but my main idea was to integrate it somehow with the bitchain. AFter that, there are several ways you can profit. Say, have each post cost a fraction of a bitcoin to propagate it along. It would encourage others to catch the posts and pass them around in the same way bitcoin miners getting bitcoins for mining encourages bitcoin mining. And then I could charge a commision on that. That is one example, of course I would have to way up all the pros and cons of each approach, and of course there is the drawback of any monetization system necessarily introducing some point of centralization, even in a otherwise entirely decentralised system.