Don't know what box this comment should end up in? Not all of us dream of having 1000's of followers nor do we ever expect to make any money from building a very small local community conversation, say in our neighborhood, HOA, civic club, church or literarily millions of other small groups whose lifeblood centers around sharing ideas an…
Don't know what box this comment should end up in? Not all of us dream of having 1000's of followers nor do we ever expect to make any money from building a very small local community conversation, say in our neighborhood, HOA, civic club, church or literarily millions of other small groups whose lifeblood centers around sharing ideas and communicating with each other. Your platform seems ideal for that purpose. BUT. your financial model would collapse overnight if a lot of us started to use your platform for that purpose, because there is no current method for you to monetize this use. "Free" is always a slow or sometimes fast trip to bankruptcy. I think many of us know that the days of Google and Facebook as "FREE" platforms will ultimately end as more users tire of being the commodity that is being sold to advertisers. I would suggest that Substack could make a great contribution to building and maintaining the fabric of our local communities and ultimately the larger world that we live in, not to mention a sustaining source of revenue for Substack, if you could offer a way to use your platform as an affordable way to communicate with others at the most local levels of our society. I believe that this would have a "Value" that many of us would be willing to pay for. Just my thoughts.
Don't know what box this comment should end up in? Not all of us dream of having 1000's of followers nor do we ever expect to make any money from building a very small local community conversation, say in our neighborhood, HOA, civic club, church or literarily millions of other small groups whose lifeblood centers around sharing ideas and communicating with each other. Your platform seems ideal for that purpose. BUT. your financial model would collapse overnight if a lot of us started to use your platform for that purpose, because there is no current method for you to monetize this use. "Free" is always a slow or sometimes fast trip to bankruptcy. I think many of us know that the days of Google and Facebook as "FREE" platforms will ultimately end as more users tire of being the commodity that is being sold to advertisers. I would suggest that Substack could make a great contribution to building and maintaining the fabric of our local communities and ultimately the larger world that we live in, not to mention a sustaining source of revenue for Substack, if you could offer a way to use your platform as an affordable way to communicate with others at the most local levels of our society. I believe that this would have a "Value" that many of us would be willing to pay for. Just my thoughts.