I think my own ideas of what would be cool are a bit too far outside what y’all are talking about to really mesh with y’all’s plans at all. But it looks interesting. I’ll watch with baited breath.
I can throw in the following information though:
Slack is free as long as you back your old data up before it gets forgotten. It’s an incredibly useful tool. It has a tendency to become a chat platform, though.
Tumblr is a free blogging platform that makes having multiple contributors easy and folks can use RTF (eww), HTML, or Markdown (like Discourse uses but minus the BBCode extensions).
Oh, and I forgot to mention, you can still get a real domain name for a tumblr blog, you wouldn’t have to worry about naming someone to deal with DMCA claims, etc. and you can still play with the CSS and underlying HTML/JS.
I can do it if nobody else wants to. I ran the Seinfeld football pool for a few years, and that was worth $64k, with no complaints or missed payments.
My immediate goal (not for the job, which ain’t mine yet even if I do end up doing it, but just for the overall project) would be to keep the expenses as low-buck as possible. It makes sense to spread the capital outlay among us initial founding shareholders, as it were, but I reiterate that I never wanna exclude anyone from participation if they’re unwilling or unable to pony up what might be considered a fair share of scratch. All this talk of advertising and revenue streams is, I think, looking far down the road to a potential future when we might earn more eyeballs than are found in the skulls of our collective extended family members.
Still, since such a future is at least a faint possibility, we should be prepared for it. But for now, I move that we slap something cheap-n-cheerful together relatively quickly, assuming we can get some content together. I can put together a Patreon account and start putting the funds therein, if the rest of you guys nail down exactly what we should spend it on.
Throwing out an idea here. My understanding is that a lot of adverts use a fair amount of client computer resources. What if we used these resources to run a fast turn around grid computing set up. Kind of like a 10 second seti @home and then hired it out to companies universities etc.
May I ask what the difference is? I figure the latter sorts through the stuff to get posted and provisionally approves or rejects it, (like a newspaper editor), but with that job description gone, I don’t know what the duties of the former would be.
How about a once-a-month review of something advertised by BB. You could even set it up on an Amazon wishlist so anyone who wanted a specific thing reviewed could pay for it.
You could even set it up on an Amazon wishlist so anyone who wanted a specific thing reviewed could pay for it.