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RE: Steem Entrepreneurs Listen Up! - We need a Filehosting Service!
Does it make sense to provide a service like satoshibox for those(everyone) who have been used to downloading everything for free? Is Satoshibox profitable? These are my concerns.
I see many people selling e-books there. There are also adult photos there from https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlsGoneBitcoin/
It should be profitable since satoshibox is online for more than 2 years now I think. A lot of people are using it, and they take a 6% fee from the sell price. I have sold a lot of stuff through them.
Not necessarily enough. People can go years running a site that loses them money for the hope of eventually cashing in. It these days if you want to do anything creative like this you need a VPS. Now with steemd needing at least two gigs of RAM you are looking at a minimal cost of $20 / month. Now, seeing how the Steem ecosystem is tiny, it is unlikely that someone is going to use the service enough to justify the cost.
C'mon, people earn here 500$/post. If the site is designed well, they just need to introduce it here and they will get a ton of upvotes, probably enough to fund it for 1 year, even if they make 0 profit.
They can give regular updates, and they will get upvotes which should fund them until they kickstart.
But I think people will instantly start selling their photos, music, books for Steem. It could be a big business, and a big addition to this economy.