RE: Steem Forums App // "TokenBB" // Open registrations
believe beneficiary fees are more often then not app killers. Many apps that rely solely on beneficiary fees to stay afloat neither capture the user base, nor are they sustainable. Mostly due to Steemit/Busy having 0% fees.
This makes sense to me when it comes to alternative frontends or apps through which people may post unique content. I don't get why it would deter someone from leaving a helpful comment on a forum, however, given that the busy/steemit alternative would not get seen by anybody.
If I spent 5-10 hours making a piece of content, having a 10-20% cut taken matters to me. If I am to make a helpful comment that takes me a minute to write, and there is no alternative place to write it where it will get seen by the same people browsing the website, then what do I have to lose?
In the first case, there is an alternative cost to using the App/Frontend. In the second case such as @tokenbb, there's only the potential to make a gain. So why not?
The main challenge for this business model is rather to give others reason to want to curate comments written on the forum instead of allocating their voting power towards something more profitable. If comments are not curated, then there are no benefactor rewards. So again, I don't think the problem has anything to do with the author taking a cut.
Yeah you may be right with that assessment. The thing is the perception while using the app that matters. The forums will use a nested comment section from the perspective of Steemit users but from the thread creator perspective in-app, creating a thread would appear as creating a Steemit post.
I can see your point and you might even be right, but i still think that more imaginative ways of monetization can be found.
I agree with you generally. Giving people the ability to use Steem to curate and be curated is in my eyes primarily a great way to give people a reason to spend time on your website app or to begin with. Then businesses can use more conventional methods to monetize the attention/time-on site that users are willing to spend there (ads, premium features, affiliates, etc).