The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launched on HN

Re:The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launc... by GregMartinez on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:42PM (#25423754)

Thanks for sharing an in-depth breakdown of your first year. I've been curious on how indie shows can support themselves and it seems like it's really not feasible long term which is very disappointing. After paying for music, talent, hosting, and the payment platform's cut it seems like you'd need a huge listener base to get a small percentage of users that donate.

Patreon donations being higher than the others has to be due to user familiarity. It seems that most indie creators that ask for donations use Patreon so listeners might be more comfortable using that versus something like Liberapay or Interac.

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Re:The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launc... by joshschreuder on Monday December 14, 2020 @05:56PM (#25424506)

I tried Patreon simply off name recognition as you say. With that said, I did try to switch over to Liberapay after reading this, but they don't support automatic payments via Paypal (only Stripe, which the receiver has to support), so unfortunately a bit of a non starter for a set-and-forget supporter mechanism.

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Re:The first year of “The Program”, my fiction podcast launc... by I-M-S on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:59PM (#25423967)

I'm not disappointed because I still think the show will be feasible long term - just longer term than it's been so far! :D

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