App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform

Re:App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform by amackera on Friday July 13, 2012 @06:05PM (#4242227)

I think this is a marvellous idea, and I'm now an official backer. One thing that I'm worried about is that a "pay wall" sort of model might prevent casual users from signing up. Maybe a paid API / developer model might work better.

For instance, the vast majority of GitHub users don't pay a dime, since they only use open source projects (which are free to host). There are many people/companies that use the paid service (mine included), but we pay for the "added feature" of being able to keep the repo private.

Good luck with the cause! There's potential here.

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Re:App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform by dalton on Friday July 13, 2012 @08:49PM (#4242662)

agree. there will be no pay wall. Members can post their content publicly or privately and non-members can view public content

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Re:App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform by scottmagdalein on Friday July 13, 2012 @11:24PM (#4243009)

I can't put my finger on it, but something feels unbalanced. So, are paid users simply paying for the ability to post private updates? Or are they paying for access to other users' private updates?

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Re:App.net is crowdfunding their realtime feed platform by obvio171 on Sunday July 15, 2012 @08:42PM (#4248765)

It seems like they're paying to post updates. It will be read-only of public posts for non-members.

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