patrick.net

After seeing the rise and apparent viability of Substack, I think maybe patrick.net could compete in that space.

So patrick.net users could make some of their posts require payment in one way or another, either by subscription, or for a small per-article fee. It would just be an option if people want to try to make money.

A big benefit is that it would give the for-profit users a motive to spread the word about their "blog" here. And you all could perhaps make some money.

Some problems:

- payments can easily get cut off by the forces of censorship, though Substack apparently deals with that OK
- Substack has a lot of famous people on it. How did they do that? Substack looks more professional, so maybe that's one reason.
- Substack tends to charge way too much. I'm not about to pay $5/month for the 20 Substacks I read. So maybe there should be a $5/month subscription to patrick.net in general, and users could then use up that $5 a quarter at a time or so by "buying" individual posts which look worth reading.

Feedback appreciated. What would make it work?