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2011 Jan 5, 2:54pm
Let's say making $10/year fee for each member? that won't be hard on anybody I think.
- have some thing like Digg / Slashdot, where users submit stories and they get voted up / down by the members. The top stories will show up on front page.
(this will require significant amount of coding, unless there is an free/open-source library/plugin for wordpress)
- select a few moderators and let them promote stories to the front page. This way the work-load is shared among us
I think there are both great ideas.
Also, I am not too skeptical about 100K. It is the 5th day of the year and we are at about 14K.
I have been thinking about a price point for the price service, too. I think lower might be much better. Or single reports on homes at 10 each. When you are about to rent or buy, 10 dollars is pretty trivial.
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as of today (Jan 5) $13,357 from 405 backers so far. That is about $33 / person.
I am a little skeptical that Patrick can reach his mark of $100k. But a modest goal of 20-25k is certainly reachable. While this won't let Patrick work on the site full time, it will certainly will cover server/bandwidth costs plus some extra for his time.
Sounds like, selecting news stories is taking up lot of Patrick's time. What would be a better alternative?
- have some thing like Digg / Slashdot, where users submit stories and they get voted up / down by the members. The top stories will show up on front page.
(this will require significant amount of coding, unless there is an free/open-source library/plugin for wordpress)
- select a few moderators and let them promote stories to the front page. This way the work-load is shared among us
- any other ideas?
thanks