Very thoughtful responses, thank you!
I’d check in on Rally discord through the developer channels for an answer on this:
Our biggest cost is maintaining the servers - the higher the volume of fans trying to access the links, the more server data. We will analyze average creator following more closely and make estimates. We would hate to charge a smaller community technically more because we are factoring high volumes from the top Rally creators so we may consider tiers based on the creators’ following. Thoughts on this structure?
If higher fan volume translates to higher costs, then the structure to charge creators could be based on usage tiers: 10 fans accessing the links, 25, 50, 100 etc…so the subscription is flexible to move up a cost tier if engagement increases. I’m not sure how industries where server costs are their largest expense tend to monetize, but usage based seems plausible. I feel like tiered pricing would be pretty straightforward and you could tune it in time as you gather more data on usage.
What I think could be really rad is to have the creator settle automatically monthly through a smart contract that transfers CC from their own holdings to you based on the subscription usage. Smart contract (might require some manual work as well or for a time) could equally burn the CC for $RLY and send to an on-chain wallet to hold and participate in governance or convert further. It’d be nice if you had the option. Again, not my specialty here.
Panvala is the community!
From me:
“They brought forth a proposal that seems promising if creators in the network are at all keen on a service to gate exclusive Web2 based-content behind creator token holding thresholds. Could likely be a foundation for other services, or perhaps even a template for further businesses built on top of Rally that empower creator/fan communities…it’s up to the $RLY community to judge!
Thanks for the endorsement of Mintgate! Appreciate the quick response here.”
Might also want to reach out to a handful of creators on their discord channels and see what kind of interest is there for the service if you haven’t already! Last thing I’ll add seeing your response to Sixy is that the core Rally team is working on some NFT features for creators, but the only details on it that I’ve seen are from Kevin Chou’s Coinlist presentation that you could pull up on youtube.