TIL Patreon's estimated revenue in 2021 is $160m, and Substack's is $11.9m.

Anecdotal but I don't know anyone using Patreon yet know tons on Substack. Would have assumed less of a delta.

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These patronage businesses take too big of a cut. I was with BuyMeACoffee when I started blogging and it was awesome that a lot of people wanted to support but between PayPal and BMaC I was getting like $3.5 of every $5.

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Woop Pay is a cool option for a BuyMeACoffee / Kofi type tipping. I’m planning to put a button on my posts. I also use see Mirror/Paragraph collects as a form of patronage, and I have a patronage NFT which people can mint to support and unlock Q&A and other future perks. Once Zora is on L2 I’ll probably expand this

Yeah, take rates do seem to be high for these platforms.

Crypto should help with this imo. Crypto recurring subscription on some L2 = ultra cheap gas, no intermediaries, and small take rate depending on platform implementation