As a food blogging platform trying to monetize and build a livelihood using author -> audience models, this is one of the first experiments that we are running. There are quite a few challenges and probably we fail a lot but this experiment seems like it could work.

Part of it was also inspired by Blendle’s experiment[1]

[1] https://medium.com/on-blendle/blendle-a-radical-experiment-w...