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We are about to see a whole sea of Patreon competitors.

I really hope so! I had been using Patreon as a "poor man's microtransactions" with $1 subscriptions (contingent on actually producing content, if possible) on something like 40 creators. I moved over to SubscribeStar, but they don't have the default $1 option.

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The default cost of a transaction is typically ~$.30 cents. Thats just payment processing. Not alot of margin there.

The default cost of a transaction is typically ~$.30 cents. Thats just payment processing. Not alot of margin there.

A web app could aggregate charges to me, and aggregate payments out to content creators. Obviously. That's what Patreon was doing. Others could do it too. (If the allegations of collusion with payment processing are true, this would explain why this isn't done more.)

He has $40 subscriptions and presumably none of the creators only have his $1 subscription. At no point are they actually eating the fixed cost on a $1 transaction.

Actually, while Patreon did such aggregation, SubscribeStar seems to do each transaction individually. I wonder if they aren't over a barrel because insiders in the payment processing industry are locking them out.

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