What’s the business model behind this?
I’m genuinely curious.
I’m genuinely curious.
If you need to directly monetize - perhaps an itch.io/Appstore type e-store would be interesting where creators could monetize their cozy style game creations through a straightforward publishing them.
Hopefully if you do want/need to try some sort of Roblox/Fortnite style, monetized open-world version, you can separate it into its own domain (i.e. rooms-world.xyz) and keep rooms.xyz strictly for Scratch like learning experiences. The potential of rooms.xyz as it stands now is great as an edtech platform.
Perhaps some private donor (Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, etc.) could help to buy out the original rooms.xyz from your seed investors and put it into some sort of private foundation (i.e. Scratch Foundation [1], Khan Academy Foundation). You could then be explore growth/monetization IPO-able opportunities through a separate entity while keeping what you guys have already built in tact for the long term.
If NFTs and crypto can make experiments like this sustainable, then I'm all for it.
If your ENS domain's use case is so obscure that most don't get it, then maybe you need to modify the use case.
The problem with monetizing anything with crypto in this environment means that people will only buy it for speculative purposes. Which means that instead of building anything sustainable, you just end up building trash and spending on marketing to keep the speculative hype train going.
It’s like running a publicly traded company, but with extremely fickle shareholders.
Gambling has been an extraordinarily popular human pastime since we came down from the trees.
Literally nothing about the human response to crypto is interesting or novel.
For example you might speculate on how likely it is that people will strike oil on a given patch of land by investing in that land and some drilling. If you're right and oil is discovered there is more wealth in the world as a result of this speculation.
Gambling is not like that. Gambling doesn't have any connection to productive activity, it's just people transferring money around with wealth going from some people to some other people. That's what crypto is.
Edit: There is a line about it in https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/a16z-backed-rooms-xyz-lets...:
> Eventually, Rooms could monetize by selling objects for purchase, subscriptions or licensing its software for education, but that’s all very much to be determined at this point.