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We are building a social network with chronological feed.

I am thinking how to make it sustainable without raising VC funding but not doing aggressive ad targeting. Obviously people are not going to pay for a social network. So maybe just very generic sponsered links?

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Maybe the model should be more like public roads - for-profit companies are involved in building parts of them but they don't control the whole system.

Could do what redsit does and offer programmatic advertising targeted based on subreddits

Yeah.. simple keyword matching might work.

But one for the rare case of ours taking off

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