FamilyLeaf (YC W12), The Social Network For You And Your Kin, Adds 4 Advisors

Thanks for giving us a shot! We definitely are not going to sell out our users and have other plans to monetize and move the company forward. We plan on providing value-added services for families such as helping families plan vacations, buy gifts for each other, order cards/pictures, etc. We've already been doing a few experiments with some of our families and things are going well!

In addition to that, we'll never charge any of our current users for what we are already offering them though in the future we may have additional features or plans that could be subscription based.

I don't know about your family, but there's no way I would expect my parents, my sisters, their spouses and their kids to pay $10/ea for a service like this. Someone just wouldn't show up, which kind of defeats the purpose.

If it was valuable enough to us, I could imagine paying a reasonable monthly rate (say, $25/mo or less) to host our entire family... but disposable income varies wildly in our (and I'm sure most) family.