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Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by pcthrowaway »

ric2b wrote: post #402
kokanee wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An idea I mull over occasionally: what if you could spend your karma points to boost any given post? This would ultimately be another form of paid advertising, except that the currency used would be earned by contributing to the community. Then, allow people to sell their karma points for fiat currency. Companies would buy karma points directly from users in order to promote their self-promotional posts, but those po…

This has been tried in the cryptocurrency space, people start faking accounts to upvote their content and make money. So basically what already happens with reddit/twitter/etc but amplified because you give them a direct financial incentive to upvote low effort crap.

That doesn't really work when they have to pay for each account they use to upvote though.

Even if they boost their own post a bit for it to get the attention of others, they're still paying $2 per upvote for that. And if their post is no good, people might even just cancel those out with downvotes.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by jjcm »

coding123 wrote: post #285

What are you serving it using? It's surviving what I imagine to be a huge hug of death.

Served off a small $10/mo vultr VPS. Today it's transferred about 200GB of content across 6m requests. I'm quite happy with how it's handling it!

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by laserDinosaur »

twic wrote: post #112
jjcm wrote: post #89

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Yes ish, as currently I'm doing payouts via Stripe Connect (and likewise only paying out in countries that Stripe Connect supports, as it takes care of that aspect). Everything is theoretical until battle-tested however.

Personally, if i signed up, i would not be interested in getting payouts. I'd have to declare them on my tax return, and it's just not worth it for such small amounts. So a checkbox to donate any payouts to a charity (the EFF, perhaps?) would be great.

Earning money from this site doesn't particularly interest me. Raising money for charities, and using that as a fun bragging metric to friends totally does. If you want the community to have a great vibe to it, seeing top level users who have donated thousands to charities is a great way to start that. It's a bit hard to troll the community when your raising money for sick kids at the same time.

Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

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Post by jjcm »

blacklight wrote: post #243

Is it open-source? Is it based on open protocols? Does it support federation? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then your product is irrelevant. It's nothing personal. It's just that I'm sick and tired of centralized solutions running on somebody else's computers. At least this product makes its business model clear (a $2/month subscription fee for interacting). But hey, I'm a guy who used to run phpBB f…

The github link is in the post.
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