daviddyess
commented
5 years ago Excellent K!
It may be OK to try multiple strategies, as long as we don't go overboard. I think a gofundme may be most profitable at "official" launch time, when people see this is actually happening. We could also do a yearly fund raiser and try to get some vendors on board for give aways and prizes. If it isn't too often, we can probably pull in some really good stuff. There are also waffles and things like that, again if we can get some vendors involved.
I think if we can avoid subscriptions, then people will see us more as non-profit and and an actual community organization.
Just my 2¢ of course
I know, this is something that still lays somewhere in distant future - but I had a really nice chat with some people from the DIY Discord Server, so I figured I'd write it down so we won't forget about anything.
So we have the following options:
Option 1: Try to find people who will host for free. Unlikely to be sustainable over the long run though
Option 2: Contact some companies and partner up with them, like ATF and ELR do for example. If you go on a flavoring page, you already have links at disposal that take you to this site where you can buy this particular flavor. Also stuff like "This website is sponsored by [company] [link]" would be an idea
Option 3: Go with ads. This splits up into multiple scenarios:
Option 4: Setup a patreon, gofundme, Kickstarter or whatever we want.
Some more information about ads: As far as I read with approx. 40.000 page views per day, you can make between 40-400$ per day, if you have 3 ads on your website. That should be way more than enough to cover the cost of servers - and the more users we have, the more page views, the more money, the better the server we can provide to users.