On: Patreon CEO says the company’s generous business model is not sustainable

[kalleboo]

> You are trying to do too much

What I'm trying to figure out is, what ARE they doing? From the patron end of things at least, I barely see any new features at all.

If they were adding like streaming support, their own patron chat (instead of just linking to Discord), video hosting (instead of everyone using unlisted YouTube videos), etc, then I'd agree they're trying to do too much, but I don't even know what they ARE doing?

[busterarm → kalleboo]

I'm really just referring to their aspirations -- the thing justifying their funding, hiring and size.

I feel like you could run that whole company with 20 people.

[dwoozle → busterarm]

You have clearly not worked in payments, just dealing with the fraud at that scale is more than 20 people.

[rak00n → dwoozle]

That sounds like a great start up idea. Cloudflare of payment fraud.

[jmalicki → rak00n]

It's called Sift https://sift.com/

[dzhiurgis → kalleboo]

Giving links early to unlisted videos to people who subscribe to that channel.

Surprised YouTube didn't kill them yet.