@dfox whats the revenue model of devrant? if you dont mind me asking

The only money made is earned trough merch

@yarwest is that enough to sustain the cost of servers and developement cost

@rookiemaverick They are funding basically everything from their own pocket

@yarwest thats why I am curious to know the revenue model

@rookiemaverick that is why I am saying that they earn some money from the merch, but I am pretty sure that that is not enough for all the costs, so they pay the rest themselves

making money at such an early stage is not what smart start- ups do.
once they get a significant user base, who uses their service often, then only should you think of monetization.

@tysa and thats the question, how will @dfox monetize this app? I hope not only by user donations. and I hope they should have a revenue model. I can understand, while working on the initial launch they would have not thought abt that it will be a hit

@rookiemaverick I would say native ads, kinda like how Instagram and tumblr does
that's the only way to get significant earnings from an app like this

I'm pretty sure the only revenue made is through merch, and most of that probably goes to keeping the servers up and running.

shit in, shit out

maybe adding a PayPal ad system for hiring may help

Native ads are the cleanest approach and of course donations. I wouldn't want to see the crap at the bottom of the app.

Right now we're completely self-funded and don't actually have a revenue model in place. The store was put up because of popular demand and although it brings in a little money, it's not meant to be a source of real revenue and it doesn't cover expenses.

We have numerous ways to make money when the time comes. Ex. Some kind of enterprise software ads tie in, a tasteful recruitment feature, etc.

We also have a brand new, top secret feature were working on which we think will be the most fun new feature since devRant launched and will include some good potential for monetization, we think.

@dfox I like the way you put it. "Tasteful recruitment feature", clients be like : I want 2 sweet front end devs with an extra spoon of styles. 😂

@dfox looking forward to secret feature ;)

@EpIcInCoGnItO any HR reading this server will burn 🔥

@mxdpeep HRs be like : I want devs who can go happy on my pockets. 😂😂

Maybe add non-intrusive ads as rants.

@dfox Pro members pay to upvote? 😂

@dfox Just a suggestion. You can offer targeted rant as a form of ads. Of course it needs to be a high quality rant. They are targeted at based on tags, location, user details and smart classification and suggestion engine. Think google ads but as clever, cool rants. I can visualize funny Rants from Rackspace, Amazon, Netflix, Game devs even Hollywood movie promos, local pizza deliveries etc.

@azzuwan that's a cool idea, thank you!

And thank you to everyone who has made suggestions here, we appreciate the feedback and it definitely helps guide some decisions we make.

@dfox just curious, what's the active user base?