Post

Nailed my ass

Okay AI Paul Frazee! What monetization pipelines exist for atproto development (unironically curious) if someone were to start developing in that space? I like free stuff as much as the next guy but it doesn’t pay bills.

Payments from audiences to creators, who will increasingly benefit from their content showing up across the atmosphere, and from being able to build sites & apps for their communities that tie into the network, will likely be the primary economic inflow

Providing infrastructure to those creators, whether it's hosting, powertools, payment providers, etc, is how pure builders will likely benefit from that inflow

I would also expect creators to continue to do sponsorships (as in podcasts and longform videos) and while AI seems to be crushing SEO-related ad revenue, social feeds seem to continue to drive attention. We're thinking more about infra at bluesky right now, but the observation holds

This is food for thought I suppose. I can already think of a way to give bsky a skin in way of theme that might be somewhat interesting to others.

That idea without being so super obvious might be in the same vein that reddit handles subreddits (in theory).