Commercialization

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Roomy will have two different types of customers:

1. community managers (business users)
2. private individuals (power users)

B2B: Public communities for business-purposes

(1) is essentially the same pricing structure as Discourse, starting at $20/month ($10 during beta) and scaling up to $500/month. We'd also figure out a way to sell licenses for on-premise use, e.g. starting at $200/year.

This is our primary play for revenue, since selling to businesses is much easier than direct-to-consumer.

B2C: Premium plan for private individuals

(2) is essentially Discord Nitro. Our version of that is the Weird product, which is being ported over to Roomy as something like ‘Roomy Personas’.

In other words it’d be $50/year ($25/yr pre-alpha) for..

• Personal website
• Custom (sub-)domain [maybe defunct]
• Non-Bluesky ATproto hosting (like https://www.eurosky.social/ or https://northskysocial.com/ or https://www.blackskyweb.xyz/ )
• Personalized OAuth provider, i.e. a ‘Google signin’ for the indieweb.
• Blog
• CDN, more storage..
• More ‘space-badge’ rotations (1/week for 🪙 instead of 1/month for 🆓 )
• Possibly a Data Credits system for cloud-based audio/video calls (p2p always free).