lucas on Nostr: Spent over $30k out-of-pocket with two other devs helping me build it, as well as was ...
Spent over $30k out-of-pocket with two other devs helping me build it, as well as was leasing the rawr.com domain for US$ 500/month. It just got way too costly for my personal budget without being able to get any VC funding (which I was trying to avoid tbh). Ultimately, once Twitter announced Super Followers, I felt that rawr would probably be DOA upon launch.
The platform was also centralised so it would have been more akin to a loosely moderated platform than anything. But the mission was to make rawr as privacy-oriented as possible while also allowing adult content and a subscription model similar to OF, but through a split payment system so we never held funds from content creators.
I've since made peace with it and considering how the social media landscape has evolved and the controversies around moderation have grown, I might have dodged a bullet in the long-run, unless I had become a sellout to our own mission and enforced strick policing of conent, which is not at all within my ethos. Killing it seemed the only appropriate step forward, which in hindsight seems it was a good move now that #Nostr exists.
The platform was also centralised so it would have been more akin to a loosely moderated platform than anything. But the mission was to make rawr as privacy-oriented as possible while also allowing adult content and a subscription model similar to OF, but through a split payment system so we never held funds from content creators.
I've since made peace with it and considering how the social media landscape has evolved and the controversies around moderation have grown, I might have dodged a bullet in the long-run, unless I had become a sellout to our own mission and enforced strick policing of conent, which is not at all within my ethos. Killing it seemed the only appropriate step forward, which in hindsight seems it was a good move now that #Nostr exists.