I've been building this with a friend in our free time over the past few years. We are in an open beta right now. We are definitely a bit guilty of delaying promoting it in favour of trying to polish things however the recent Reddit news really pushed us to start getting the word out. This project has really been a labour of love for me.

In regards to how we plan to monetize, just gonna repost this message I sent in another comment thread:

> One of the key design decisions was to bake in different methods for monetization within each community so that the community admins/mods can get paid. We take a minority cut of each transaction to help fund the platform.

> Each community has the ability to offer tiered monthly membership plans and can optionally gate individual pieces of content, or the entire community behind the memberships (the content gating part is a work in progress). We are also adding the ability for users to pay to bump posts and buy comment awards which the revenue is shared with the community owner. Basically we are looking at adding ways for the communities to make money in ways that don't come at the detriment to the community itself.

> We are also exploring offering a platform wide subscription fee that would give users some additional benefits as well however we haven't fully fleshed this out yet.