alt Hacker NewsI've always understood platforms like Substack or Patreon to really be a solution to the payment processing problem first and foremost.
I've always understood platforms like Substack or Patreon to really be a solution to the payment processing problem first and foremost.
That’s exactly right. Finding ways to get paid for your work, and all the very complicated way taxes interact with it all, unless you’re going all-in on ads, is a messy problem that people will happily centralize for.
And for the less technical people, we have 30+ years of solving this problem with different websites that each went in and out of vogue, from groceries and MySpace, through Facebook and now Medium and Substack.