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Jbr
@jbr.bsky.social

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.

P(aul) Frazee
@pfrazee.com

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

P(aul) Frazee
@pfrazee.com

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

P(aul) Frazee
@pfrazee.com

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