Community

This framework implies a return to patronage – we are not paying for utility, we are funding the story, the taste, the culture, and its support and proliferation.

Ironically enough, patronage is an even older media business model than advertising or subscriptions. During the Renaissance, patronage was symbiotic – it afforded patrons cultural capital... See more

I have worked hard to stay close to my childhood friends, not just in the ‘knowing the events of each other’s lives’ sense (though this is a worthwhile aim!), but also in the sense that: I want to let them continue to know me and who I was becoming as I transformed , even as I shed versions of myself they had come to know so well. Because I love... See more

The longstanding struggles of digital media businesses drive home the fact that internet-native media requires a fundamentally different business approach. Monetizing content assumes that the value is held in the content itself. Under the physics of infinity – frictionless content creation and distribution – the marginal value of every additional... See more

But I wish I had realized sooner that I could show up as I was, and everyone who loved me would still love me even as I was confused, freshly transformed and still getting my footing. I wish I realized that no one is as absorbed in our journeys of inner-transformation as we are, and that sometimes laughing with old friends about nothing in... See more

One of the most powerful, unique features of STP is Subscriber Rewards, which allow creators to share a percentage of their revenue with subscribers. Our philosophy has always been that your earliest subscribers should get rewarded more than later subscribers, incentivizing support for Hypersub creators from the earliest days.

In STPv2, we’ve... See more

Until last year, launching an onchain subscription was difficult, as NFTs and ERC20s had no concept of time embedded within them. Instead, they offered one-time, discrete value transfer between buyers and sellers.

Token allowances and streaming escrow contracts are one solution to this problem, but they are complex and difficult to use.

We made STP... See more

like substack, hypersub gives followers more control over their experience: users choose exactly which creators they want to support and therefore what content they want to consume.

unlike substack, the user-centric feed experience that hypersub offers can be implemented well beyond one app.

so, what's the onchain equivalent to substack?

hypersub.

hypersub is the economic infrastructure for future communities, the financial rail that empowers creators to build their communities through media and channels that best align with any evolving brand.

like substack, it provides a direct creator-audience relationship that aligns incentives... See more

The integration wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. It mostly just required me to surrender, to accept being (at least temporarily) misunderstood as the price for being seen. And realizing that, the more I opened myself up to where I was, the more at home I felt, and the better job I did sharing the treasures I had found on my journey.

It is a... See more