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99Circles — Subscription community platform for digital creators
99Circles is a subscription community platform that enables creators to setup tiered access to the content they create through multiple membership plans. All this while, creators had to share a commission of their earnings with content platforms.
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This looks very promising @dsouzaalan! Do you have a demo page of what a community page looks like?
@alexanderspoor Thank you so much. I am not sure how to attach images here. But the first image in the gallery on producthunt is how the community page looks like. Also, creating page is free. Would be great to get your feedback there.
Congrats on the launch. A couple questions about the creator/subscriber relationship - What sort of exclusive content do you expect creators to include as part of their subscription plans? Besides exclusive content, is there any more exposure the subscriber has to the creator?
@pav_sethi Thanks Pavan. 99Circles intends to provide a platform where followers can support and interact with their favourite creators through membership plans. As of now, content feed is the only format that we have introduced for communication. However, in the near future we plan to launch more direct communication and short burst channels as well .
Another lesson that ideas are dynamic agents unto themselves. I’ve always wanted to build this and thought this was the natural extension for most YouTube creators. Bravo. Can’t wait to use!
@lynnfredricks We have a discover pages section that enables users to find pages by categories, most active and more filters. Based on patterns and activity, we will also periodically recommend more pages to them if the opt-in for recommendation services in their settings.
@cjmilli Thanks for letting us know. I think we missed this out while changing options. We are fixing this right away.
@titusdecali
99Circles aims to be a one stop destination for content creators going forward. Some areas that we have focused on for now are -
1. Creators can upload content directly onto 99Circles instead of using public services like Youtube, Vimeo or other file hosting services. We are launching DRM as well in the coming week to enable better content protection for creators
2. 99Circles allows creators to upload and share any file type - for example creators could be designers wanting to share PSD templates or fruity loop files or even doc templates. 99Circles enables creators to share files with their subscribers without restrictions.
3. 99Circles doesn’t charge a commission from the earnings of creators and works on a SaaS model instead making it much more cost effective for creators in the long term. For beginners, there is a free plan for upto 25 subscribers.
4. 99Circles enables creators to support causes and have complete control on the billing frequencies for their membership plans as well.
5. 99Circles enables content creator pages to be discovered by users thereby bringing in more channels for subscriber growth
@dsouzaalan Thanks for your nice explanation. I like the way you are thinking about pricing. That sounds quite reasonable ^^
@titusdecali @dsouzaalan Sounds interesting. The lack of internal discovery on Patreon always bugged me. Bad from a user perspective (it's a lot of fun to explore projects on Kickstarter, for example) and also detrimental to their own revenue stream.
@titusdecali @deejtulleken Its only fair for creator pages to be discovered by more subscribers unless the creator themselves dont want their pages to be discovered.
@titusdecali @dsouzaalan Honestly, love that you are taking power away form platforms like YouTube that have creatives' ball sin a vice, same with IG and FB.
Product looks great and congrats on the launch. How are you going to protect content that is shared exclusively by creators? How will you manage content piracy?
@e_b_rosner Creators can earn their income by setting up membership plans on the page they create. They can then share the page with their followers and ask them to subscribe to access content
Seems like a very interesting take on content distribution. How can subscribers communicate with creators?
@rolandlewis thanks Roland. We will be introducing a message inbox in the coming week that will enable creators to directly reach out to their subscribers and vice versa.
How do you assure the quality of content that will be distributed to users? How do you handle refunds requests?
I think your pricing is really competitive compared to Uscreen. I'll keep you in mind.
Why is Geo-blocking not standard, what about buffer times, is there an option for themes?
Also do you have a white-label program?
Really loved the clear articulation of the problem you are solving. Wish you the best.
@joe_perrott Thanks Joe. Please share with your creator friends and help us spread the word
Awesome!
Just curious about how is this different than the GumRoad's Subscription Page?
Love this platform. Many of my content creator friends have been looking to move from Patreon. Competition always helps maintain the right balance.
Cool product founders! I felt like your landing page is a little text heavy and gave some recommendations on your page: https://app.usebubbles.com/1d024... -- let me know if this helps! Good luck!
@tom4 Thanks so much for this Tom. Really appreciate the time and effort on this. Your suggestions definitely help and we will get some of them implemented in the coming weeks. We are also considering adding a video on the top for easier understanding of what we do. Do you think that would help better?
@tom4 Good advice you gave to other landings. Could you please check and comment on our landing, you look at that will improve it? Don’t your mind give your contacts?)
This would be very useful with my audience as I interview content creators for my startup, and they can definitely utlize this! thank you for creating something cool!
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