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Kevin William David

99Circles - Subscription community platform for digital creators

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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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Titus Decali
What are the benefits of using this over Patreon?
Alan DSouza
Maker
@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
Titus Decali
@dsouzaalan Thanks for your nice explanation. I like the way you are thinking about pricing. That sounds quite reasonable ^^
Deej Tulleken
@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.
Alan DSouza
Maker
@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.
Stuart Wilson
@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.
Alan DSouza
Maker
Thanks for hunting us @kevin ! Hi Product Hunt, I am super delighted to be launching my first product today on ProductHunt! Being digital creators ourselves, we always wanted to have a super simple way of monetising creative talent and that's how we came up with 99Circles. 99Circles is a platform that enables digital creators to create a steady recurring revenue stream from the content they create. It enables them to create their own page and setup subscription based access to their content in less than 2 minutes even without any technical skills. For most users, 99Circles provides a platform to find, support and interact with high quality content and their favourite creators in an ad-free frictionless environment. For Digital Creators, 99Circles enables them to - - Create their own pages describing what they do - Get discovered by more subscribers who are looking to consume/support similar content - Setup multiple membership plans with weekly, fortnightly and monthly recurring billing options - Setup trial access to the content they create - Pledge support to a cause and gather community support for the same through their content - Distribute any content type - Articles, Photos, Videos, Audio files, Documents, Youtube links or any other file types as well - Get analytics and data on which content type works best for them - Get stress free payouts without having to deal with gateways, chargebacks or any such inconveniences with preferred invoicing methods globally. 99Circles is absolutely free to use upto 25 subscribers and can be used by creators of any kind to build and grow their subscription community online. In the coming weeks, we plan to launch mobile apps, DRM content protection, direct messaging, newsletters and several more features to make it easier for creators to distribute and interact with their subscribers. Being our first product here, we have tried our best to cover most tools that we thought were most useful for creators. We would love it if you could introduce 99Circles to the digital creators around you and help build this platform as a community of creative talent. We're more than happy to answer any queries and would love your feedback on our product. Looking forward to building 99Circles as a one stop platform for digital creators. Cheers! Alan
Alexander Spoor
This looks very promising @dsouzaalan! Do you have a demo page of what a community page looks like?
Alan DSouza
Maker
@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.
Tom Medema
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!
Alan DSouza
Maker
@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?
Ilya Narsia
@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?)
Trell West
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!
Alan DSouza
Maker
@trellwest Thanks Trell. Please give it a try. Would love your feedback
Joe Perrott
Really loved the clear articulation of the problem you are solving. Wish you the best.
Alan DSouza
Maker
@joe_perrott Thanks Joe. Please share with your creator friends and help us spread the word
Isaac Davis
great interest in your site https://www.producthunt.com
Alan DSouza
Maker
@robert_stokes Yes, thanks. Glad that the community liked it
Pavan Sethi
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?
Alan DSouza
Maker
@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 .
Oleg
Idea is great, would be cool to have a demo link to check overall look and feel
Philip Hofmacher
This looks great. Do you guys already have an idea on how to attract user?
Alan DSouza
Maker
@philip_hofmacher Thanks Philip. Do you mean getting subscribers to creator pages or getting creators to use our platform?
Alan DSouza
Maker
@philip_hofmacher We are depending on some viral referral programs to achieve that
Roland Lewis
Seems like a very interesting take on content distribution. How can subscribers communicate with creators?
Alan DSouza
Maker
@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.
Lynn Fredricks
What's the plan to help non 99circles subscribers for finding pages?
Alan DSouza
Maker
@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.
Lynn Fredricks
@dsouzaalan For finding them from outside the system or only inside?
E.b. Rosner
There’s a disconnect on how you actually earn income.
Alan DSouza
Maker
@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
CJ Milli
Your payout options don't work - when you click to set it up nothing happens! this is important :(
Alan DSouza
Maker
@cjmilli Thanks for letting us know. I think we missed this out while changing options. We are fixing this right away.
Mustafa Tek
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Mirna Kestlin
I think this is great platform, found some really useful stuff on it.
Alan DSouza
Maker
@mirna_kestlin Thanks a lot. Glad you liked it
Dave Wesley
How do you assure the quality of content that will be distributed to users? How do you handle refunds requests?
Shawn Harley
Love this platform. Many of my content creator friends have been looking to move from Patreon. Competition always helps maintain the right balance.
Richard Torres
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?
Martin Gomez
Seems like an interesting idea!!Definitely worth trying
Redmon Borinèz
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!