At Cent, our mission is to enable anyone to make a creative income. We build tools to address the biggest challenges for creatives of all types: aggregating audience, managing distribution, retaining ownership of intellectual property, and monetization.
This is the most interesting thing on Product Hunt today, imo. By backing a creator early on, fans can also "earn" in the upside. That also incentivizes fans to become evangelists.
I'm curious what types of creators you're seeing on the platform, @pav_sethi. Any examples to share?
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@rrhoover Great question. We are currently on the cusp of a major shift. We started off with a mainly crypto-focused audience because of the nature of the payments and incentives on the network. As we iterated on the mechanisms, we started to see a shift towards more crypto art and digital art. And in the past few months, we're seeing more mainstream subcommunities begin to flourish - things like photography, poetry, comedy, even gaming and vlogs.
With this release, one of the major things we worked on is making the product as easy to use as possible (i.e. so easy your grandma could use it). We think this will be the key to onboarding creators of all types, so they don't have to focus on understanding a new platform and the technology behind it. So they can focus on what they love doing - creating.
@rrhoover One theme of content types has been documenting "the process". Many creators not only share their final work, but document the steps that went into creating. Fans seem to really connect with creators more as they learn more about their process, and it's also the perfect way for aspiring creators to learn. I think this is missing on other platforms. It really gives you a "behind the scenes" feel and gets away from the Instagram-like idea that every thing you post has to be absolutely perfect and in its final form.
@pav_sethi Thanks, sorry for sounding aggressive. I'm on it now and I'm wondering (a) do I connect a bank account so I can seed and where do I do this? (b) Right now it seems like I can spot people, the button clicks, but it shows up nowhere in the earnings page, even under the spot tab. (c) Does Cent collect any commission from creators?
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@alunimoony Not at all! Thanks for alerting us, it was a small bug that we were able to resolve quickly. a) Currently, you can purchase ETH on Coinbase and send it over to Cent. There will be instruction videos posted on the site by tomorrow that explain exactly how to do this. You'll be able to purchase with a debit card or credit card on Cent very soon. b) Do you have money in your Spot balance before clicking? If so, it may take a minute to update, but this may be a bug, which I'll look into right now. c) We currently take 5% from all money Seeded to Creators.
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Joined Cent just before it received this wonderful update! I've seeded five creators and got seeded by five users, so far so good. It's a breeze of fresh air in a sea of social networks oriented towards amassing followers and hollow likes.
@zellersamuel1 this is so incredible to see. Happy that you get it like we get it👊 Spots > empty likes all day. Super excited to watch creators and their fans really start earning larger and larger sums together.
Seems a combination of Ello and Steem, with a side of CryptoKitties.
Signing up with BOTH email and Magic links was confusing and didn't work on iOS, but otherwise I like what I'm seeing so far...!
@chrismessina Sorry for the trouble! We are working with our partner at Magic to help resolve that issue. Please bear with us a little longer as we get that fixed. In the meantime it appears that users who unblock scripts or cookies (for example if you use Brave browser with shields off) do not have that issue.
@jun_gong thanks much Jun! Our goal is to continue refining the product and adding features to strengthen our mission: allow anyone to earn from anywhere.
I have been a cent member for a while now and while I am opposed to change, I must admit I am loving the new Cent, the updates have proven their worth to me and all my followers at the Church de Dabdragon! It's absolutely Dabdragon Approved and comes with CryptoArt League Seal of Approval for Excellence
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@dragon4366 Great to hear! We did our best to improve the design and experience, while keeping the parts that our first users loved. Many more updates to come.
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