Comment by huem0n 3 days ago
I've been wanting something like this for a long time. There's a lot of ways this could go wrong, but I hope it works.
I'd especially love a video platform using this model. I can't afford patreon for every YouTube channel, but I'd love to pay 10¢ per hour of video watched.
Yes, Small Transfers can be used for pay-per-view or pay-per-minute billing models.
The platform's biggest risk that I see is a customer defaulting after using a merchant's service. The platform currently mitigates that with Stripe Radar, 3-D Secure, and spending caps, but I'm keen to hear anything specific you're thinking about.
How does tarsnap handle it? I think there's lots of services that bill up front... Isn't it only e-money if you can convert it back to cash?
Where YouTube is my movie player and podcast player and general video player, all of which is done at 2x speed I can't imagine paying $4-6/day for YouTube.
Just my commute listening to a podcast that I downloaded before leaving would cost me $1.50 each way? Nah I'll keep my subscription thanks.
$0.10 per hour is already WAY more than a creator usually gets from your viewing. I'd happily pay that amount for good youtube-like content. Creators would love it because it's far more money than they get now. Consumers would like it because for a lot of people it's cheaper than a subscription, and they could forgo ads