The article is complaining that Patreon is not a full banking app.
Well, duh.
Patrons and small-time creators are very happy with what it does, and don't care about what it doesn't do - Patreon pays the monthly rent of a lot of artists who have no other short-term options until their career is in full-swing. By contrast, Youtube is notorious for being unreliable as a revenue source.
My only complaints about Patreon are:
- the app is one of the slowest web apps today. Actually, I lied - it's the slowest. Shame on the programming team behind this. Get your shit together.
- they just started charging sales tax on donations if the creator offers rewards content (almost all do so.) That doesn't make sense for posting a video link a day early, foreign artists, etc.
- I think a VC bought Patreon. We know how that always ends.
My suggestions are:
- profile the app performance and fix it.
- maybe ask the article author what he's expecting for discoverability on a payment app. Perhaps adding a couple pieces of metadata alone might help?
Source: I used it daily as a Patron from July, 2019 through June, 2020 while providing feedback to a creator.
Well, duh.
Patrons and small-time creators are very happy with what it does, and don't care about what it doesn't do - Patreon pays the monthly rent of a lot of artists who have no other short-term options until their career is in full-swing. By contrast, Youtube is notorious for being unreliable as a revenue source.
My only complaints about Patreon are:
- the app is one of the slowest web apps today. Actually, I lied - it's the slowest. Shame on the programming team behind this. Get your shit together.
- they just started charging sales tax on donations if the creator offers rewards content (almost all do so.) That doesn't make sense for posting a video link a day early, foreign artists, etc.
- I think a VC bought Patreon. We know how that always ends.
My suggestions are:
- profile the app performance and fix it.
- maybe ask the article author what he's expecting for discoverability on a payment app. Perhaps adding a couple pieces of metadata alone might help?
Source: I used it daily as a Patron from July, 2019 through June, 2020 while providing feedback to a creator.