5% wouldn't be enough to pay my cost of living, let alone an entire team to really push this project forward. 10% is the number I am aiming for, which could cover me and probably a few part time contractors. I went up 5% more to 15% in advance so I had 5% wiggle room and some space to allocate funds to community owners without having to hike the rate in the future.
If I had a mountain of cash like steemit.com had, I wouldn't be using this feature at all. Unfortunately though, I don't have a ton of money, just some time and skills to try and make this happen. I know I already responded to your other post, but figured I'd leave a couple more thoughts here.
Thank you for the extra clarification.
How did you decide that 5% is too low? How many articles do you expect to be written on your platform? It is not the percentage only that matters. Volume is much more important.
I think if you lower the %, you will get a much higher volume and your income will be much more.
My 2 cents, wishing you the best of luck.
You're absolutely right, the volume is what matters the most.
Here's some assumptions and goals I based the calculations on:
So if we say 10% of daily rewards (
50k * 10% = ~5k/day/value
) is what the users are generating via chainBB, and 10% of that value goes to chainBB via beneficiaries, that's around5k * 10% = ~500/day/value
that chainBB can generate. 500/day is roughly 182k/year in earnings, which is enough for:Looking at 5% in this equation, you can basically cut it all in half. So 5% rewards @ 10% of network traffic would be ~90k/year, which would include a pretty low developer salary after hosting costs and some contract work are removed.
All of this thought was pre-hf19 (when distribution was stable) and assuming STEEM is approximately $1.5. Currently after HF19 the rewards pool is unstable and I'm waiting for it to become stable before I rework the math - it's fluctuating pretty wildly right now.
Your calculations are reasonable. But you should take some factors into consideration:
1 - Steem is expanding daily and the number of users and posts is booming and expected to continue like that.
2 - After hf19, the rewards has increased dramatically.
Best of luck.
Both are true currently, but not guarantee's for the future.
Thanks for engaging me on these topics - they're important discussions and I really appreciate the thought you're putting forth towards this!
clear on that wish he gets it and work true