streemit.online is Being Developed & Needs YOUR help!
While not currently open for registration the plan is to launch by the end of the week. However before we can fully launch streemit.online some help from the community is needed to cover the financial cost of getting the servers set up for streaming and the software licences bought to get the site out of alpha mode and able to stream to thousands of users concurrently.
The Business Model
The way streemit.online will pay it's upkeep costs is by taking a small percentage of all SBD tips and transfers on the site as a fee. While popular streaming sites featuring tipping charge upwards of 40% fees on all tips given to the users streaming on their sites streemit.online doesn't exist to pad my pockets. It exists to give Steemit.com users a sweet place to hang out and tip each other their hard earned SBD for streaming fun and interesting content.
We're going to launch the site with fees set at 5% taken from tips to see if it's enough to cover server costs. The hope is this is enough to cover all streaming and web server costs but if it isn't we'll adjust accordingly. If the site breaks even or runs in a tiny profit that would be preferable.. However it's not built for profit.
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Projected Costs to get streemit.online Running
Streeming Engine: (~$2000 or $65/month)
While that is a lot of money for me personally (in fact more than I currently possess) it's my hope that with this proposal a fair chunk of that raised by this post to help cover the costs of the streaming software. It's also worth mentioning that paying a monthly fee for unrestricted access to their software and streaming codes is available for around $65 / month (plus server costs) and is a viable option to get the site running if I fail to raise the funds to purchase the Wowza streaming engine license outright.
Streeming Client: (~$450 or $45/month)
On top of the Wowza streaming engine a license for the actual client setup used on streemit.online also has to be purchased. While setting up a similar streaming site an affordable and easy to use streaming client was found which enables nearly all modern browsers to be able to view and broadcast live streams world wide. To outright purchase the license is $450 or to rent it monthly is $45. Depending on what this post earns towards the development of this platform will dictate if we outright purchase the whole license or rent it monthly:
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Servers for Streeming: (~$??? or $???/month)
All of this expensive software needs servers to run on as well! While the web front end server has been purchased and is currently being developed on another, larger, more powerful server must be attained in order to run the Wowza streaming engine and store video that users wish to store for the future. Currently a monthly budget of $100 to run servers seems possible and the front end server costs around $18 a month which I'm covering out of pocket. As demand and usage grows servers will be scaled up accordingly.
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Ahh I see you have Cheetah running around. Ok @vetvso @pilgrimtraveler @exploretraveler are on board for 25 SBD sent from our exploretraveler account. We enlisted the help of hilarski and he is on board for 25 SBD as well. So I'm hoping with another 100 SBD you can launch. What do you think?
I'm currently looking to offload some BTC to pay for server rental costs. :)
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This was an interesting business concept, but it appears the site is no longer up. Hopefully something like this will be revived.