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by dnpotter1 898 days ago
Other than no funding and a team size of 1? ;-)

Slightly different vision and approach but both are publishing platforms. There’s plenty of room for competition in this space, I think.

Monetisation: Seedling uses direct tipping instead of NFTs. Plans for paid subscriptions to private content. Crowdsourcing will offer share of tips for investment.

Architecture: Seedling is primarily a discovery service and will allow content to be hosted on different platforms. Seedling has no backend server to deliver content.
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spaceman_2020 897 days ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing.

Any plan on integrating other chains? This would be great on Solana

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dnpotter1 897 days ago
I considered Solana. Lower fees allows for micro tipping. Polygon is pretty cheap though, less that 0.3 cents at current prices. Its the sort of app that really needs to stick to one chain to save confusion and complexity, I think.
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spaceman_2020 897 days ago
The problem is Polygon's general unreliability and lack of end users. Almost no one I know ever has any cash on Polygon. It's either Solana, ETH, or something like Arbitrum
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dnpotter1 896 days ago
That's interesting. Sites like DappRadar show far more Polygon apps than Solana apps (https://dappradar.com/rankings/chains, https://www.alchemy.com/dapps). I don't know how representative that is though.

I've noticed occasional issues with Polygon, which is frustrating, and some intermittent viem/Metamask errors that I only seem to get with Polygon. I've put it down to the immaturity of the web3 stack for now but it needs to get better.

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