Show HN: I made a public chat where you pay to speak

[bahrtw]

So I made this thing: https://www.paytosay.it

It’s a public chat room, but there’s a catch: You have to pay to say something.

Each message costs real money.There are 1,000 message slots total. Once they're filled, that's it, the chat becomes a permanent digital time capsule.

Why? I don’t know. Maybe I was tired of the noise. Maybe I wanted to see what happens when people really have to think before they post. Or maybe I just wanted to burn a hole in my own wallet.

Anyway, it's live. It works.

Let me know if this is: a) brilliant b) dumb c) the start of a dystopian messaging platform d) all of the above

Would love your thoughts (but not too many, there’s only 1,000 messages ).

- Bart

[NKosmatos]

I had a very similar idea but never materialized it, a big bravo to you for actually building something and not staying at the idea level.

I assume you want to make some money out of it? Like the guy that made 1mil for selling pixels. Hope it works for you ;-)

A few questions that might help you… Are you going to be moderating/censoring text and images? What about companies using your chat to advertise? What do you mean by a permanent time capsule? How many years are the messages going to be preserved? Do you have a character limit on the message? Could see a hard limit.

[bahrtw]

Thanks for your reply! Haha, it was on my mind for weeks so I thought SHIP it. It's part social experiment, part digital art, and part time capsule.

The idea is to capture raw, unfiltered thoughts frozen in time. Messages are meant to be permanent. like a snapshot of now...so they'll stay up as long as the project exists. Ideally, that’s decades?

People can include links or images. I don’t plan to moderate content unless it’s illegal or clearly harmful.