Judging by the incumbents, your next steps are (in loose chronological order):
* begin harvesting user data immediately, prep for sales to advertisers
* slowly change the site until it alienates your original crop of users
* implement a series of user-hostile changes that make it difficult for users to have meaningful interactions with anyone but advertisers
* Use the billions of dollars you got from selling personal data to fund a propaganda campaign about how "privacy is dead" and to buy the mansions all around yours, so that you can protect your own privacy.
What about turning it into a general website for people looking to find collaborators or employment for video and other creative projects?
If that exists - I'd be interested to know what the site is.
Business model? How about an equipment rental database. People list their saxophone / cowboy hat / commodore 64 etc, and you get a piece of the rental fee for every transaction. No upfront costs that would cause signup friction. Or you could do that with just voice acting bookings.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 18.5 ms ] thread* begin harvesting user data immediately, prep for sales to advertisers
* slowly change the site until it alienates your original crop of users
* implement a series of user-hostile changes that make it difficult for users to have meaningful interactions with anyone but advertisers
* Use the billions of dollars you got from selling personal data to fund a propaganda campaign about how "privacy is dead" and to buy the mansions all around yours, so that you can protect your own privacy.
If that exists - I'd be interested to know what the site is.
Business model? How about an equipment rental database. People list their saxophone / cowboy hat / commodore 64 etc, and you get a piece of the rental fee for every transaction. No upfront costs that would cause signup friction. Or you could do that with just voice acting bookings.