It’s unfortunate that Patreon doesn’t work better at connecting potential patrons with creators (which it notoriously doesn’t). I’ve thought about starting a Patreon-funded short story magazine, but realistically I know that I’d spend a lot of time just building up the audience, with no guarantee that I’d ever reach a useful level.
Originally shared by Walter Roberson
Yes, that’s how it seems to work. And it’s great that it enables people who’ve built a large audience to monetise that and support their creativity. It just doesn’t help much with the actual audience building, from what I hear.
Maybe it’s just me but I find Patreon somewhat difficult to navigate and/or search.
It’s not just you, and that’s a big part of the problem. If they made creators more discoverable, it would go a long way to solving the problem.
Mike Reeves-McMillan. It’s almost as bad as trying to find stuff on iTunes.
Sometimes I want to write my own SQL to eliminate foreign language podcasts, audiobooks and evangelical claptrap from the result set.
Because, of course, search and discovery are completely unsolved problems and nobody knows how to do them.
Mike Reeves-McMillan. And consumers don’t really know what they want or what they’re looking for anyway.
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