I built Zyke: Discussion Forum, a discussion forum & social news aggregator like Reddit. Loads fast, moderation is transparent, has user mentions (@), hashtags (#), a democratic voting system and a modern rich text editor.
But how do I monetize without running ads? That’s why I’m skeptical about adding Zyke to the fediverse. The community dislikes products with ads, so it feels like a bad idea to me. I don’t even intend to put pop up ads, just clean banner adverts
Apart from the fact that ads in the fediverse are just wrong and hopefully still decades away:
Such a flood of coders who suddenly come up with perfect, prime time ready software. In their opinion. Usually with at least one eye on monetization.
Before so-called AI it took years and a whole team. And first came the call for testing.
So yeah, I’m highly skeptical about how usable this would be if I even considered using it.