TIL Patreon's estimated revenue in 2021 is $160m, and Substack's is $11.9m.

Anecdotal but I don't know anyone using Patreon yet know tons on Substack. Would have assumed less of a delta.

Yeah, take rates do seem to be high for these platforms.

Crypto should help with this imo. Crypto recurring subscription on some L2 = ultra cheap gas, no intermediaries, and small take rate depending on platform implementation

cma.xyz. Founder /paragraph, ceo /mirror, previously at Google & Coinbase 

Is there a good solution for recurring billing with crypto yet? My understanding is that automatic payments were difficult because each automatic payment has to be signed by the wallet

Simplifying crypto payments

Learn more: https://www.loopcrypto.xyz/

Book a call to get started:
https://meetings.hubspot.com/jeff-cangialosi/discovery

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Both Unlock and @loopcrypto provide solutions where buyers can authorize once and get crypto periodically withdrawn every N days. Great UX imo compared to what was previously possible.

Keep an eye on Paragraph in the next few weeks to see it in action :)