Comments on: Start-Up Story: IndieKarma Micropayments

By: mirc

mirc — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:01:40 +0000

Blaine – I agree, I’m quite interested to see how the service goes too.

By: » Blog Archive » Our First Week

» Blog Archive » Our First Week — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:45:13 +0000

[...] It’s been about a week since our soft launch of the system. Basically, our launch has consisted of me emailing people all day, and letting them know about what we’ve put together, and what we see as the benefits of a micro support system like indieKarma. Yaro Starak over at entrepreneurs-journey.com was very kind to let us write a little piece about the application that appeared as a recent posting on his blog about internet business. Joel Cheesman at Cheezhead also posted a couple of his thoughts about the system. So far we’re pretty happy. We can see that traffic has picked up on the site as people stop by to check out what we’ve done, and a number of people have signed up to demo the system. [...]

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:38:17 +0000

Hi Dark Moon, this is Brad form indieKarma. One of the things we are trying to accomplish is to make the system “seamless” – so that the user (account holder) isn’t continually prompted to chose to pay a penny or not.. The idea is, that if an end user decides to start an account – they have already decided to support independent content at a penny a visit – regardless of the content. If the end user doesn’t like what they see, they won’t return and have only spent a penny in support. If they like what they see, they’ll be back more then once, with a penny at each visit. Basically the system rewards the site an end user goes to most often

By: Dark Moon

Dark Moon — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:19:57 +0000

This sounds very interesting! But maybe it would be even better if the user could configure for which sites he wants to pay? Now it seems like you can end up on a site that is crap, but you can’t revoke the payment that has been made already… I can also imagine this system being abused by spammers.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 07:59:06 +0000

Blaine – I agree, I’m quite interested to see how the service goes too.

I don’t plan on using it however, mainly because my priority at my blogs is to BE READ, not to make money directly from my writing. While I think advertising is a good way to monetize a site I’m more interested in establishing relationships with my readers and I think it’s important that the barriers to reading my content are minimal.

By: Jag Senghera

Jag Senghera — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:55:12 +0000

I love the idea however when I tested it on my blog with IE it didnt work…hope they can fix it so it works..

By: Blaine Moore (Run to Win)

Blaine Moore (Run to Win) — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:16:32 +0000

It seems like a good idea, but I don’t like the demo system. I signed up, looked at all four demo pages and got docked the four cents, but then never saw the thank you message on any of them. I had to log out to see the normal message, which blocks part of the bottom of the page, and then after logging back in still couldn’t see the thank you message since (I assume) it was within the first hour and I wasn’t docked again.

Either way, I think the service has promise and I am going to keep my eye on them. Do you think that you will sign up with them, Yaro?

By: adam

adam — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:55:45 +0000

Seems like a good idea, hope you all the best.