- Don't just be a Patreon competitor... Be an OnlyFans competitor...
- Paying $5 let's you Slime another user. A green png of nickelodeon slime is placed on top of their avatar for a few days.
- Beloved banner ads that are weird and become community memes. These should be for weird small businesses and for 18+ users probably sex toy boutiques lbr
- Sponsored Vacation Days. Users can donate $400 to sponsor giving their favorite staff member a day off. Said user is celebrated publicly for their generosity and we all thank them for donating a day off.
- The Money Hole. Users can "purchase" randomly chosen "fortunes" "curses" and "blessings" (written by cohost's writer community) with the statement that the more money you throw into the Money Hole the more powerful the fortune, curse, or blessing will be. This functions as a way for users to make large one time contributions to Cohost while still "making a purchase" so it's not a "donation"
- If you mail $20 cash to staff you receive a monthly Donation Item which your avatar can wear to look like an anime catgirl
- It now costs $3 to make a post about computers. The angry tech worker crowd will shell out the bucks to continue complaining about computers.
- We do not implement comment likes but we do implement paying to put a little trophy on comments which puts them at the top of the comments section.
- Friends of Eggbug Society. Group that actively organized fundraisers for Cohost like a library Friends group.
- Users can pay to "win the argument" or "win the discourse." For $15 a green banner appears on a comment in a thread which says "THIS USER HAS WON THE ARGUMENT" and that comment can no longer be replied to, ensuring the winner has the final word.
- Tumblr lets you pay to give another user crabs. Cohost lets you pay to give another user a yeast infection
- Multi-Level Marketing
I have one idea
- 5 dollar apologies. Pay cohost 5 bucks to force a user, picked at random, to lose user functionality until they say they're sorry to you. The chosen user will be greeted to a text input box and a prompt saying "Apologize to your brother/sister/sibling [determined by pronouns input on user's profile [trying to figure interaction for that one out right now]], NOW."
let me pay 10 dollars to put the get along shirt on two users who are beefing over something dumb
what if we had both the "pay to get a comment to the top of the page" and an opposite one where you pay to have a comment buried and whichever one was most recent is used.
also: what if cohost just did some SomethingAwful shit and let people pay to put a little bit of text underneath someone's avatar to let everyone know you think they're really cool (never happened on SA but would happen here) or a fuckhead (happened all the time on SA and probably would happen here also)
also the thing tumblr did where you could pay to put an emblem on someone's username. maia crimew has like a billion ticks next to its name, that's fucking hilarious i love it.
staff i'm sorry but all my ideas for making cohost more money without making cohost annoying revolve around comedy.
edit: oh hold on i got another idea. let me pay to pet someone (it puts a poorly transparency'd animated gif of a hand doing a petting motion on top of the head of their avatar). this must be stackable.
