1) Louis CK has a series online called Horace and Pete available for sale through PayPal or Bitcoin. This is a centralized model for selling content that exists right now without Sollywood. What can you offer him in return for the 10-20% fee you propose to take? Why would he, as content creator, provide his content through you?
I think the idea is to build a platform that will even allow
unknown content creators to reach an audience with their content. Louis CK already has an audience and is able to generate sales without such a platform.
The goal is to provide mainstream content
and new content side by side at independent prices.
but questions remain:
- how to get mainstream content providers interested?
and
- what is the benefit of creating a blockchain based currency? Why would the platform not work in the same way if people could deposit and withdraw USD directly? Allowing payments lower than 0.01$ does not require a new currency.
Is the idea to create a blockchain in order to facilitate some kind of "traffic mining" for decentralized streaming through the network? This could be a way for nodes to get Sollars for providing their bandwith and storage. Or are you planning to pay for servers hosting the content?
In my eyes an interesting idea for the kickstarter could be to create a hardware device capable of streaming through the platform and maybe also optionally working as a server providing bandwith to the network. (this whole idea would of course raise a lot of questions)
but then again without already having mainstream content on the platform i doubt much people would be interested in pledging for such a device.
I would really like to read more about the strategy and what exactly you are working on right now. You mention there are more important things right now.. but investments almost stopped because of the uncertainty, so shouldn't it also be of importance to address concerns in a satisfying way?
I believe this can be a great success, but I also think the strategy needs to be much more transparent and reviewable, especially during this phase which is cruical to creating the kickstarter. You try getting people to believe in your idea and become euphoric about potential results. But this is not a mainstream audience that can be convinced by slogans. Potential investors want to make sure there is a realitic way of getting there.