I heard about it and I know enough about it to know that it is scarcely known. The problem is not making something that caters to a small group of users. The problem is doing it at scale.
I agree, it is scarcely known. However it does confirm that the technical problem of Patreon isn’t rocket science if it can be solved by volunteers on a very restricted budget.
> The problem is doing it at scale.
IMO that’s more down to support/operations than tech.
Subscription aggregation services already existed WAY Before Patreon. So the technical problem was never rocket science.
The technical problem was, and still is, making it easy, safe, legal and scaling it to millions of users. Like every single technical problem in the tech startup world.
