Do you think it’s possible for it to be (mostly) self financed through bed/room rentals any time in the near future, or do you think it will always rely primarily on donors?
I think it *could* be financed by room rentals, but that would require raising prices which kinda defeats the point of the guest rooms. I would then need to optimize harder in the AirBnB direction, which would mean less focus on being good for community events and hanging out.
It’s also possible that it could be funded by people paying to cowork or host events there, but again, I want to keep the barriers to entry for using the space fairly low.
There are certainly options we could pursue that would take it in a more commercial direction that would probably make money, but then it wouldn’t have the ethos I’m attempting to create, and I’d want to pass the project off to someone else.
I think the Patreon funding model is basically the right one, and better than charging directly for things—it’s a built-in sliding scale, people can pick their own happy prices for the use they’re getting out of the space, and it encourages using the space more rather than less.
Thanks for all the work on this!
Do you think it’s possible for it to be (mostly) self financed through bed/room rentals any time in the near future, or do you think it will always rely primarily on donors?
I think it *could* be financed by room rentals, but that would require raising prices which kinda defeats the point of the guest rooms. I would then need to optimize harder in the AirBnB direction, which would mean less focus on being good for community events and hanging out.
It’s also possible that it could be funded by people paying to cowork or host events there, but again, I want to keep the barriers to entry for using the space fairly low.
There are certainly options we could pursue that would take it in a more commercial direction that would probably make money, but then it wouldn’t have the ethos I’m attempting to create, and I’d want to pass the project off to someone else.
I think the Patreon funding model is basically the right one, and better than charging directly for things—it’s a built-in sliding scale, people can pick their own happy prices for the use they’re getting out of the space, and it encourages using the space more rather than less.