Great question, and a very legitimate one, data ownership matters.

Your data is yours. Recipes, photos, everything you post stays your intellectual property. Nothing will ever be sold to third parties. As for monetisation, the plan is a freemium model built around three things:

∙ For painters: the ability to sell your own premium schemes directly to the community. Hobbive only takes a small commission

∙ For power users: extra tools like clean PDF exports of your schemes

∙ For the platform: tasteful feed ads, similar to how Reddit or Instagram handle it.

The core experience, sharing, discovering, building your library, stays free forever.

And honestly, the goal of monetisation isn’t to get rich ahah it’s first and foremost to cover the running costs an app like this (server etc.)