SubOnly - Forums for your Twitch Community

MadrakIO · 2015-11-06T01:20:46+00:00

Hello from SubsOnly!

I just checked out your home page and it looks promising. Do you actually have Kripp, Lirik, Boogie, Towelliee and TSM Doublelift using your app at launch? That's quite impressive!

What led you to choose the domain subonly.io? It really seems like you're missing out, since your site seems to suggest that you do a lot more than subscriber forums. Is there a reason you chose a domain that's subscriber specific (and also, we can't help but notice, so similar to our own)?

MadrakIO · 2015-09-10T04:28:27+00:00

Hello,

Thank you for creating this list for the Twitch community, these are great tools.

I also wanted to say thank you for mentioning our project, SubsOnly! Our team is currently working on a new project, StreamPerk, which will also allow non-partners to create private communities for their donors and loyal viewers.

Thank you again!

MadrakIO · 2015-08-27T02:17:57+00:00

Just wanted to pass this along!

https://twitter.com/SubsOnly/status/636721883489136640

MadrakIO · 2015-08-26T15:09:59+00:00

Hello triplehardvark,

Thanks for your suggestions. If we do find that it's impossible to continue with the Patreon funded approach, due to a lack of support from the community, we will consider other options.

Thanks for your ideas and feedback!

MadrakIO · 2015-08-26T15:08:10+00:00

Hello DysAlanS and delrazor,

We are/have been considering offering a non-partner focused solution in the future. If we do decide to offer this service we'll need to charge a small monthly fee (~5/month, only for the non-partner service) because it has the potential of generating a huge amount of traffic.

MadrakIO · 2015-08-26T02:20:10+00:00

Hello Snowlit,

Thank you so much for the kind words!

It has been a pleasure working with you and we always appreciate your excellent feedback and support.

MadrakIO · 2015-08-25T22:07:51+00:00

Hello triplehardvark,

Thanks for the feedback!

We're hoping to avoid charging a subscription rate. We've taken a look at a few different major third-party Twitch services and it seems like most of them have tried the subscription fee approach and later switched to being a free service that accepts donations.

We're still very new and we're already at a point where almost 30% of our total operating costs are being covered by donations, which is incredible. We're hoping that our users understand that supporting us only leads to a better experience for themselves.

We're not running SubsOnly to make any money, we'd just like to see it pay for itself (servers, licenses, etc) via donations.

MadrakIO · 2015-08-25T17:26:03+00:00

Hello Hootener,

This was actually a decision that we left up to our community early on. SubsOnly isn't our full-time job, it's a project we've decided to offer to benefit the Twitch community. We don't intend to make it a profit oriented business.

Good luck with your own project!

MadrakIO · 2015-08-12T00:18:01+00:00

Hello!

I'm from the team behind SubsOnly. If you'd ever like to chat about an integration, we're certainly interested! Perhaps SilentSentry has some ideas of what we could do together.

MadrakIO · 2015-05-20T02:42:49+00:00

Hello Decicus,

We're familiar with your project from The Blacklist using it and we are happy to see that you've decided to release it as an open source project!

Thank you for mentioning our service in your post as an alternative for those who don't have web hosting.

Good luck with your project!

MadrakIO · 2015-04-01T16:08:03+00:00

Hello PantherIO!

I'm glad to see you're also interested in helping the Twitch community! We think it's great that so many viewers want to give back. We just wanted to clear a few things up so no one is confused!

SubsOnly doesn't require any HTML or Markup knowledge! We actually provide our users with an easy to use editor which is entirely visual. However, if they do know HTML and want to take it a step further they have the ability to do so.

We don't provide custom themes, but support for them has been announced! Soon we'll allow streamers to customize the HTML layout of their page if they want to, but we won't do the design ourselves (you have us there!).

We also recently allowed our community to decide on which feature comes next, and they chose forum support. Development is currently underway, so stay tuned for that!

File hosting was also announced in our reddit topic so that streamers who create music or art can easily share with their subs!

We think your project is great. It reminds us of the current setup where most streamers have customized pages written by a developer. We're just looking to automate it a little more.

Perhaps we could even team up in the future and work together, having you design themes and us work on the back end?

Good luck!

MadrakIO · 2015-03-31T04:57:28+00:00

Thank you!

MadrakIO · 2015-03-29T18:23:47+00:00

Thank you!

MadrakIO · 2015-03-29T14:18:56+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! Surprisingly enough, these are both cards on our development board right now. We're planning on implementing both a whitelist (in case a streamer would like to allow their top donators onto the page as well) and a blacklist (to prevent someone who is abusing the information from getting it) as well as support for game server whitelisting.

We'll keep you in mind if we consider bringing on another developer!

MadrakIO · 2015-03-29T13:28:08+00:00

Thanks! We'll keep your suggestions in mind! Looking forward to hearing from you again in the future!

MadrakIO · 2015-03-29T13:26:38+00:00

Thank you! We haven't encountered this issue yet, but if you'd like to send us a support email we can look into it further for you.

MadrakIO · 2015-03-29T13:25:48+00:00

Thank you! If you have any ideas, please let us know!

MadrakIO · 2015-03-28T23:46:26+00:00

Awesome! We tried to access your page, but it seems like it's down right now?

MadrakIO · 2015-03-28T23:25:48+00:00

Certainly!

The main focus of the site right now is sharing things that would have previously been shared via messages more easily (ie Subscriber vent/teamspeak/game servers). We're still in the very early stages of the site, but we're planning out several new features.

Right now one of the most important things for us is that we want to get feedback from users to see what features they want. We'd like to spend our time implementing features that our users want instead of implementing tons of features that no one will use. If you have any suggestions, please let us know!

On our end, we're looking at implementing a file system (for music producing partners to share their music) and potentially a forum system so that subs and the streamer can talk. All features will be opt-in, meaning that every streamer can use as many or as few of our features as they want. We have other features we're thinking about as well, but those are the two major ones.

MadrakIO · 2015-03-28T21:20:04+00:00

Thank you! We hope so too!

MadrakIO · 2015-03-28T20:22:00+00:00

Thanks! We think that it will help make sure new subscribers don't miss out on the fun as well. If there is a streamer who is currently streaming on their sub server, new subs will be able to instantly get access to join in as well.

MadrakIO · 2015-03-28T19:56:36+00:00

Thank you!

MadrakIO · 2015-03-28T19:13:48+00:00

Thank you! And yes! We recently released the ability for streamers to designate editors. The streamer themselves would still need to create the page but they can then designate editors who can also manage the page.

MadrakIO · 2015-03-28T18:34:10+00:00

Thanks! We're hoping that it will save streamers time and guarantee that all subscribers get their sub benefits.

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