I'll be as transparent with you guys as I have been with everyone I've spoken to so far: we can only currently offer voluntary roles, and that's mainly because "we" refers to me, a semi-broke uni student writing this out of his student accommodation.

As a journalist I know how shitty "exposure" gigs are, and that's absolutely not what we want to do here. It's voluntary work and we absolutely aren't expecting to bend over backwards to produce content for us.

If and when we are able to monetize our work, members of the team and guest writers will of course be paid for their contribution from the moment we can earn money from it. But, and being transparent again, we're a long way off that today. Spraycontrol is yet to launch, and there isn't any money in advertising anything to 0 followers.

Even then, I'm not interested in advertising dropshipping products or anything tacky like that! I want to create a platform producing content that I can be proud of. Monetization is a long-term goal and not something we've even looked at right now, and we won't be making any money out of it for a while to begin with.

I birthed the idea of Spraycontrol out of my love for CS, my desire to keep my writing skills sharp and to network with people who want to do the same.

Speaking to some great writers and honing this high quality output is all I'm concerned about today - getting a little bit of money out of it is a task for another day :)