Ask HN: Content creators who've signed up for Brave's BAT, how's it going?

43 points by basicallydan 5 years ago | 5 comments

Having a few spare minutes this morning when I stumbled across the BAT wallet in my Coinbase account and decided to look more into it. As someone who regularly produces YouTube and Reddit content as well as content for my own site (which I often share here), it seemed like it might be worthwhile. So I've signed up. Obviously nothing yet, but I was interested in hearing from other publishers/creators/whatever who've signed up:

* Who is your audience?

* Do you receive any BAT?

* How much of your audience appears to be using Brave and are contributing BAT?

I'm going to use Brave for non-work things for the next week or two and buy about $15 worth of BAT so I can help contribute to this little experimental attention economy.

Thanks for reading/answering.

luckyshot 5 years ago |

I will earn $5 this month.

It's peanuts compared to Adsense and other income streams but you can monetize channels you can't do traditionally such as Twitter, GitHub, Reddit... which is interesting.

Hopefully it'll become more popular. As a consumer, the idea of having a monthly budget that gets divided across every creator you spend your time on is great and fair, which makes the Internet a bit more beautiful.

curryst 5 years ago | |

The total comp is lower, but do you have any info on how it compares per-user or per-view? I'm just curious if Brave actually pays less, or if it's a question of scale.

basicallydan 5 years ago | |

Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes, I like the sound of this model too, at least for now. It'll be interesting to see how it scales if it does indeed scale!

Throwaway1771 5 years ago | | |

I figured it would have by now.

The walled gardens are holding this up.

josephd79 5 years ago |

I use the brave browser and earn BAT. I’ve earned over $100 this year just browsing the web. Nothing great but I was already using the browser daily so it’s not like I added any more effort.

I let it get up to around 20-40 bucks then Cash it out.

Hobby money.

I did send some to some creators. I like how you can set it up automatically to do that.