Promotion & Adoption Started May 4, 2026 9:21 AM

Patreon Competitor?

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May 4, 2026 9:21 AM Last edited Jun 4, 2026 11:35 PM
#1
freelance

As far as I know there are already:

  1. E-commerce market = XMRBazaar
  2. Freelance market = monero.jobs
  3. Donation and Stream = Xmrchat

But i still didn't see a subscription service that can become alternative to Patreon. What make Patreon interesting is that you can make a tiered service for your supporter and plus you can give exclusive content that only the member can access. Does anyone know such service exist within the Monero community?

UPDATE:
Because there is few information available on the service with such concept thus born OpenFans, a membership platform for people that want to monetize their content made by @nolan.

Site: https://xmrstars.com/
If you like with the vision of the project, consider supporting it through: https://xmrchat.com/openfans

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Jun 1, 2026 1:29 PM
#72

XMRStar(s), really like the sound of that !
Cherry is good too. I'm not feeling the more weeb sounding names, might give the wrong impression that it's exclusively anime shit. It didn't even occur to me OpenFans is dangerously close to OnlyFans.

Which reminds me, as it's inevitable a website with such concept will inevitably be filled with degenerate rubbish, I wouldn't want to support the content at all, but I do like the anti-censorship principles, the collaboration happening here, and the growth of the XMR-enabled industry.

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Jun 1, 2026 1:40 PM
#73

+1 on xmrstar(s) as well lol, tots skipped over it i guess if was suggested earlier
(PokerStars been pretty succesful too lol)

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Jun 1, 2026 1:43 PM
#74

@avarice
and my bad going aggro on you yet again, you noticed something that could have been an issue in the naming so thanks on that

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Jun 1, 2026 2:27 PM
#75

@sepia
regarding your last comment, imma just share my own perspective on that, which is literally just 1 perspective, dont wanna be the bigger voice on things type thing...

from what i noticed, most nsfw artists dont even wanna associate with the artists that make those, so in a way, that could also bottleneck adoption there

and to give an example of that, like, i have my own beefs with lots of monero people, kinda being controversial making dramas for literally no reason and whatnot lol
so lots of monero people so far didnt join the forum yet, while they could have
and some that did but didnt stay around i guess? (jeffro? lol)
like it a bit too much for some u know

so i think it would be similar there, but at the end of the day, it's @nolan project, with community feedback so yea at the end of the day, yall do whatever yall wanna do pretty much

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Jun 1, 2026 2:41 PM Edited Jun 1, 2026 2:43 PM
#76

@lIlIIllIIIIllllII Thank you for your feedback. Yeah it would put bad image on the project even if they're not breaking any law whatsoever. I will be more diligent with who i'll invite. I still believe artist will bring a great wave of value to the community overall and that's been proven with Patreon itself with how big their economy now. And even now i'm surprised with how much responses this thread get from such idea. Thank you everyone who's been following and participating in this post.

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Jun 3, 2026 11:55 AM
#77

I'm searching on people that getting banned on Patreon and i'm surprised that even big youtuber got targeted

Other people that have the same sentiment

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Jun 3, 2026 1:17 PM
#78

@sepia ^ quality research out here, gratz on that <3

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Jun 3, 2026 1:26 PM
#79

@cipherchan Thank you cipherchan. I'm surprised tbh that there also recent drama about Patreon with their founder statement. The censorship really getting more intense

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Jun 4, 2026 10:56 AM Edited Jun 4, 2026 11:00 AM
#80

Hey Everyone, sorry for taking a while got get back here :)

I wanna start with child content topic, as @lIlIIllIIIIllllII mentioned that this creators can cause drama in the community. I agree on that one. Community is very sensitive about those type of content/content creators and should be too. My suggestion is we shouldn't allow those type of content, at least for now. If community request those type of content, we can still discuss in future BUT I really dont wanna deal with those type of content in moderation, it can cause me a brain cancer :) even tho we can host those type of content in our servers.

Thank you again for yall giving feedback about the new name, I just purchased the new domain name xmrstars.com on Incognet, sending a photo of how much I spent on it. This is the first time I am using the communities funds. Also sent the recent tips to our main wallet via xmrchat.com/openfans

@sepia, thank you for hardworking on research, patreon not just blocking creators, also sometimes blocking supporters account/payments. They dont respect privacy, want you to not use any VPN, whenever they detect those activities, they most likely blocking the actions.

Lets talk about the recent development progress. Last weekend I couldn't work much but those are the main changes on the project:

  • SMTP implementation - I created a new email address (noreply@openfans.at) and added on our web app
  • Password Reset feature - if content creators added they own email address (this is optional for every user) they can receive password reset email.
  • Small changes on models of the creators, such as; is_nsfw type for filtering the other user's dashboard etc

In SMTP, we are using Purelymail which I highly recommend anybody who looking for cheap email service (i wish they accept monero :( ) but of course if things goes high, we can change to something else, or self hosting our own things.

I believe after name changes, we can use star icon on our logo @sepia :) i believing your talent on that

Whenever domain order approved on the Incognet, I will update the xmrstars.com with current website, and our old domain name openfans.at will redirect to traffic to xmrstars.com. ( or maybe we should create a crypto porn website lol )

What do you guys think about publishing the project on Monero CCS?
Thank you everyone for donations, feedbackS and support here, next week I will be working more on project.

Password Reset Email

Donations, almost all of them sent to main wallet

Domain name purchase

BTW, Current total donations: 1.837950508631XMR on our main wallet. Thank you again whoever donated the project <3

Edit: Duplicated picture, added the total donation.

Signature

intern at xmrstars.com
nolan <3 monero

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Jun 4, 2026 11:05 AM
#81

@nolan Gotcha Nolan. I'm on it. This afternoon i got some inspiration struck in my mind. I'll share it once i'm done making it

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