Though it’s possible to make more than the monthly cost of a subscription, this probably wouldn’t be the sole reason you’d want to upgrade – there are plenty of other features included with Pro that you might want for your blog.
Payments stream to you based on reading time, at a rate of $0.36 / hour / user.
I’m 100% behind this. Having a way for folks to monetize their blogs and writing is essential and using web standards is the way to go. I hope this catches on more and I will definitely send you my payment pointer to try it out!
Maybe team up with places like Gumroad and Stripe. Would be cool if I could set up a subscription service in say Gumroad and then just freely write in write.as pointing to that subscription target.
Thanks again for setting this up. I’m very excited that write.as is pioneering in this way. I’m seeing many other sites like dev.to and freecodecamp starting to do this as well.
Matt, would exclusive content already work with this?
Hey @salis, the exclusive content side of things won’t work automatically. It would require a little extra logic on Write.as’ end to make this happen. Looking at the code shown, it might actually be possible with the Custom JS.
Hi @salis @cjeller1592 in case you’re interested, I’ve just posted a game development class on my Write.as site that’s only accessible to users with Web Monetization enabled (though I don’t currently check clients against a server, so it would be feasible to trick my code pretty easily).
The Web Monetized class: https://innkeepergames.com/getting-started-in-game-development-develop-strong-video-game-ideas
I’m planning on creating more tutorials and classes accessible via Web Monetization on Write.as.
My code is super messy and based on that tutorial, but I’m happy to share it:
JS:
if (document.getElementById('monetized')) {
if (document.monetization) {
document.getElementById('not-monetized').classList.add('hidden');
document.getElementById('loading').classList.remove('hidden');
document.monetization.addEventListener('monetizationstart', () => {
document.getElementById('monetized').classList.remove('hidden');
document.getElementById('loading').classList.add('hidden');
})
}
}
HTML:
<div id="not-monetized"><div id="lock">🔒</div>Please enable Web Monetization (using <a href="https://coil.com/">Coil</a> or another provider) to view this exclusive content. Thanks for supporting my work!</div>
<div id="loading" class="hidden">Loading your exclusive content. If this step is taking too long, ensure that your Web Monetization provider is active!</div>
<div id="monetized" class="hidden">Success! Thank you for your support. Feel free to reach out with any questions.</div>
I also added some CSS to make it look a little nicer, including a free loader animation.
That’s really cool! Seems to work well too.
FYI, if you’d like to see some example code from the Coil team, you can find some Glitch projects they created here.
Here’s one that shows or hides exclusive content based on whether someone’s a subscriber to a WM service.
This is cool, let me try a step in another direction.
Practical scenario I’m trying to achieve: digital download with fixed price.
(Though this is potentially cutting out anyone with just a credit card and ready to buy it, like it’d be with Stripe, which is not indifferent at all in the real world).
Trying to see if there’s a practical implementation of this.
Hey everyone, just wanted to share a few exciting updates on this!
Web Monetization is now available to everyone on Write.as! Now you’ll see a “Web Monetization” section on your blog’s Customize page, so you can easily add your payment pointer. Anyone who sent us their pointer already will see it appear here, so no extra step is needed.
Web Monetization is coming to WriteFreely, too! We just merged these changes, so admins will be able to offer this to their users in our upcoming v0.13 release (set monetization = true in your [app] config section).
We plan to support exclusive content via Web Monetization (as mentioned by @salis)! We’re working with the folks at Coil on a server-side implementation, so no Javascript trickery will be needed when that’s ready.
As always, would love to hear any other thoughts you have. We’ll keep you updated here as this continues developing!
Great news, thanks for your constant efforts, @matt & @cjeller1592.
Edit: Added small note about WM on one blog I have on write.as—and explaining why I signed up for the 5-years-plan as well: https://sim.show/simshow-now-supports-web-monetization
this is really interesting…
Micropayments to content creators are the future of the internet imho. Have you looked into BAT (Basic Attention Token) associated with the Brave browser? It allows you to tip creators or websites you find useful, etc. You also earn BAT for allowing Brave to show you advertisements as you browse.
Cool stuff.
i have not, but i thin a lot about this kid of stuff. as someone who is fiercely self reliant and efficient to the point of not having people around who aren’t, or in limited capacity of time only-
there will come a point when developers, engineers, thinkers, artists and such like myself force the major app stores to evolve for the good of common sense, extensibility, and true distributed tablet computing without walled gardens. it is only a matter of time before they all realize this and try to re tool anyway and it is already under way. watch microsofts adoption of the linux kernel as a key movement indica imho 18-24 mos ± until we start seeing a position announcement on this from ms/alphabet/and someone else important. and whatever open source but not gnu (nobody in the camp of folks like myself would ever vouch safe such a thing) its non integral…
and then from there the smaller things will move towards being able to run android ports on iOS, etc… and the masses will rejoice.
phase one of this is already under way and matt is among others like the rocket chat folk (its federated, and sure is too complex but the will is there as they coded it so i like them), and a few other people. the developers of darkroom and obscura (obscura guy is way cool have spoken extensively_ ) will be younger develper teams to watch at different demo scales (obscura is one dude- and darkroom is 4 or 7? rocket chat is kinda big but not but not owned by any major schmukatelli yet, so they are interesting to watch…
also, there are people like myself who can design entire functional systems around something and know that it works, but can code it but know what it needs to be coded, LOL minus all the typing. but i can read and understand written code as a functional language, no problem.
so where-ever my head sits is an interesting place as most of my life i have done visual art, music, writing, and spent a lot of time with body work, health facilitation modalities , aether dynamics, and various other legitimate metaphysical pursuits documented through the ages.
point is, it puts me at a very interesting position - and i hope to do some good with what i understand, or in some capacity think i do- about how people work, and what we all more or less need- and use the unifying mechanics o nature to create a new way of doing things, and sell it to the trans humanists, the ecologists, and everyone in between.
and well i have already said too much. drop me a note if you want to contribute or hear more, i don t want to evangelize here, it is not tactful or honorable… // ~me-
name: omar
email: modals@f00.tech
oh, and-
Right now I actually am also working on originating a currency exchange- called ion-x.
it’s a transitional -blended, functional system inter-weaving $, btc, barter and trade platforms i am authoring and own the domains for (see below) , other coin-base, and our own currency as well, for use on the social network i run - mytribes.net (ive branded the in site credits ions) and exchange versus credits swappy thing.
domains for barter trade i have:
youmakestuff.com
yousellstuff.com
willyoutrade.me
willtrade.org
www.lettuce.trade
and like one other one
for the currency exchange itself-
ion-x.io
ion-x.co
ion-x.net
ion-x.online
ion-exchange.club
and like a few other ones.
so this should be fun. drop me a note? or dont. - - - sincerely, Omar . (the slow paced meditative engineer with too many hats, but a great organizational system.)
I will add BAT to my list, and try to get myself to at least read about what brave is doing- because that at minimum is intelligent as a data point- so thank you. 
We’ve officially launched full Web Monetization support! This includes the ability to offer exclusive paid content.
Read more in our announcement post and feel free to discuss here: Monetize Your Writing with Micropayments.
Just scrolled past all that… damn my head was a mess. Sorry about all that.
I am still having a domain auction, but I came back to try and figure out how to remove someone from my team, and apologize about that brain 
frwaaap! above. 
Hi, Matt. I’m very new, coming from Ghost (never got started blogging on Ghost). Write.as is the exact platform I am looking for when it comes to blogging. Now, I’ll probably set up the web monetization for some passive income, if I build an audience of course.
Getting to the point, can I use other forms of monetization besides the one provided? I know this is an old topic, but I figured it’s a better place since it is still open.
It’s not clear to me whether Coil supports only cryptocurrencies and/or also tradtional currencies such as USD and EUR.
Seems to be both? It depends on what wallet you’re using with Coil, since some are more limited than others.
Can I pay someone in shares of (something) or (tradeable metal)? Because it seems like the Uphold wallet supports that.
Thanks, Matt. I hadn’t thought about this kind of monetization. It’s good to know.
I wonder at the same time how many people using Write.as are doing affiliate links to monetize? Thanks!
