Phase 2

Revenue Sources

• Online Communities, user fees:
  • Members: $1/year (nonprofits)
  • Customers: $2/year (for profits)
  • Employees: $10/year (for profits)
  • Discount for >50 members/customers: 75% off
• Unrestricted Mode: $20 (one-time fee)
• Restricted Mode: FREE, pick one of the following
  1. Unichrome: only grayscale or gray mixed with a single primary color allowed
  2. Monospaced: grid of monospaced text fills screen
• Ads (optional):
  • Unrestricted mode apps for everyone
  • Online Communities: FREE
• Aljeboard tutor app:
  • FREE for nonprofits
  • otherwise an unrestricted mode app
• Tutors: $20/year (directory listing, get paid hourly rate by students)
• Web hosting fees paid by developers of resource-hungry apps

Online Communities

• Aljebrist and Aljegroup together form the simplest programming-language/layout-manager duo in existence, yet Aljebrist is almost as powerful as Python (though lacking its extensive libraries).
• Easily customized by adding or modifying Aljebrist and Aljegroup code, or implemented from scratch.
• Members can share posts, comments, images, videos, web links, written material (plain text or formatted with Aljegroup code), music/audio, and custom code.
• Tutors can teach math, coding and web design to the members.
• Web-based interface provided for members who lack smartphones.

Restricted Mode

Aljegrid premium users pay an unlocking fee of $20. Those users have the option of using paid apps, and the ability to run Aljebrist apps in unrestricted mode. Restricted mode can be either unichrome or monospaced. In unichrome mode, all pixels are either in shades of gray or a mixture of zero or more gray and a single theme color. Six theme colors are available: red, green, blue, cyan, yellow, and magenta, but each app can only use one theme color. In monospaced mode, the entire screen consists of a grid of monospaced text, with embedded widgets and images.

Ads

Organizations making use of online communities have the option of displaying ads. Those communities are free: no fees are charged per member/customer/employee. Apps which display ads in unrestricted mode are accessible to all users, and the ad revenue is split evenly between the app authors and Aljegrid.

Tutors

Aljegrid provides a paid app, included with your unlocking fee, used for teaching math and other subjects. Tutors must pay a subscription fee of $20/year (starting after the first year), to be included in the tutor directory and to accept credit card payments from their students. This app is called the Aljeboard (free for the non-profit organizations).

Web Users

For those members of non-profit organizations who lack smartphones, a web-based interface will be provided. A conversion utility will be used to convert Aljegroup and Aljebrist code into HTML and JavaScript, respectively.

Google's Cut

Both Google and Apple take a 30 percent cut of in-app purchases, which usually drops to 15 percent after the first year. The Aljebrist Run-Time System (ARTS) is just another Android/iOS app, so all payments from users are subject to the 30 percent commission to Google and Apple. Web hosting fees are charged by Google, so developers of resource-hungry apps pay extra.

Exit Strategy

In case neither the online communities, tutoring software, nor Aljebrist app store are profitable, the Java (and Swift) source code of the ARTS will be released on GitHub. This can be used to create standalone Android and iOS mobile apps by bundling the ARTS with the Aljebrist/Aljegroup source code of each app in the Aljebrist app store.