Cooporhood.com is a generalized version of Psyberhood. Each Cooporgroop brings together a corresponding subset of the population. Subsets include truck drivers, dentists, social workers, immigrants, ex-convicts, etc. Members of every Cooporgroop get together in coffee shops and share social media posts. Members who choose to become Patrons donate between 5 and 20 percent of their orders to nonprofits, on top of the 5 percent which all members pay. Moderators do not scan every post. Members click on the octagon icon with an exclamation point inside it to report problem posts to the moderators (other problem posts are detected using machine learning). Posts can be public or friends-only, and some Cooporgroops are private: posts only visible to members. Organizations which require private Cooporgroops pay extra fees (registered charities are exempted). Members who don't make use of get-togethers for a single calendar month or more are exposed to ads, until they finally make use of a get-together. Premium users, who pay $10/year, can browse public Cooporgroops. Basic users, who pay no subscription fees, can also browse public Cooporgroops if they spent at least $2 in the previous calendar month.
Population Subsets
Every Cooporgroop is defined by a given category, or 2 or more categories combined with boolean operators (and, or, not). Categories are organized in a tree of arbitrary depth. Any given category can appear in more than one place in the category tree. What follows is a list of top-level categories and an assortment of their immediate sub-categories:
- Business (Occupation, Industry, Companies, Public Sector)
- Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology)
- Humanities (Philosophy, History, Political Science, Linguistics)
- Education (Graduate Level, Undergraduate, Secondary, Primary, Schools)
- Mathematics (Algebra, Calculus, Geometry, Arithmetic)
- Information Technology (Languages, Platforms, Hardware, Software Genres, Companies)
- Art (Literature, Visual, Music, Theatre, Movies & Television)
- Sports (Baseball, Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer)
- Nonprofit (Populations, Organizations, Jobs)
- Health (Job Types, Disorders)
- Geography (Countries, Regions, Cities, Neighborhoods, Languages, Races)
- Religion (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism)
Psybergiving
Psybergiving is a feature of Cooporhood meant to raise money for the nonprofit sector. Members who choose to become Patrons donate between 5 and 20 percent of their orders to specific nonprofit organizations (who have their own Cooporgroops) or those organizations which serve specific populations, on top of the 5 percent which all members pay. This is a powerful feature of Cooporhood, which along with the face-to-face contact make it superior to Facebook. Plus members don't see ads, unless they skip the get-togethers for a single calendar month or more.
Customization and Communities
Cooporgroops can be customized by the Cooporgroop leaders using a new programming language called Cooperscript and a text markup language called Coopertags. The 2 built-in communities are Psyberhood and Cooporhood. Other, alternative communities make use of the Cooporhood social network graph: a network of Cooporhood users. All communities except Psyberhood are implemented using Cooperscript and Coopertags. Cooporhood.com receives 15 percent of revenue earned by the alternative communities.
Blogs
Blogs are free for all users, except blogs which make use of server-side Javascript code (automatically converted from Cooperscript). Blog posts and comments can contain Coopertags code, as well as client-side Cooperscript code, not just plain text. Only premium users can submit blog posts which make use of server-side code.
Private Cooporgroops
Private Cooporgroops differ from public Cooporgroops in that posts are only visible to Cooporgroop members. Organizations which need private Cooporgroops pay 10 percent of the coffee shop order amounts instead of 5 percent, splitting these private Cooporgroop fees with their members 50-50 if desired. Registered charities are exempt from paying the private Cooporgroop fees.
Profitability
Assume that Cooporhood employs 3 moderators who each screen about 1050 posts/week and each make $600/week. Each moderator spends 2 minutes screening each post, 30 posts/hour, 1050 posts/week based on 35 hour week (say 1000 posts/week to use a round figure), and the moderators earn $17.14/hour. Assume each member posts once per week, and moderators screen every post. Then ratio of members to moderators is 1000:1. Assume each member goes on one outing per week, spending $2 per outing. Then weekly revenue per member is $0.10. Assume moderators only screen 2 percent of posts. Machine learning and members flagging problem posts makes this possible. Then ratio of members to moderators is 50,000:1.
The number of members is 150,000, so weekly revenue is $15,000. Assume 3 full time employees exist (Mike does not draw a salary, unlike the other co-founder, the iOS programmer, and one other employee). They are each paid $25/hour, or $1000/week. Weekly wages are $1800 for the moderators plus $3000 equals $4800. After paying wages, the amount left over to pay expenses is $10,200/week or $530,000/year.