- Sister tool of Jophrium
- All freemium websites coded in Java, JavaScript and HTML
- Assume that a given freemium website is called "mysite"
- Domain name: mysite.jophr.net
- Sample open source freemium websites:
- jpic.jophr.net: organize/share image folders
- jteach.jophr.net: links tutors with students
- jboard.jophr.net: make your own 2-player board games
- Subscribers pay $20/year (gold) or $12.50/year (silver)
- Silver members can only join at most 2 freemium websites at once, and can only switch websites once a week
- Gold members are members of all freemium websites
- Calculation of website resources consumed:
- Let W = (no. of image file megabytes served) x (no. of tokens in Java source code)
- Comments and the following chars. ignored: ( ) { } [ ] ;
- Constants: numeric, string, character count as one token
- Summed up for all users of a given website in one month
- Let H = cost of web hosting
- Websites where W is less than twice the median M are free: H = 0
- H = for W between 2 and 4 times M = $10/mo.
- W between 4 and 8 times M = $15/mo.
- W between 8 and 16 times M = $25/mo.
- W between 16 and 32 times M = $40/mo.
- W greater than 32,768 times M = $300/mo.
- W greater than 100,000 times M: website speed is throttled
- Every paying website gets a rebate (part of subscription fee revenue = F) proportionate to HR where R = A / B and A is less than or equal to B
- All rebates add up to F
- A = W for non-members only and
- B = W for members only or vice versa
- Allow financial transactions between developers and end-users using credit cards/PayPal
- Don't charge transaction fees
- No freemium website is allowed to directly compete with any of the 3 sample websites
- Transaction disputes (cheating):
- Developer accused of cheating by 3 or more unique users in 90 days or less
- User accused of cheating by 2 or more unique developers in 180 days or less
- User/developer gets F rating for 2 years (allowed to appeal)
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