The Nimbus Factory is intended to become a simple
platform for digital content creators to be able to sell their digital assets
on the web.
The attraction of the platform is its simplicity as all
that an author needs to start monetizing his knowledge by creating digital
assets are the following
- A
landing page that can provide a brief overview of the digital product with
text, images or video.
- A
link to a payment gateway URL for the product (that can be set up as a
Payment Page in say RazorPay).
- A
link for the payment gateway to redirect after the payment is confirmed to
provide a Thank You page followed by an ability to download the content.
Points (a) and (b) can very well be done using tools
like WordPress, Joomla etc, but then as a content creator you will have to go
through all the following hassles
- Buying
a Domain and a Webhosting Account that comes with WordPress and Joomla etc
bundled
- Processing
an information overload of 1000s of templates that hardly fit your simple
need of a landing page and a thank you / download page.
Our landing pages are kept very simple mainly because it
is most probably going to be seen only by visitors to our site who get to know
such a site exists only after they buy a digital asset and reach our Thank You
page and then start browsing it for what other content may be available.
Typically, your landing page will be built in powerful
platforms like Facebook which basically needs an underlying page to even start
promoting it through their Ad program. Ideally the link you will be providing
there is the payment gateway URL that directly takes them to your monetization
effort and all you need is a redirection page that allows an instant download
of the content (in a secure manner).
Even when the content id is revealed in the return page URL
of your digital asset, it cannot be book marked and shared freely because we will
check if the HTTP Referrer for the page load is your payment gateway.
Hence that URL will work as a download URL only once and
after that it can only be used to record and view review comments on that
digital asset or share it as a sales pitch page with the Buy Now link pointing
to its payment gateway URL.
So we as a service are more interested in being a replacement
to the complex world of WordPress, Joomla etc which solves a more generic
problem but does not address a simple niche that is needed by digital content
creators who cannot navigate through the information overload to realize their simple
need.
We are currently in the phase of gathering the interest
of our site visitors on whether they are willing to be part of our platform as
digital content creators and / or digital content consumers, so that we can
build a target list of user base who consciously agree to being marketed to if
a new digital asset is published on our platform.
Based on the responses we will be deciding on the depths
of features to offer as we keep iteratively improving this platform.
If this excites you, you can sign up to our mailing list
and hope to hear from us in the up coming days or months.
Cheers,
The Nimbus Factory