[Zagill]

It's a very poorly conceived pyramid scheme if so, since it's limited to 99 people and the revenue share only goes one referral deep

[throwaway290]

> the revenue share only goes one referral deep

"25% of the persons recurring revenue" must be all the referrals of that referral and all the way down.

I don't like it because it introduces difficult to understand incentives that may be different than "make good product" and difficult to understand.

Maybe the most obvious wrong incentive is "make product that is easy to get your friends to start and keep using". A product like that would benefit from network effects and social contagion and no interoperation with other products, and build features correspondingly. (cf Facebook)

[culi]

I didn't paste the rest of it:

  Paying users 100-999 are "Early Grugs."
  Same deal, at 20%

  Paying users 1000-9999 will be "Grug 'Ohana."
  Same deal, at 15%