for say 100 - 1000 HBD a user could start a football community

I would build that myself but I just can't see people paying anything. The code for hive.blog is out there to use but there are a bunch of things I don't like with it, some of which they are apparently planning to work on.

For what its worth, I have a lightweight front end to Hive I am working on this weekend that uses NextJS so it is really fast. I will be writing up how I built it as a tutorial series.