You're doing a great job thinking it all through, and I love the maps!

I'm fortunate enough to earn (just) enough through my main blog selling digital resources without the need for Patron or Kickstarter - and since you can set up subscriptions on PayPal it's kind of made the former a bit pointless for me!

There are so many synergies possible between Hive and the wider net world I agree, if people limit themselves to just Hive it's a real flaw.

In my head I've got an 'I'll pay you to study' idea that wants to emerge - it's just the whole working with kids thing that's making it not very appealing - you know how bat shit crazy people are over child safety!