While I'm not one to suggest monetizing something that benefits a community I think you could reasonably monetize this by providing CaaS (ha! Coloring as a Service).
You could have weekly or monthly pdfs of generations emailed for particular themes like kids' school mascots, religious subjects like for Sunday school, curriculum subject correlating theme, etc.
Additionally, I would have it hide a signature somewhere in case someone starts scraping images and commercially selling them, or additionally license them to be able scrape them using Cloudflare.
Oh! Another idea, have the uploading themes be a paid feature. I would consider site licensing for orgs. So if a school system wants to make it available to all teachers, they can pay a flat fee.
There's an incredible amount of potential with this! I'm jealous I didn't think of it!
Great suggestions! I love the B2B angle - weekly themed PDFs for schools/organizations is something I hadn't fully considered.
For now keeping it free to build user base, but definitely thinking about premium tiers for:
- Custom theme uploads
- Organization licensing
- Curriculum-specific content
The Cloudflare crawl protection is a good call too. Already using R2, so makes sense to add that layer.
Thanks for the thoughtful ideas - this is exactly why I posted here!
While I'm not one to suggest monetizing something that benefits a community I think you could reasonably monetize this by providing CaaS (ha! Coloring as a Service).
You could have weekly or monthly pdfs of generations emailed for particular themes like kids' school mascots, religious subjects like for Sunday school, curriculum subject correlating theme, etc.
Additionally, I would have it hide a signature somewhere in case someone starts scraping images and commercially selling them, or additionally license them to be able scrape them using Cloudflare.