Modular Decentralisation

At DBN we have invented a new way to collaborate with our talented and ambitious community of creators. Creating great products and great business concepts is more of an art than a science, which means that we at Divide By None are never going to be capable of making everyone happy with the software that we build. But there is a simple solution to that: we help you to compete with us… sort of.

(The following is completely optional and we suspect that most of our users will prefer to create their own original software/content rather than to make improvements to DBN's software)

The way it works is this:

1. We build a platform, for example Juxtify.com and its sister site Juxtify.Studio where you can create and publish original video games
2. You appreciate this platform but one particular feature of this platform frustrates you terribly and you can’t understand why our founder would make such a dumb design decision. But you don’t have enough time or money to create a competing platform.
3. No problem! You sign up to join our Juxtapus Venture Co-operative (“JVC”) platform which allows you to use all of our developer/content-creator platforms (for example Juxtify.Studio, Simbio.Studio, Pseudo Git and AudioGames) with no further subscription fees—so long as you are an independent developer/creator and not working on behalf of a major corporation. Now you can use our Pseudo Git platform to change that mediocre feature in whatever way you think is best.

Perhaps you can do this by yourself. But if not, you might find some collaborators on the JVC platform, or amongst your own friends or family. So long as you and your team agree to operate as a partnership in accordance with the terms of the JVC platform, rather than as a company, we will allow your team to take a percentage of the total profits that we earn from every user who uses your Module within the most recent monthly accounting period. The exact percentage that you can earn can be up to 70% of the profit brought in by each such customer and the precise percentage is determined by a complex calculation. In the near future, we will provide a precise and transparent explanation of this calculation. But here is a simplified explanation:

1. Lets say, hypothetically, that we earned a total amount of $120 from delivering software-based products and services to an arbitrary customer for the previous month, and this customer made use of one Module created by you within that month.
2. And lets say that our accountants determined that our costs of delivering software-based products and services to that customer—including paying our staff—were $20 for that month. That leaves $100 of profit for that customer, but we cannot take all of that profit it because we realise that the only reason we are able to hire so few people and have such high profit margins is because we can rely on your Module to make us look good. You would be entitled to up to 70% of that $100, which is a maximum of $70. Now, with that knowledge in mind, we can determine how much of that $70 we would owe you.
3. The first question is: how many other Modules from other JVC teams has the customer used within that same month? Clearly we can’t give all of the profit to you, if other teams have also contributed Modules that this user has used.
4. The second question is: was your Module exclusively used, or did the customer also use either our built-in Module or some other team’s Module (to replace the same built-in feature that your Module replaces) for part of the month? And if your Module was not exclusively used, what was the percentage of usage?
5. The fourth question is: how many of our built-in features did the customer replace with Modules in the past month? If the customer replaced 50% of our built-in features with Modules such as yours, then you and all the other modules will split that 50% of the $70, which means that you will get a share out of $35. So if the customer used a total of five modules, you will receive up to $7, which is $35 divided by 5.
6. The fifth question is: how original is your module? We use advanced AI to compare your Module to others that already exist—-regardless of how popular they are. If you create something that is determined to have X% excessive similarity to another JVC team’s Module or to our (DBN) team’s built-in feature then X% of your earnings will be paid to the original team/s. Our analysis algorithms will always be a work in progress and we reserve the right to improve this algorithm over time so that people are not able to game our system in a way that hurts other teams.