Examples: Social Networks, VPN clients, and online video games.
Meaningful SAPOs can create a completely different kind of WEB.
A truly unlimited for any creator.
How it works:
1. Create an NFT collection & publish the main SAPO NFT with links to where the app will be delivered. Describe your project in the NFT or/and in its description.
Guarantee the time of the app operations.
Also, you can guarantee the time of new feature releases.
Can look like this: The app will be operational for up to 1,000,000 active users during 10 years.
New features will be released once per quarter for 3 years.
2. Sell enough tokens.
3. Publish your app.
You know...
I created a separate kind of SCPO for apps with cloud connection for a reason.
These have one super-power:
Usual content like movies, open-source code, and video games can have demo versions that prove the value of an SCPO.
But an app...
Can have a fully working Minimum Viable core product available to everyone while being protected behind closed-code.
Creators open-source the code only...
After enough tokens are sold:)
How to make SAPOs unlimited?
1) Make costly computations local.
That's how any app can have millions of users while spending almost nothing on servers.
Photopea - a free alternative to Photoshop having millions of monthly active users while spending 50-100$ per year on hosting.
2) Allow users to run your apps in offline mode.
For functions that can run offline.
Of course:)
Can be a client for Large Language Models or an Antivirus.
This will give a pretty long life to your software.
How can cloud cloud-heavy apps like VPN & Cloud gaming Providers be saved from bots and not limiting possible network effects?
They can use palm scanning providers to verify individual living humans.
It's quite private & easy:)
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/palm-payment-visa-contactless-tencent-4813601
How can SAPOs be financially sustainable in the long term after the guaranteed time is over?
Royalties.
NFT Tokens of Popular apps with millions or dozens of millions of active users can easily have a trading volume of 1$ billion per year.
With 5% of royalties - app developers would get 50 million $ of new funding per year.
I suppose token holders will be motivated to pay the royalties to continue the app's work.