A concept for the Thogden army

THE ORB

Nobody posts. Everybody talks.
And the whole army has one voice.

What it is

A COMMUNITY THAT THINKS

Every football app is the same: a feed of people shouting past each other, and nine out of ten members never post because posting in front of thousands is terrifying.

The Orb takes the posting away. You just talk to it, like texting a mate. It listens to everyone at once, works out what the army actually thinks, and says it out loud for all of you.

Tuesday, nothing on
It's alive

YOU CAN SEE THE MOOD

The Orb glows with whatever the community is feeling. Quiet night and it barely breathes. It's the first thing you check, before you read a single word.

How you talk to it

IT ASKS. YOU ANSWER.

No blank box, no pressure to be clever. It comes to you with a question, and you answer however you like: type it, tap it, or throw an emoji at it.

Two hours to kick off. Honest answer, are we winning tonight?
Yes but only because they can't handle Haaland in the air
That's the fourth time tonight someone's said Haaland. Noted.
Winning itDrawWe're done 🔥😰💀
Ninety minutes before kick off
Every few minutes

THE ORB SPEAKS

It takes everything the army just told it and posts one thing everybody sees. Not a summary. A verdict, an argument, or a question that starts the next one.

The Orb
now

71% of you are backing a win tonight, and nearly all of you said the same word: Haaland. The 29% holding out keep bringing up the away record. Two hours to find out who's right.

✦ You're one of the 71%. Your take is in this one.
♥ 1,204💬 318↗ 96
bins_out_bruno the 29% have clearly never watched him play
nan_lasagna away record is away record lads
The bit people will love

YOU GET THE CREDIT

When three hundred people say the same thing, all three hundred get told they were part of it. You never had to post, you never got shouted down, and you still got to be right in front of the whole army.

Then everyone piles into the comments underneath, likes the good takes, and the Orb reads those too. Every argument makes it smarter.

312 of you said Haaland
BB
NL
KK
UM
DD
GC
MS
XW
BR
TP
JC
RH
+300 more
♥ Like all 312
One tap. Every person in that cluster gets told the army backed their take.
Red card, 61st minute
When it kicks off

YOU'LL FEEL IT BEFORE YOU READ IT

Split decisions tear the Orb apart. It goes red, it churns, and you know the place is at war before a word loads. During a match it reacts in seconds, not minutes.

The Orb
now

You're split down the middle and you're not being nice about it. 52% say it's never a red. The rest of you are typing in capitals. For what it's worth, he'd already been booked.

94th minute
And then this

THE NIGHTS YOU KEEP

The Orb's state is saved forever. This is what the app looked like the night we won it. A screenshot nobody else in football can make, and every one of them has your channel's name on it.

The numbers

YOU NEED 500 PEOPLE

Free to join, so the whole army can talk to the Orb. £5.99 a month for the ones who want unlimited access, a seat in the debates, their face in the clusters, and the full archive.

Here's the part worth sitting with. Out of three million subscribers:

500 members
0.017% of your audience
£3,000/mo
£36k a year
2,000 members
0.07% of your audience
£12,000/mo
£144k a year
5,000 members
0.17% of your audience
£30,000/mo
£359k a year
Membership revenue before app store fees. I take a commission of what the app earns; the rest is yours.

Those aren't projections pulled out of the air. Supwell, a running community app I built on this exact model, has 8,000 members and grosses six figures a year, off a channel a fraction of your size.

Why it's yours

THE BUSINESS END

Your brand, your app store listings, your members, your revenue. Free to join, with a membership tier for the people who live in there.

I build it and I run it. Nothing upfront, ever. I take a cut of what it earns, and if it earns nothing you pay nothing.

And it feeds your channel back. "Before every match I ask the Orb what you lot think" is a segment that writes itself, every single week.

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