Since the HN community does not necessarily represent the target market for the ideas you mentioned (except, maybe the Business Naming app), you won't get usable data by polling the wrong audience. If you're interested in generating income for your effort, you'll need to know how to sell the product — and to whom — to help inform what to build.
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't go as far as calling @amyhoy, @alexknowshtml and @thomasfuchs scammers Regarding "only actually familiar with selling online scams" – they don't live of www.30x500.com but of http://letsfreckle.com/
https://30x500.com/ looks exactly like every other internet marketing "learn to make money online with our amazing course" that's circulated for the past 15 years. I guess "scam" is a bit hasty but "utter waste of your money" is definitely fitting. There's gotta be an official name for these. That skinny page with varying font sizes of text images or embedded youtube videos encouraging you to buy/ act now / sign-up f…
>>There's gotta be an official name for these. That skinny page with varying font sizes of text images or embedded youtube videos encouraging you to buy/ act now / sign-up for their free newsletter til a big call-to-action at the bottom after scrolling for 10 minutes?
There is; long copy sales letters
Re: Ask HN: What to work on?
#53Have you considered identifying one target market first, then working backwards? If you identify one group of humans (with healthy budgets!) that you want to serve, every discarded prototype for that market will surface new knowledge of what they need. Re: naming, http://namevine.com asks for current registrar and may be earning affiliate revenue.
I'm the dev behind Namevine. It makes a little bit of side income for me via affiliate revenue. That initial popup is an attempt to help me prioritize which affiliate integrations to pursue next and of course helps ensure users are sent to register at a registrar they'd likely purchase at.