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#132

Am I supposed to be impressed? This makes no sense whatsoever. The reminds me of that card game that raised money to dig a hole.

It's entertaining. It doesn't need to make sense. If you want a sane product with a good business model, well, there's more than enough of that flying around.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

#133
post #6

Are you able to process payments as low as 1c and if so, aren't fees exceeding the amount charged?

What if he waits to collect your payments until they reach a point where fees aren't exceeding them anymore?

Stripe allows you to do that?

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

#134
post #3

Hi all. About 2.5 years ago I created Highscore Money. I was looking at pay-to-play games and wondered what would happen if you'd take it to the extreme. The result was just a leaderboard you'd pay your way into. Whatever you pay, that's your score. Today, I'm launching a new social experiment. A chatroom where you pay for every message you send. Normally chatrooms can get messy quick, because there's no cost to send…

Front-page of HN and its not working. No-one has said anything for 90 mins. I tried to chat, signed up, nothing happened.

Now it seems to be working for other people, but not for me. Perhaps because I'm not in the USA.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

#135
post #43

I just broke this website sending this: " sending unicode characters for fun "

where did you find those characters?

Try this: https://beautifuldingbats.com/hey-howd-you-do-that/

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

#138
post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you shaming HN users for trying to monetize something?

That question is comparable to the type of question which is often used in politics to silence opponents. In that sense it should be against HN rules, as to whether it is I don't know. As far as I'm concerned he just asked a question which can be answered without the need for 'defenders' to show up and challenge the questioner - and with that stifle the discourse here.

The same logic applies to the question you're replying to. Were it me that was asked the question, I'd simply say "no, I was just curious."

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

#140
post #43

I just broke this website sending this: " sending unicode characters for fun "

where did you find those characters?

https://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=sending+unicode+character...
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