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Show HN: Please Review Our Project "1 Million Valentines"

#1
For fun this Valentine's Day, a couple buddies and I decided to play around with the idea of digital Valentines. We cranked out the project in the month of January as a "nights & weekends" project.

We'd love any feedback in general! Our next step is to figure a way to seed this in key communities, to see if it has any chance of taking off.

The URL is www.1millionvalentines.com (or www.1MVS.com).

Thanks!

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#4

Who would rent a valentine's pixel which will need to be scrolled x time to be seen? Please, would even you really buy it for 10 dollars/pix?

Good questions / concerns. Yup scrolling works, but as well, if one shares a specific Valentine, then it will appear auto-popped / enlarged.

As for the value, the thinking is this is a public showing of one's affection, and real estate is limited / disappearing.

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What are you doing with the money? Is this a charity?

No plans currently. Do you think that would help with someone buying a digital Valentines? Please lemme know if you have any suggestions of relevant charities!

You could pick something topical, maybe heart disease or eliminating conflict diamonds :)

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post #3

What are you doing with the money? Is this a charity?

No plans currently. Do you think that would help with someone buying a digital Valentines? Please lemme know if you have any suggestions of relevant charities!

You want people to pay $10 for nothing in return. Usually that sort of thing is reserved for charities. I wouldn't buy one of these just to line your pockets. I would buy one to support a cause I believe in assuming enough of the money went to said cause.

I feel like the fact that '1 million' is in your name says a lot about why you did this.

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No plans currently. Do you think that would help with someone buying a digital Valentines? Please lemme know if you have any suggestions of relevant charities!

You want people to pay $10 for nothing in return. Usually that sort of thing is reserved for charities. I wouldn't buy one of these just to line your pockets. I would buy one to support a cause I believe in assuming enough of the money went to said cause. I feel like the fact that '1 million' is in your name says a lot about why you did this.

Thanks for the feedback! And yup, we're being up front with it all (re: name, etc.). Seems like charity path might be the best way to try something like this (and do some good in the world).

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#9
I feel like the milliondollarhomepage.com thing can only work once. There were a million knockoffs (exaggeration and pun intended) that didn't work out at the time. Even the original creator's next attempt failed if I remember correctly.

I would say it's possible for it to work again but you would need a lot of luck

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No plans currently. Do you think that would help with someone buying a digital Valentines? Please lemme know if you have any suggestions of relevant charities!

You could pick something topical, maybe heart disease or eliminating conflict diamonds :)

Clever. I like that. Heart Disease seems especially applicable. Thanks!
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