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The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later

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Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later

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Post by vnglst »

DanHulton wrote: post #18

I always wondered how he got that site running in the first place. I had my own similar "dumb idea" that I created: http://www.ipaidthemost.com , but I have no idea how to get it out in front of people, even though folks tend to react well enough when I show it to them.

I had a similar "dumb" 1 million dollar idea, but with a emoji money and a Twitter bot called Terence: https://twitter.com/helpterence

Sofar he has raised almost 8000, but I'm also looking for a way to get it out there!

Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later

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Post by huehehue »

gyardley wrote: post #37
seren wrote: post #9

I have been using Headspace and Calm.com. While the services are valuable, I have hard time justifying buying a subscription with a monthly cost for something that is basically some guided meditation mp3. Compare buying a meditation book with a few guided meditation track for 20$, or subscribing to an app with a recurring cost of 70$/year, I don't really see the added value. Can someone shed light on what I am missin…

You're missing just how easy it is to write a quick script that downloads all the content and stores it on your hard drive. Subscribe for a month, write the script in an hour or so, unsubscribe, and you're done. I did this for one of these services and the most annoying thing was correcting the inconsistent names they gave their audio files. You can do this with anything - works great with programming screencasts, fo…

This sounds like stealing

Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later

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Post by levelist_com »

The company I worked for at the time this site gained notoriety would field several calls a week from individuals and companies both wanting to have a clone of that site built thinking they would achieve the same level of success. About the same time I had an investment group contact me, via a close friend, to build them a Match.com clone, except their time frame was 3 months with a budget of $15k. I told them that they lost their damn mind. Didn't hear from them again. People are dumb!

Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later

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Post by GuiA »

vnglst wrote: post #41
DanHulton wrote: post #18

I always wondered how he got that site running in the first place. I had my own similar "dumb idea" that I created: http://www.ipaidthemost.com , but I have no idea how to get it out in front of people, even though folks tend to react well enough when I show it to them.

I had a similar "dumb" 1 million dollar idea, but with a emoji money and a Twitter bot called Terence: https://twitter.com/helpterence Sofar he has raised almost 8000, but I'm also looking for a way to get it out there!

Love silly twitter bots like that. This is adorable!

Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later

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Post by vnglst »

GuiA wrote: post #44
vnglst wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a similar "dumb" 1 million dollar idea, but with a emoji money and a Twitter bot called Terence: https://twitter.com/helpterence Sofar he has raised almost 8000, but I'm also looking for a way to get it out there!

Love silly twitter bots like that. This is adorable!

Thanks, I appreciate it!! They're a lot of fun to create as well, you never know how people are going to interact with them.

And I really hope that some day Terence's campaign really takes off without me really noticing it.

Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later

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Post by coderholic »

bitsoda wrote: post #23
coderholic wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[Disclosure: I'm CTO at Calm] With Calm, there's new content every single day with our Daily Calm meditation. We've got more daily content coming soon too. In addition to the content people also like us for our tracking features and daily reminders, which people consider valuable.

Ironically, the completionist in me would be stressed out knowing there's new content waiting for me everyday. I'd feel compelled to listen to the day's new audio track before it has a chance to pile up over a week, which makes for good business, but would personally stress me out and ruin the whole point of Calm and similar mindfulness services. I'm probably just a weirdo edge case, though :]

You're definitely not a weirdo edge case, I think we all feel something like that around email, facebook notifications etc, and it's something we very consciously want to avoid in our product.

Each Daily Calm session is available for that day only, so you either listen to it or you don't. If you do come back to the app every day there's something fresh for you if that's what you'd like (you can of course to a regular session too). If you don't use the app on any particular day, no big deal, there's no backlog of content for you to stress about catching up with!

Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later

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Post by Diederich »

DanHulton wrote: post #18

I always wondered how he got that site running in the first place. I had my own similar "dumb idea" that I created: http://www.ipaidthemost.com , but I have no idea how to get it out in front of people, even though folks tend to react well enough when I show it to them.

Awesome! (:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140310144412/http://ipaidthemo...

Re: The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later

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Post by DanHulton »

Diederich wrote: post #49
DanHulton wrote: post #18

I always wondered how he got that site running in the first place. I had my own similar "dumb idea" that I created: http://www.ipaidthemost.com , but I have no idea how to get it out in front of people, even though folks tend to react well enough when I show it to them.

Awesome! (: https://web.archive.org/web/20140310144412/http://ipaidthemo...

You can actually link right to the individual entries from the site: http://www.ipaidthemost.com/history/32

(Go to history in the dropdown, then click on the entry in question.)

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