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Re: Ask HN: What to do with this meme?

#21
1. Quickly send an email to the Top 20 writing sites out there. And make them an offer: they could get a white label version of your script to be on their URL with their logo for a fee. Strike while the iron is hot.

2. On the results page, quickly create a form that asks for peoples email id. And then publish a newsletter that helps folks become better writers. Capturing email ids also give you a big base of folks with whom you can share your future apps with. Faster seeding.

Re: Ask HN: What to do with this meme?

#22

Many of my FB friends are writers, this thing has spread like wildfire through them today. But the thing is it's a flash in the pan effect. It'll do huge for a very short period of time with no revisits. If you monetize, do it RIGHT NOW. Tomorrow is too late. Almost literally.

>FB friends are writers

It may be a good idea to turn this into a Facebook app. That way you have a user base to experiment with later, as well as, some further advertisement.

Re: Ask HN: What to do with this meme?

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How about then giving the user a list of works by that author via amazon? If the users really do want to read more of that writer's stuff, this might be a good way to get some affiliate business. You could possibly even point to specific works that they "write like". You might also take a look at the goodreads api ( http://www.goodreads.com/api ) for some possible social networking aspects? Maybe you could show peopl…

I thought about Amazon affiliate program, but I'm outside the US, and it's a huge hassle to deal with checks here. Thanks for suggestions!

Check skimlinks, they can pay you via PayPal, too.

Re: Ask HN: What to do with this meme?

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I presume you mean cheques of money sent you from Amazon? If it's too much hassle to cash potentially huge affiliate checks then you're rich enough, give the site to someone else that wants more money. Seriously FB has 400Million active uniques. If you capture one-hundreth of a percent of those and then of those 1% convert and you make $1 on each conversion that's $400. Even if it took me a whole day to organise cash…

I'm in a new country (Montenegro), haven't got residence permit here yet, don't have a permanent address, and don't speak the local language to figure out how to cash checks. Anyway, I've added Amazon affiliate links now, maybe I'll cash out with gift certificates.

Can anybody confirm it's possible to join Amazon Associates outside "Amazon" countries? (US/UK/FR/DE/JP/CA)

Spent 5 minutes on Googling but didn't find the information.

Re: Ask HN: What to do with this meme?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in a new country (Montenegro), haven't got residence permit here yet, don't have a permanent address, and don't speak the local language to figure out how to cash checks. Anyway, I've added Amazon affiliate links now, maybe I'll cash out with gift certificates.

Can anybody confirm it's possible to join Amazon Associates outside "Amazon" countries? (US/UK/FR/DE/JP/CA) Spent 5 minutes on Googling but didn't find the information.

Yes, it's possible. Just sign up here http://affiliate-program.amazon.com/join/getstarted

Re: Ask HN: What to do with this meme?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought about Amazon affiliate program, but I'm outside the US, and it's a huge hassle to deal with checks here. Thanks for suggestions!

Check skimlinks, they can pay you via PayPal, too.

PayPal is also not an option here :/ But I have a workaround for this, so I will check it out.

Re: Ask HN: What to do with this meme?

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Many of my FB friends are writers, this thing has spread like wildfire through them today. But the thing is it's a flash in the pan effect. It'll do huge for a very short period of time with no revisits. If you monetize, do it RIGHT NOW. Tomorrow is too late. Almost literally.

I agree, just like almost every meme, it's short-lived.

A lot of the memes on the web are short-lived, however there's nothing about memes that makes them inherently short-lived. Some memes live extremely long.

Re: Ask HN: What to do with this meme?

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Depending on which paragraph within the same blog post I checked I write like Margret Atwood, Mark Twain or Isaac Asimov. By removing the last sentence from my Asimov-like paragraph: H.P. Lovecraft. Removing another sentence I write like Edgar Allan Poe.

I'm not sure what this tells me about my writing, but it does stroke my ego. Sometimes that's just what a writer needs.

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