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Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Post by swombat »

mahmud wrote: post #62

Zack, I am a fan, but your recent rash of "sites" is worrisome. You launched: HipHopGoblin ( When do you even have time to improve, even promote, projects if you're tossing them on a weekly basis? It takes time to make anything monetizable, at least you need to create it first. I think you're just an small sample of a generation of people who are coming to see businesses as just "idea + landing page". Sell, then buil…

I know a few people who have made significant amounts of money online, and the "throw lots of things at the wall and see what sticks" definitely works.

Zack: keep at it!

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

#82

Post by notahacker »

icode wrote: post #76
mahmud wrote: post #62

Zack, I am a fan, but your recent rash of "sites" is worrisome. You launched: HipHopGoblin ( When do you even have time to improve, even promote, projects if you're tossing them on a weekly basis? It takes time to make anything monetizable, at least you need to create it first. I think you're just an small sample of a generation of people who are coming to see businesses as just "idea + landing page". Sell, then buil…

> Slow down, for your own sake I wonder why this has gotten 28 points. WHY should he slow down? I have done many many things myself and some have become very profitable. From my experience, the fastest route to success is to do what you like. If this guy likes to start a new startup every week then he should go for it. If someone likes to do one thing for 50 years he should go for that. Neither of them would be wrong…

Starting and testing new ideas on a regular basis is all well and good until the quality starts to suffer. CompassionPit looked much better and the concept sounded less like it was conceived by the Onion

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

#83

Post by MisterWebz »

This would be a lot better if it was some sort of gift app. You pay someone to call your friend and the caller tells your friend that thinks you're a really great friend and an awesome person.

This has its downsides as well but, in my opinion, it's a lot better than some kind of self help service which might make people feel even worse.

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Post by zackattack »

notahacker wrote: post #82
icode wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Slow down, for your own sake I wonder why this has gotten 28 points. WHY should he slow down? I have done many many things myself and some have become very profitable. From my experience, the fastest route to success is to do what you like. If this guy likes to start a new startup every week then he should go for it. If someone likes to do one thing for 50 years he should go for that. Neither of them would be wrong…

Starting and testing new ideas on a regular basis is all well and good until the quality starts to suffer. CompassionPit looked much better and the concept sounded less like it was conceived by the Onion

CompassionPit has done $0 in revenue this has done $100. Karma value of CompassionPit likely higher.

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

#85

Post by mkr-hn »

swombat wrote: post #81
mahmud wrote: post #62

Zack, I am a fan, but your recent rash of "sites" is worrisome. You launched: HipHopGoblin ( When do you even have time to improve, even promote, projects if you're tossing them on a weekly basis? It takes time to make anything monetizable, at least you need to create it first. I think you're just an small sample of a generation of people who are coming to see businesses as just "idea + landing page". Sell, then buil…

I know a few people who have made significant amounts of money online, and the "throw lots of things at the wall and see what sticks" definitely works. Zack: keep at it!

This is what I'm planning to do, though maybe not so many at once, and I'll have one solid focus at a time with only a couple of side projects.

Like any idea or methodology, it can be good in moderation, and with adequate thought. Too much or too carelessly can lead to problems.

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Post by maukdaddy »

philk wrote: post #37

I might be missing the point here but paying someone to tell me I'm awesome would make me feel rather sad. Of course, that may not extend to everyone. I imagine a reasonable portion of the self help community would embrace this sort of thing.

You are awesome philk!

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

#88

Post by ulf »

ams6110 wrote: post #20

If this takes off, how long before the "you suck" phone call service is launched?

Much bigger potential, since the awesome site has basically at most 7Bn users which would use once it for themselves.

The "You suck" version on the other hand has 7Bn potential users, each of which would probably be able to use the service for n other people (n > 1)

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Post by anon_4_a_reason »

zackattack wrote: post #84
notahacker wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Starting and testing new ideas on a regular basis is all well and good until the quality starts to suffer. CompassionPit looked much better and the concept sounded less like it was conceived by the Onion

CompassionPit has done $0 in revenue this has done $100. Karma value of CompassionPit likely higher.

I wonder how much in total did you make off of your experiments? The micro-idea/implementation model is very interesting by the way.
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