Nice :) We were just talking about something like this several days ago:
Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter
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#32Reminds me of that 1000x1000 ad site from the 90's where you could buy an ad based on how many pixels you purchased. Allow someone to pay to set the chat room topic, the colour scheme, etc. Maybe some Rich instagram kids will throw some cash at it for bragging rights.
The founder of that, Alex Tew, is still around and doing things.
Last I saw, he was running the 'Calm' app.
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#33Hi 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…
What makes this a social experiment rather than a simple cash grab? Are you donating all the money to a charity?
son, i have to explain you a couple of things about capitalism... ;)
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#34It looks like you're using stripe to process your payments. Does this mean that if I send a 1-character message it will cost you money?
I have the same feeling. With only 300 bucks we can make this guy lose 10K :D ( $10.000 / ( 0.3 + ( 0.029 * 0.01$ ) ) * 0.01 = $333,01 We would need a javascript script that would make 33301 payments of 1 cent. This would be a very cost efficient attack between business rivals.
Are you a business rival to Expensive Chat?
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#35It looks like you're using stripe to process your payments. Does this mean that if I send a 1-character message it will cost you money?
In our Stripe integration, you're unable to process a payment that is less than the transaction fee. The minimum is around 33 cents.
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#36This could make for an interesting idea for 'Quora for mentors', whereby someone pays money (maybe more than 1c) to ask a specific question to a 'business leader'.
I'm fairly sure that has been tried before a few times. Is it really needed though? Stack exchange is fairly good for free.
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#37Reminds me of that 1000x1000 ad site from the 90's where you could buy an ad based on how many pixels you purchased. Allow someone to pay to set the chat room topic, the colour scheme, etc. Maybe some Rich instagram kids will throw some cash at it for bragging rights.
The page is still up :-) http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
The ads also still get traffic, A while back I wrote a script to list all the domains that had expired and bought one at random for shits and giggles. GA reported about 100 uniques per month.
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#38Reminds me of that 1000x1000 ad site from the 90's where you could buy an ad based on how many pixels you purchased. Allow someone to pay to set the chat room topic, the colour scheme, etc. Maybe some Rich instagram kids will throw some cash at it for bragging rights.
The founder of that, Alex Tew, is still around and doing things. Last I saw, he was running the 'Calm' app.
Did not know Calm was built by him. Thanks for the info.
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#39The implementation is clean AF and the idea is super fun! Really neat job there! This probably won't take off as-is but I feel like there's untapped potential to be leveraged.
Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter
#40The implementation is clean AF and the idea is super fun! Really neat job there! This probably won't take off as-is but I feel like there's untapped potential to be leveraged.
The creator is the same guy that made wip.chat & betalist. I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps building on it and it succeeds.