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Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Reminds 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.

Same here. Fortunately I've searched for "pixel" before making a redundant comment :^)

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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post #53
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes this a social experiment rather than a simple cash grab? Are you donating all the money to a charity?

Are you shaming HN users for trying to monetize something?

They are shaming them for using the "social experiment" label.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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post #25

Reminds 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

wow ... I just spotted ling's cars! Besides 'The Times', I've not spotted anything which I recognise on there. And I'm kinda surprised there aren't more porn adverts, to be honest.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

#64

Reminds 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.

Something like that is still up, albeit with a cryptocurrency: http://iota.show

I know, it is not exactly identical to what you are saying, but this is what came to mind, and the idea is very similar, if not the same.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Business idea: corporate email system that offers a limited amount of emails per month, and once the limit gets hit, discounts money from employee's salary.

Add a formula that makes it exponentially more expensive if you add more people to CC.

Problem with corporate mailing hell solved.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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post #65

Business idea: corporate email system that offers a limited amount of emails per month, and once the limit gets hit, discounts money from employee's salary. Add a formula that makes it exponentially more expensive if you add more people to CC. Problem with corporate mailing hell solved.

That would just mean employees would make every email like 1,000 words long

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

#67

It reminds me of writing SMS messages - using all the awful txt spk to use as few characters as possible and save money.

Not just to save space. Typing with T9 was much more time-consuming that our autocomplete touch keyboards.

But it could be done without looking. Driving home, reach for phone in the other seat, unlock, go to your contact (you remember the phonebook position of your frequent contacts), choose send sms, type the message fairly quickly, send. This could all be done fast and reliable without one look, perhaps one last glance before sending to make sure it looks right.

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post #65

Business idea: corporate email system that offers a limited amount of emails per month, and once the limit gets hit, discounts money from employee's salary. Add a formula that makes it exponentially more expensive if you add more people to CC. Problem with corporate mailing hell solved.

This would result in incessant phone calls.

That's purely hypothetical, of course, because no one would take a job at that company.

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