250k rickrolled. That is hilarious. Wish I checked the site during that period.
Inside a viral website
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#92Instead of wasting time with NFT you should have contacted Flexport for a partnership
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#93One thing I don't understand about monetizing on the Internet. I see the author considered ads, tried an affiliate scheme and even did an NFT. But what about plain old, honest to God payment? Couldn't they just put a paragraph of text on the site, "Hey folks, I'm worried about hosting costs, if you find this page useful, please [Donate]", with a button redirecting to Paypal or Stripe or whatever, collect the money an…
> Couldn't they just [...] :D
Yes :). But otherwise, the question is serious.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And then said browser extension, which promised to never ever sell your data to a third party, got bought out by PayPal for 4 billion USD. I guess selling the whole company owning the data isn't technically selling data to third parties...
Check out any privacy policy that says they will never share or sell your data; the two boilerplate exceptions are law enforcement and transfering ownership of the parent entity. Two pretty big loopholes.
Uhh those seem like two really small loopholes. Buying the whole company makes sense. What is the alternative, the purchasing company has to accept that they'll purge all user accounts?
Law enforcement.. What do you want them to do? Turn down a legal court order and say "naaa"?
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#95The main takeaway for me: > In my day job, we use Next.js for almost everything we build. It’s a framework built on top of React that just strips out almost all the complexity of building fairly complicated websites. Obviously, this wasn’t a complicated website, but I went with what I’m most familiar with. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail :D Edit to say that I think it's an amazing little wholesom…
Well, in my view this was actually a very fitting nail for the hammer he had.
I disagree, most of what the website does wouldn't necessarily need all the next.js superstructure. It's a very simple and modular page.
That said, mine definitely wasn't a strong criticism.
I also think the process explanation was very enjoyable.
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#96I appreciated the breakdown of steps involved in selling an NFT. Cool writeup.
It was especially funny right after admitting the hosting cost was 70$, but he then spent 70$ x 2 to get 200$ in unusable NFT credits.
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#97> I found this exchange very fun
This guy is such a good sport. Unsolicited and impolite random critics of your tech stack on Twitter: fun.
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#98It is fascinating how our online behavior deviates from our physical world behavior.
This whole thread is about how asking for donations is a big fail online.
Yet, there's no lack of street performers in most major metros. Whether that is people in superhero costumes on Hollywood Blvd, or street dancers in times square, they all seem to be doing fine off donations.
There is something about the online "free duplicate copy" concept that just makes value dissappear
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#99One thing I don't understand about monetizing on the Internet. I see the author considered ads, tried an affiliate scheme and even did an NFT. But what about plain old, honest to God payment? Couldn't they just put a paragraph of text on the site, "Hey folks, I'm worried about hosting costs, if you find this page useful, please [Donate]", with a button redirecting to Paypal or Stripe or whatever, collect the money an…
For the last 10 years or so I've been running a free-to-use Morse Code online radio thing. It has cost me about $1000 to host so far, and has a couple of hundred DAUs. The users are not shy about feature requests, and they're not shy about complaining that I haven't implemented their feature requests. So I made a pledge to the userbase that if they collectively donate $1000 to the site, I'll start working on v2. I po…
I don't know, I always feel like there has to be some reward to incentivize people, even if it's dead simple.
Like, you can choose to have your name publicly displayed on a thank you page (this would work well with BMAC, since donations can be both anonymous and not), or have your username be of different colour or have some badge next to it.
But then again, I don't know how I would fit that into this meme page, and I'm definitely not an expert having earned a total of two euros of donations (yet to implement some reward system).
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, in my view this was actually a very fitting nail for the hammer he had.
I disagree, most of what the website does wouldn't necessarily need all the next.js superstructure. It's a very simple and modular page. That said, mine definitely wasn't a strong criticism. I also think the process explanation was very enjoyable.
In this sense, I see Nextjs more like a Swiss Army knife than a hammer. And the author (and the Vercel CEO tweets) explained that he used the exact right tools of it.
In the end, it was a static page that handled an incredible amount of traffic.