Inside a viral website

Post by nicbou » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 5:57 AM UTC

jefftk wrote: post #226

TeMPOraL wrote: post #55

One 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 Bucket Brigade I ask for donations [1] which has covered about 50% of my costs so far [2]. I think how well this works depends a lot on how useful people find your site vs what your costs are? [1] https://echo.jefftk.com/#About [2] https://www.jefftk.com/bucket-brigade-payments

Post by skrebbel » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 9:22 AM UTC

ducttapelogic wrote: post #147

skrebbel wrote: post #116

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That's all true but it means that you need to market your person, become an "internet personality" just to collect donations on something technical that you built It works, true, eg Andrew Kelley is funding his Zig work that way and it's pretty amazing to see him ace it. But damn you gotta be a particular kind of person to not get extremely stressed out about that prospect.

Ah, you've beet me to it skrebbel. :) I actually wanted to write something like this. It's really hard to be what you are (in my case - a very introverted and private person), give something valuable to the world and actually live from that. That would be a beautiful life, really. p.s. Not saying there are no people who didn't manage to pull it off, but I'm pretty sure those people are exceptions rather than the rule…

Post by 3xasperated » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

Post by T-hawk » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 6:43 PM UTC

dillondoyle wrote: post #296

T-hawk wrote: post #233

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Reddit gold makes tons of sense. People can pay money to amplify the opinions they want amplified. Reddit actually monetized internet arguing.

Sorry I meant it makes no sense for redditers to buy gold for posts that they are specifically calling out Reddit for bad behavior

Post by Breza » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

srmarm wrote: post #161

It's a bit of a time limited joke and not a business. If it was done as a business and ad heavy it wouldn't be shared so much. Seems to me the best monetisation he could do is selling himself. Even a couple hours work off the back of it would have been beating any ad's etc. I had a minor web hit in the 90s, tried to do affiliate links etc but nothing really worked but I did get a little bit of work from it that has b…