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> Mobile game that divides the earth in hexagons Interesting that I hear about this twice in the space of a week or so. Neal Stephenson was talking about it on the Lex Fridman podcast too. Apparently it's not possible. You'll always need a certain number of pentagons to complete the tiling.
Someone on Reddit asked how I make a living. Might be interesting for folks here too. Right now, we're living off our savings and my wife's salary. Both sites are already profitable, though. I've recently launched an API for NsLookup, which now generates around 100 USD / month, and both sites have ads that generate income. Not enough to replace my salary yet, but I'm confident I can increase it over time. Ads have a…
> Mobile game that divides the earth in hexagons Interesting that I hear about this twice in the space of a week or so. Neal Stephenson was talking about it on the Lex Fridman podcast too. Apparently it's not possible. You'll always need a certain number of pentagons to complete the tiling.
Some code that might help with hexagons here: https://observablehq.com/@nrabinowitz/h3-tutorial-heatmap-re...
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Are you not concerned that you are leaking exactly what domains people are looking up in realtime? If I used a service like that I would expect some degree of privacy that goes beyond this. It's crazy to me that you're doing this to be honest https://plausible.io/nslookup.io/pages?period=realtime
There is no privacy issue here, there aren't source IP addresses attached, you can't tell who's looking these up. It's up there with Amazon's (for example) "other people bought" recommendations, you can't tell who did the looking up. They're just domain names which are effectively public records. And even if you thought you registered a super secret domain name (no such thing), maybe the registrar looked it up, or so…
I'm always curious how many visitors you have to get to reach $500 per month numbers from ads. I understand the author probably can't reveal exact numbers here but if anyone knows rough but real life numbers I'd be curious to hear (I haven't ever done ad based revenue myself and I don't trust CPM numbers I'd read by googling, or the spread is just too broad).
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Some code that might help with hexagons here: https://observablehq.com/@nrabinowitz/h3-tutorial-heatmap-re...
This does not seem to address the pentagon issue though?
Nice! I quit my job 8 months ago to build free data tools. https://github.com/multiprocessio
Someone on Reddit asked how I make a living. Might be interesting for folks here too. Right now, we're living off our savings and my wife's salary. Both sites are already profitable, though. I've recently launched an API for NsLookup, which now generates around 100 USD / month, and both sites have ads that generate income. Not enough to replace my salary yet, but I'm confident I can increase it over time. Ads have a…
Have you considered signing up as a Brave creator? Could generate more income from those that have auto contribute turned on.