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Show HN: VidFall – Pay with time, not your wallet

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Re: Show HN: VidFall – Pay with time, not your wallet

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The age old problem that the demographic that watches video ads for .50$ is not the demographic you want to advertise to...

So what? The people who click on google ad words and Facebook ads aren't the target market for those either. Doesn't stop them from making bank.

Re: Show HN: VidFall – Pay with time, not your wallet

#15
post #14

Really cool concept! I want to try it out, just for the game theory aspects of it. Has anyone successfully received the items they ordered off of this?

Thanks! Appreciate the kind words. We ship out around 6pm every night. We have a lot to do today!

Re: Show HN: VidFall – Pay with time, not your wallet

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post #4

Clean and i got the message in 3 seconds. I would guess your viewers will result in lower conversion rates for the advertisers when viewed from your page. Not sure how to handle that if advertisers notice. Also, since your whole pitch is about the $$$ your leaderboard should be tied to $ somehow instead of just # of watches. That's more for your own dashboard. (ie highlight the wins, not the amount of pain other user…

Definitely need to work on the pitch a bit. Thanks, this will put the fire under me to get around to cleaning that up. Appreciate the kind words!

Re: Show HN: VidFall – Pay with time, not your wallet

#18
post #9

Its very hard to trust this website when there is a massive misrepresentation of the number of viewers.

Hey the watchers variable is dependent upon the number of people actually watching videos. We were making a TON of calls to our ad networks at the peak of the HN craze, but not all the videos were coming through. That is why the viewer variable was all screwy. Lots of work ahead, appreciate the constructive criticism!

Re: Show HN: VidFall – Pay with time, not your wallet

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post #14

Really cool concept! I want to try it out, just for the game theory aspects of it. Has anyone successfully received the items they ordered off of this?

Thanks! Appreciate the kind words. We ship out around 6pm every night. We have a lot to do today!

Turns out I couldn't buy because my Bank of America card currently has a UK address attached to it. Let people use international billing addresses for digital goods like Amazon gift cards?

(Also, better aesthetics (like removing the stripe texture and the greyscale menu) would make this site way more trust-worthy in my eyes. Currently it looks too much like a rough tech demo quickly thrown together on Wordpress)

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