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Inside a viral website

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Post by rideontime »

jordansmith wrote: post #34
inetknght wrote: post #32

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> * Imagine you hosted a sleep blog and directed people to a particular memory foam pillow. If you saw they ended up purchasing a different pillow, you could change the link to better serve your readers.* If I buy a memory foam pillow from company B instead of company A then I don't want company A to know at all. If I wanted company A to know then I would tell company A why I didn't purchase its product. Maybe it was…

In that example company A isn’t the one who sees it or gets money. It’s the third party sleep blog who you just clicked a link on for “top 5 memory foam pillows”. Now they see which one people buy most and can give that the favorable rating

Shouldn't the blog be giving the favorable rating to the pillow they think is the best, not the one that's most likely to sell through?

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Post by zepearl »

Great article - funny & interesting :)

Question about "Ads/advertisements" (I'm totally clueless about how they work):

Does anybody have a link pointing to some kind of overview from the point of view of a website owner? (e.g. list of different providers, amounts paid by views/clicks, which informations are/can be exchanged with them to provide for example an ad in the same context of what the website is showing, etc...?)

Personally as a user, I would not be against ads if they would be normal ones like in a newspaper/magazine, but many show full-fledged small&big animations => I get angry when I see my CPU usage at 100%/my fan spinning up/my battery depleting while reading on such a page, which is the main if not the only reason why I block them (I might even be interested in them, but they screw up my PC/notebook) => as a website owner do you have control on what kind of ads you want to show (technically speaking - like "animated" vs. "static", with how many fps, etc...)?

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Post by tomjohnneill »

tomjohnneill wrote: post #3
dx034 wrote: post #2

Interestingly, according to [1] there were only ~11k visitors from Hackernews for a post on the front page that had ~1k comments. I would've estimated the visitor/comment ratio to be much, much higher. [1] https://simpleanalytics.com/istheshipstillstuck.com?utm_sour...

I only put simple analytics on the site the day after it was at the top of Hacker News (unfortunately)

For what it's worth (and I know this is getting extremely meta), but as it stands this writeup has had 21,963 visitors from Hacker News. (205 comments as I write this).

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Post by redisman »

erik_seaberg wrote: post #198
jrochkind1 wrote: post #193

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good point. I'm used to applying "pyramid scheme" to "i buy this thing not cause I want it but just hoping I can sell it to someone else for more money later, and they're going to be doing the same thing as me." Cause that is likely to leave someone holding the bag. But I guess that is an overlapping phenomenon that may not be the same as a pyramid scheme. What do we call that phenomenon? Just "capitalism"?

A pyramid scheme pays out fake returns that were actually new investments, which requires unsustainable geometric growth. An asset bubble doesn’t depend on fraud or growth, it just keeps going until speculators’ confidence is shaken.

A pyramid is a more psychologically powerful scam as many people actually get big returns and become true believers. Made up assets are more akin to the tulip mania and such.

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Post by tomjohnneill »

iamacyborg wrote: post #129
VBprogrammer wrote: post #123

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In the article he mentioned this; he was worried about the hosting costs. Thankfully his host got a laugh out of it and donated the hosting cost and he has in turn donated any proceeds.

Right, but if you're incurring significant hosting costs for a static site in 2021 then you're doing something wrong.

In hindsight, you're right. And obviously I didn't. However at the time, it was the uncertainty as a result of never having done something like this that made me worried.

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Post by redisman »

iamacyborg wrote: post #126
brianmorris10 wrote: post #12

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Swag. Set up some shitty designs on one of those dropshipping sites and a storefront. Mugs, hoodies, etc.

And sell what exactly? It’s not like he owns the copyright on the maritime map or on photographs of the ever given.

Commission some basic art about it?

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Post by nickjj »

This reminds me of the toilet paper site from last year.

From no traffic to 10+ million visitors and being featured on late night talk shows. It was 6 lines of JavaScript and took 20 minutes to build but peaked at making $5,000 a day from ads.

I ended up chatting with its creator on how he built and hosted it at https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/35-determine-what-yo....

But since then it looks like he transferred the site to someone else because now it's an e-commerce shop instead of a toilet paper calculator like it once was.

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Post by kbenson »

zeropoint46 wrote: post #205
kbenson wrote: post #190

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So, a couple months ago, I started using a site for a game I play that provides maps, info on items in the game, current prices for the global market that players can trade on, etc. You can link it to your Patreon account, and if you're a patron for $5/mo, the site gives you historical data on the market, and a few other useful features for the game. There's also a Discord for updates, features requests, general dev…

what game?

Escape From Tarkov. It's a real interesting mix of shooter, stealth, and looting/management that I haven't really seen anywhere else. It's on the realism side of the spectrum, which I like. It's also extremely unforgiving, which is good for those that are a bit masochistic in their gaming, which apparently I am.

There's lots to unpack there that make it different than most other games I've played, but you can get a good idea from watching some Twitch streams.

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Post by camillomiller »

redisman wrote: post #167
camillomiller wrote: post #95

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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.

This is a news event related meme site. Of course you should use what you have muscle memory for so you can ship it in one day. Who cares if some other framework the author doesn't know would have done the job

This comment is gold. Big news: There’s intelligent life outside frameworks.
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