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I created a card game that I sell on Amazon. I have it manufactured in China and sell it though Fulfillment by Amazon. Quite a change from my day job working in software but I enjoy the diversity. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PJKCXJC
Mind talking some about how you do it?
I sell drugs. It's a lot harder than you might think. My clients give pretty reliable recurring revenue, so much so that it's gone from a side project to a full time gig for me.
I left my full-time job back in February 2013 (coming up on 2 years). I currently split my time between consulting and growing my products (a downloadable and a SaaS). Revenue from my oldest app is still > $1000/month. Been a fun ride so far.
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Hey, the site is: http://betalyst.com/ It is just on a stock wordpress theme at the moment as I am currently developing a better site for it. The algorithm selections can be seen here: http://betalyst.com/tips-zone/ Still a lot more work to do on it! - Feel free to share are potential improvements, I am not afraid of constructive criticism! It is very much something I threw together to get the algorithm into the wild…
Nice job! You're probably aware of this site https://betegy.com/ maybe you can get some ideas from them (not affiliated). You should discuss your site at /r/soccerbetting my email is in my profile if you want to discuss further.
May ask for some feedback in there!
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Sure. What would you like to know?
I'm just curious how you go about doing it and how you actually index the links. Let's say you scrape tbp (or any other site) every X minutes. You see a link-- how do you know if you already saved that link? From there, I'm assuming you just have a simple model for each link which you save and render on the frontend. I'm used to building pretty simple webapps, so doing something like this is really interesting to me…
So what I would do was check TPB every hour, and get the links through the API. If I didn't have them in my DB, I added them. If I had them I updated the seeder / tracker info.
Once I have that info, I scan the DB for magnet links that haven't yet been thumbnailed. I use the transmission-daemon to manage the torrent downloads, and keep a handful of them going at all times. Getting that working properly was kind of a pain in the neck.
Once a torrent is downloaded, I use ffmpeg to scan it and make 10 thumbnails of every movie file in it. The torrents are deleted after they're thumbnailed.
Not much marketing, I just post about it here and there in places where people would be interested in hearing about it.
I'm hoping TPB comes back up soon so I can refresh my data. It's way out of date.
An Android app I made in a few hours makes $500/m from ads, and has 1M+ downloads on Google Play. It claims to be a radar detector for your phone, but that's not even possible (it's actually just completely random). The description says that it is for novelty purposes, but the reviews show people believe it works and it has a placebo effect. Most reviews say things like "I drove past a police station and it went off!…
Worst case this probably encourages people to slow down when driving and doesn't actually help them avoid tickets, but you're still being quite dishonest.
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You're pushing malware via popups. To convert one video, I was subjected to each of these popups three times: http://i.imgur.com/qqK77qp.png http://i.imgur.com/eCAtjOi.png You're probably paid per install, unless the distribution model for malware has significantly changed in the past six years. Assuming $2 per install, that would mean you're infecting 15,000 machines per month. At bare minimum, this malware you dist…
I don't see any popups, it's probably just you. Though I like how you based ALL of your reasoning around a probably false alarm, and you just kept going on and on with conclusions.
There was a number of similar active threads over the years, some great ideas in them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387789