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The guy made a million dollars. You know, I had an idea like that once. A long time ago...
At least Tom made a prototype of his idea, rather than letting the "Jump to Conclusions" map fester in his mind forever.
The original idea was very good and inspired many clones idea. Then the creator got lots of praise and hype. I remember reading articles about investors offering him lots of money. Not to punish his original creative spark, but the story of milliondollarhomepage always reminds me of this english phrase: once you are lucky, twice you are good.
Reminds me of Groupon.
Yeah I sure do. I bought the square with the "R" for reserved just beneath the grey "Download Movies" button near the middle top. The guy rejected my icon the first time around, I think I accidentally made it 11x10 or something instead of 10x10. So I resent it within 24 hours but he didn't get or ignored that email and the few subsequent ones after that. :( I loved the idea and the guy running it seemed like a great…
I met him a few times. It seemed like he "suceeded" too early with no real idea of how to do business.
He seemed like an ok kid that found himself with a lot of money overnight. We've all seen the "what now" threads on HN imagine how that could affect a teenager without the right people to help guide them.
The tweet: http://twitter.com/tewy/status/16227749407
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So what is this gentleman doing these days, I'm genuinely interested to see how he's fared.
For fun: go to http://milliondollarhomepage.com/pixellist.php and check out how many of these sites no longer exist. The top site, http://www.rentpixelads.com/en/ , is a placeholder. As are quite a few.