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Re: Ask HN: Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com

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Post by trevorturk »

brk wrote: post #34
trevorturk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I've always been a fan of the 37signals school of thought around bringing simplicity to web applications. You know - the whole "Getting Real" thing. The way I see it, this has a better business model than a lot of web startups nowadays. At the very least, we've got a slow "burn rate" seeing as how we've spent about 5 hours on the project. As for generating revenue? I think we've got a while before we have to wo…

37 signals provides products that people pay for and get value from. Your button adds no value, has no stickyness, and is not something people will pay for. I think your "product" here is just creative trolling.

Maybe it would help if you thought of it as an art project instead. In any case - and I hope this doesn't come off as trolling - isn't creativity exactly the sort of thing us hackers should be striving for? If you measure success in terms of "mak[ing] something people want" then I'd call this a success, if only a small one. For whatever reason, people sure do seem to enjoy clicking that button!

Re: Ask HN: Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com

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Post by [deleted] »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #15
trevorturk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I've always been a fan of the 37signals school of thought around bringing simplicity to web applications. You know - the whole "Getting Real" thing. The way I see it, this has a better business model than a lot of web startups nowadays. At the very least, we've got a slow "burn rate" seeing as how we've spent about 5 hours on the project. As for generating revenue? I think we've got a while before we have to wo…

This took you five hours? Seriously?

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Re: Ask HN: Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com

#44

Post by staunch »

andyn wrote: post #23
trevorturk wrote: post #19

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Shit. I'll have to talk to the CEO about this. We should have done more market research.

Don't forget its sister site: http://www.sadtrombone.com/

I already use instantrimshot on a daily basis. Now this one. More than I use Facebook...

Re: Ask HN: Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com

#45

Post by tlrobinson »

lpgauth wrote: post #37
tlrobinson wrote: post #31

I cheated: while true; do curl -d submit.x=1 -d submit.y=1 -b clickthatbutton=10521 http://clickthatbutton.com/; echo; done edit: and apparently you (or my ISP) throttle ;)

We need to get this code threaded...

    #!/bin/sh

    n=10
    while [ $n -ge 0 ]; do
    	sh -c "while true; do curl -d submit.x=1 -d submit.y=1 -b clickthatbutton=10521 http://clickthatbutton.com/; echo; done" &
    	n=`expr $n - 1`
    done
Change "n=10" to change the number of concurrent requests. Anyone have a better method?

Re: Ask HN: Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com

#48

Post by jcapote »

tlrobinson wrote: post #45
lpgauth wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We need to get this code threaded...

#!/bin/sh n=10 while [ $n -ge 0 ]; do sh -c "while true; do curl -d submit.x=1 -d submit.y=1 -b clickthatbutton=10521 http://clickthatbutton.com/; echo; done" & n=`expr $n - 1` done Change "n=10" to change the number of concurrent requests. Anyone have a better method?

Nice approach, My friend and I were trying to do the same thing. http://juliocapote.com/post/56866975/so-you-want-to-click-th... bookmarklet version: http://ubergibson.com/~alan/bmforge/

Re: Ask HN: Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com

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Post by swombat »

rksprst wrote: post #38
immad wrote: post #7

I didn't click the button. I didn't want to. Too many people had done it already

I clicked it and when I found out others have already clicked it I felt cheap and used.

I clicked it several times. The fact that other people had clicked it too made me feel like I belong to a community, like there are people out there who care about me and my button-clicking.
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