Come to think of it, MillionDollarHomepage could have offered "pixels owners" of dead businesses to resell their space while taking a cut.
True, but it's also nice to be able to see the unaltered billboard from back then!
My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden
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Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden
#52I had the same idea and ended up with 75pixels.com, but never did anything with it. Not really surprising that it is similar given that probably many domains there had "pixel" in it and probably we both tried to get an innocuous one. EDIT: Or was it 75pixels.net? I seem to own both.
Did you explore archives of the original website?
Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the problem is that while this project has its own twist and not a 1-to-1 clone of the MDHP, ultimately it's not some new or really interesting idea but rather just an attempt to make some money for the author.
>ultimately it's not some new or really interesting idea but rather just an attempt to make some money You just described 90% of startups
To be honest... yeah, maybe even more.
Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden
#54I had the same idea and ended up with 75pixels.com, but never did anything with it. Not really surprising that it is similar given that probably many domains there had "pixel" in it and probably we both tried to get an innocuous one. EDIT: Or was it 75pixels.net? I seem to own both.
Did you explore archives of the original website?
Yes, I explored it on DomainTools and to say it doesn't have a completely pristine past is a bit of an understatement, but I think it is hardly possible to find a clean one that at the same time is not trademark risk either.
Re: My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden
#55Don't tell this reddit. Spez might bring back r/places with a twist..
They already did that to distract from the ongoing API changes issues, away from april fools season. Not sure if it worked, the moderator issue seems to be back page news now that the people have either left or moved on leaving just a sort of netsplit to kbin and lemmy. https://redditmigration.com/
That was just normal r/places. I was thinking of removing the timeout, and instead let people pay x cent for placing 1 pixel.