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I wasn't going to say anything further on this thread, but I just checked out your site: http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6032/wwcom.png http://img526.images

I wasn't going to say anything further on this thread, but I just checked out your site: http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6032/wwcom.png http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6032/wwcom.png I'm sorry dude, but Posterous found a way to finance their site without plastering their homepage with ads for 'AdultFriendFinder'. The fact that I don't have women's crotches shoved in my face when I go to a Posterous blog means they're one step ahead of you. The fact that you couldn't pull off what Posterous did without the sky falling on your business doesn't mean that it will for other businesses. When you've got $5 million worth of other people's money on the line and you need to find a working business model, I think you'd find your priorities shift pretty quick and you'd get down to brass tacks. Your particular experience does not generalize universally. If a business is so pussy-whipped they're afraid to cover their bottom line with a completely unobtrusive way to make some scratch, without asking their customers for it directly or pimping out their site with dirty ads, I think that's a pretty sweet way to go. I'd rather be running the business that provides incredible value to its users for free but doesn’t have to ask them whether it can please go to the potty.

jacquesm 16y ago
Hilarious. I've been 100% up front about having advertising on that site as a means of making it profitable, the interesting bit here is that I enabled those ads specifically in order to produce some data, the 9 years between 2001 and the posting listed below it has been ad free. See this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108677 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108677 It has been a lot of work and it will be a lot more work still before it is finished. You're pretty quick to judge here just because of adult friend finder, ww.com has always had an adult component which we've tried very hard to eradicate, but since that seems to be impossible it is an excellent place to see how much money you can make with that kind of advertising. Or would you rather have I tested that on reocities.com or so? Posterous is doing fine without resorting to silly tricks, and they've done just that. It's a pity because they are one of the best sites in that segment today and they stand to lose a lot if they do stuff like this and not learn their lessons from it.

jacquesm 16y ago

Hilarious. I've been 100% up front about having advertising on that site as a means of making it profitable, the interesting bit here is that I enabled those ads specifically in order to produce some data, the 9 years between 2001 and the posting listed below it has been ad free. See this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108677 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108677 It has been a lot of work and it will be a lot more work still before it is finished. You're pretty quick to judge here just because of adult friend finder, ww.com has always had an adult component which we've tried very hard to eradicate, but since that seems to be impossible it is an excellent place to see how much money you can make with that kind of advertising. Or would you rather have I tested that on reocities.com or so? Posterous is doing fine without resorting to silly tricks, and they've done just that. It's a pity because they are one of the best sites in that segment today and they stand to lose a lot if they do stuff like this and not learn their lessons from it.