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Ask HN: Please rate my start-up idea
I'm making a twitter ad network that let's users find and choose interesting posts, links, etc from businesses who put them up on the site(Kind of like on hacker news).
The twitter user then browses, votes, etc. Then when they think that one is interesting enough, they promote it with a tweet. Worded however they choose to word it. All done in a non-spammy way.
I think that it may be whats missing in social advertising but i really am questioning the idea.
Some feedback from HN is greatly appreciated.
Cheers!!
Note: Excuse the poor writing. :)
- trevelyan 16y agoWhy would anyone do this? Not you, I mean. The user?
- taphangum 16y agoTo make money really. The fact that they can find interesting information would be the bonus.
- coryl 16y agoCan't say making money is a very big motivator when it comes to using web services. People use digg, facebook, flickr, twitter, etc. all for free because it adds value to the time they spend online.
- dcx 16y agoHmm, how would you compensate the twitter user for giving up their time and social credibility?
- dcx 16y ago(And also - what kind of demographic would your advertisers be able to target at that level of payment?)
- taphangum 16y agoWell, essentially i would be adopting the pay-per-click model. And have the same kind of profit share with the twitter user. The model allows for the user to do the targeting for us. Because they will only promote the things that personally interests them. I suspect that their interests would also be their followers interests
- amk 16y agoI am not so sure what you mean by "non-spammy way". As an avid twitter user, I would certainly mind it if the people I follow start tweeting ads on my timeline. Actually clicking on these ads is just out of the question. But then again, I am not speaking from the perspective of either of your customers: The ad publishers or the advertisers.