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Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community
- ghurlman 16y ago"Mahalo dollars"? What's the conversion rate to USD, or to Shrute Bucks for that matter?
- what 16y ago1 Mahalo Dollar ~= 0.68 USD, based on the price of iPod nano in their store. Or 1 Mahalo Dollar ~= 0.57 USD, based on their $25 gift cards.
- chris24 16y ago1 Mahalo dollar is equal to $0.75 USD, if you have 150 Mahalo Dollars or more. If you don't have that much, then you have to buy something with the 'Mahalo Store', which offers a very limited number of items for an even lower exchange rate.
- epoxy 16y agoWell that's certainly confusing.
- oldgregg 16y agoI agree, he keeps using "community" and "mahalo" in the same sentence.
- lanstein 16y agoThere's a Mahalo 'community'?
- tptacek 16y agoSure, in the sense that there is also a Demand Media 'community'.
- jcromartie 16y agoI was about to make the exact same quip :)
- mcknz 16y agoAt least it's not a message to the Hacker News community.
- famfam 16y agoI love how snarky comments are downvoted on HN UNLESS they're about Mahalo. 30 more karma to go, then I'm going to come back and downvote you and everyone else making the same comment on this thread.
- dschobel 16y agoHN has a general disdain towards anything which is detrimental to the online landscape (spam, bad pieces of legislation, etc). No one really gives a crap about Jason or Mahalo, the consensus just seems to be that it operates in the gray areas of SEO with little value added to the content they vacuum in. Feel free to correct the perception though.
- famfam 16y agoNot arguing about the dubiousness of Mahalo. I agree with the assessment. But I don't see why we're lowering the bar for the quality of comments when it's re: a maligned entity. Sorry, it's still HN, when I read a thread about Mahalo I'm not looking for a me-too dogpile of jokes or zings. I want to read some real analysis.
- jasonmcalacanis 16y agoActually, there is a really solid community of folks building pages, asking questions, providing answers, etc.
- what 16y agoI'm inclined to believe this. Check out this question titled "Do your family members or friends criticize you for the amount of time you spend on Mahalo?" http://www.mahalo.com/answers/do-your-family-members-or-friends-criticize-you-for-the-amount-of-time-you-spend-on-mahalo-need-advice http://www.mahalo.com/answers/do-your-family-members-or-frie...
- alanh 16y agoHow long has Mahalo been using Dora the Explorer as their mascot?
- what 16y agoHow can they afford to pay 50+ people $1000/month. Do they really pull in that much from advertising?
- slouch 16y agowww.mahalo.com/type-anything-here
- alttab 16y agohttp://www.mahalo.com/mahalo-is-a-trap http://www.mahalo.com/mahalo-is-a-trap Looks like they are willing to pay me to make that page. I may take them up on it.
- blizkreeg 16y agoI get that they're making good money by embedding ads in every inch of the site. Is this really a 'good' and respectable business model though? Something about it doesn't sit well with me, especially when the site doesn't offer quality content to the user.
- hvs 16y agoThat's your conscience speaking. The fact that it bothers you is a good thing.
- OmarIsmail 16y agoThings aren't always so cut and dry. There's probably some people - a large number in fact - that does derive benefit from some of Mahalo's pages. You also have the fact that the revenue generated by Mahalo is going towards paying people which lets them live and feed themselves, etc. In terms of the grand scheme of things, what Mahalo is doing isn't that "bad". It's also not the ideal case either. As a savvy web user a Mahalo page is one of the last pages I'd want to visit, but I'm also savvy enough to know how to avoid it.
- jasonmcalacanis 16y ago
- jasonmcalacanis 16y agoI'm sorry, why is this on Hacker News exactly? Isn't there a more interesting story about another deserving startup or individual we can focus on? really.... I'm bored with seeing Calacanis on the front page of HN.