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I make about $600/mo pretty consistently with a typing game (http://zty.pe http://zty.pe) - about 200k visits/mo. I once managed another project that had about
by phoboslab 9y ago
I make about $600/mo pretty consistently with a typing game (http://zty.pe http://zty.pe) - about 200k visits/mo.
I once managed another project that had about 14m visits/mo and made a meager $3000. Bad target demographic.
- lappet 9y agoWow, http://zty.pe http://zty.pe is really fun!
- sundvor 9y agoOh yes! :-) First try: 1866, wave 15, 96% accuracy, 244 streak. Should have a donate button on the page (because uBlock..). Edit: Or: Register to track progress over time with a login, for a low fixed(?) fee.
- biztos 9y agoThat was awesome! I only got 1180 / 95.5% but I am lying on my back and have an injured hand. :-)
- Rainymood 9y ago3100 score, wave 21, fun game!
- liquizar 9y agothis is a cool game.
- mshenfield 9y agozty.pe is really fun - played it for an hour when it came up in another hacker news post. How did the costs of running the 14m vists/mo compare to http://zty.pe http://zty.pe? Different times, and probably different kind of site, but did the experience change the types of applications you tried to build?
- phoboslab 9y agoI'm hosting ztype on the same server as all my other personal sites (http://phoboslab.org http://phoboslab.org, http://impactjs.com http://impactjs.com and a few more) and pay 50€/mo for everything. The project with the 14m visits/mo generated 700tb of traffic and required half a dozen servers. Cost was around $2000/mo with traffic being the most expensive part. (I complained about traffic costs with cloud hosters a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11301085 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11301085)
- splicer 9y agoI think I might used this to practice touch typing. It looks addicting :) I tried to bookmark it by hitting command-D (in Safari on a Mac), but since you capture all keystrokes, I couldn't bookmark it. Perhaps you'd see a bump in your numbers if you allowed command-D through?
- codefined 9y agoI don't seem to get this? Windows, Chrome, bookmarking seems to work fine?
- grizzles 9y agoI tried it and quit after a minute of play. I suggest making the levels a little bit longer to unlock a greater sense of accomplishment. Just curious, why the phone-type aspect for a typing game? Fantastic graphics.
- tomerbd 9y agoI don't get it how do you guys get to million of visitors? actually - if you just tell me how to get to hundreds of unique returning visitors??!?!
- rnprince 9y agoI don't know if you were looking for feedback about the game, but the ease of losing progress quickly made me stop playing; because I was more likely to stop playing right after losing, you might want to make it take a longer time to advance levels, or to add multiple lives so that you don't lose all your progress suddenly. But I don't know how that would affect my likeliness to see the ad. To improve that, maybe add more natural pause points to the game, so people can have more chances to click?
- Kerrick 9y agoLosing quickly provides natural pause points to the game ;)
- BatFastard 9y agoI was wondering how you monetized it, until I realized my ad blocker was probably blocking everything...
- mrleinad 9y agoYeah, same here, sorry.
- xtrimsky1234 9y agoI used to be very anti-ad blockers. But ads seem so much more annoying these days, can't really live without one anymore :(
- loco5niner 9y agoYep, and it's so easy to whitelist a site like this (at least with ublock origin)
- lkhatter 9y agojust bookmarked zty.pe it was great.
- _binder 9y agoYou should thank Jerry from Barnecules Nerdgasm channel on YouTube. He used too play it often, That's where I saw it from ...He started playing it from the old version which is where I heard about it too. I Take two hours off every Sunday to play it and get my typing skills up.
- _binder 9y agoYou should thank Jerry from Barnecules Nerdgasm channel on YouTube. He used too play it often, That's where I saw it from ...He started playing it from the old version which is where I heard about it too. I Take two hours off every Sunday to play it and get my typing skills up.
- TheGrassyKnoll 9y agoThought it was cool too, and I don't play that many games.
- dlevine 9y agoI used to play this game years ago (2010 or 2011). Glad to see that it's still there.
- dyim 9y agoFun game! Just played a round - the ship that shoots a bunch of single letters is a cool mechanic. Can I see how I stack up against other users?
- ge96 9y agoPretty cool game curious if you do anything with it, like do you somehow use the client's resources or what? Is it just to waste time? Though I could see if it's a "trying to improve typing speed" as it has to be typed in order
- srednalfden 9y agoWhat tech stack is the site by built with?
- jbeja 9y agoIs inpactjs.
- suneilp 9y agoWhen sharing the link on facebook, there is no useful preview, mostly just a white block.
- mrleinad 9y agoGreat game!!
- genkimind 9y agoDude this game is fantastic. Especially how the individual letters split off. Great job!
- dis-sys 9y agogreat game!
- econnors 9y agoAwesome games, you create great atmosphere
- jecjec 9y agoThis game is sick!!
- geekme 9y agoAddictive game
- codefined 9y agoHas this been updated recently? I remember an older version (that I actually enjoy more with the difficulty selection!). Is that still hosted anywhere?
- thomasdd 9y agoVery relaxing Game! Great!
- jasonb778 9y agoYou guys are in the wrong game for making money. I got out of seo and paid ads and I trade now averaging about $2000 a day. Here's how you do it http://rurl.us/JC6fQ http://rurl.us/JC6fQ
- haffla 9y agoA shame it crashes on both Chrome and Safari (iOS 10.3.2, iPhone 5)
- ksec 9y agoI dont see any ads in there? P.S: This game is seriously fun!
- typhonic 9y agoWow, finding (http://zty.pe http://zty.pe) was serendipitous. Please don't include that world in the early levels, I'm not a good typist.
- jeshwanth 9y agoGreat, I used the android App version of this. This is awesome.
- fasdfdsafas 9y agoAwesome game, used to play it often at my old job. I like how it makes you sound productive.