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Look at my silly idea
- jason_slack 16y agoLooks like the website is shut down now!
- f1gm3nt 16y agoOr is it? I can see someone doing this just to screw with people. Well played who ever uploaded it ;p
- jason_slack 16y agoah, yeah good point, someone could have done that! I did not even think of that. Notifo is back up front again!
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- jawns 16y agoI came up with a similar idea a few years ago -- Who Wants First? -- which featured a giant, billboard-type text ad space at the top, in the first position. You could place your ad text there for $1, bumping down all the previous ads into smaller-sized ad spots. Fun idea, but never really took off. Hope yours has better luck!
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- locopati 16y agoDo keep us posted on how well you do with this - maybe a counter somewhere on the page
- zinssmeister 16y agowill there be a history feature so people can browse to previous pictures?
- hkr 16y agosure, that'll be $2.
- mattblalock 16y agoI'd love to hear how this goes, please update us. :)
- z0r 16y agoMake it cost a dollar more every time the image is changed, and put it under a better url!
- mattblalock 16y agoYeah, better url would help... but what is it? I mean, I don't know what the word is that describes it... Reminds me of both billboards and those $/pixel things people did in the nineties.
- vital101 16y agoMy knee-jerk reaction was that this was stupid, but then I REALLY wanted to see what the next picture was... Exploiting curiosity like this is kind of a neat idea.
- pitra 16y agoThis has got to the best description of this app!
- edkennedy 16y agoI paid a dollar, and it worked!! Now waiting for the self-satisfaction to set in...(edit: didn't last long, "fork you" took over.)
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- f1gm3nt 16y ago* How long does it take before the image is changed? * Can we view previous images? * Can you put a timer up that says image has been up for X minutes? * If I want to change the picture and pay you and some does the same thing at the same time, but they clicked the submit button a few seconds after I did, then I'm gonna be a little pissed as I never saw my picture up there * Counter that says Image viewed X times? * Is there a minimum amount of time that the image stays up? (5 or 10 minutes?)
- katox 16y agoPeople will pay for anything apparently. This idea is not even original. Try again here http://www.lastpicstanding.com/ http://www.lastpicstanding.com/
- kmfrk 16y agoNB: NSFW as of this writing.
- f1gm3nt 16y agoThis site is free and you don't have to pay to change the image.
- zach 16y agoTherefore it will always be as NSFW as humanly possible.
- katox 16y agoI lurk there here and there for a few months and I can assure you that you are wrong. Unless you classify puppies, jokes and lolcats as such.
- zach 16y agoCool! I'm delighted to hear whenever the internet is not being overwhelmed by the other side of the "anonymity plus audience" equation.
- PStamatiou 16y agoI paid a dollar to put up a notifo ad. :) edit: I paid another dollar and put up another notifo ad. :)
- f1gm3nt 16y agoI noticed and actually went to your web site. Had never heard of you guys before. Good job.
- eam 16y agoI saw it. Nice shirts!
- jazzychad 16y agoI can confirm that while the Notifo pic was up, we had a burst of traffic to the homepage... so there's an interesting data point.
- kellysutton 16y agoI overrode your ad with a HackCollege banner :)
- PStamatiou 16y agoHey Kelly! Actually you overrode the picture of two dudes of an office that overrode mine about 1 min ago hehe
- kellysutton 16y agoShazbot!
- rman666 16y agoIt might be cool if the user could add a link to the image. They'd get a sudden burst of hits. AND, make it so I can pay as much as I want and my picture will stay up until someone agrees to pay more. You'll make a fortune off of people with egos.
- gaustin 16y ago> make it so I can pay as much as I want and my picture will stay up until someone agrees to pay more. I'd think you'd also want to add some sort of decay on the threshold price to keep people spending.
- rman666 16y agoWhat are those things at the top? Pot leaves? Down arrows? I know they are buttons, but what are the images supposed to be?
- kmfrk 16y agoShouldn't you increment the cost? I actually thought of milliondollarhomepage.com looking at your site. If the URL is more interesting, you might be on to something very interesting. If it catches on, people might buy themselves some media attention just by buying the image. Love your idea.
- younata 16y agohow much have you made so far?
- jason_slack 16y agoOK, I just paid my dollar! My wife and I don't recall where we took this, the beach I think!
- jason_slack 16y agoWhy was this down voted? You did not like the pic? Sort of uncalled for...
- jason_slack 16y agoDamn only up 7 minutes..!!
- markbnine 16y agoNow go on Mechanical Turk and offer $1 to people who upload a photo...
- brandnewlow 16y agoBoo. My pic lasted all of 40 seconds.
- PStamatiou 16y agoIt's okay. My pic that replaced your pic lasted 20 seconds.
- brandnewlow 16y agoAnd now it's being trolled.
- citricsquid 16y agoI feel bad but I'm interested in seeing if it works, whether or not people take notice or if they assume it was someone being a dick. Seems to have lasted 2 mins so far.
- astrofinch 16y agoThis has been done before.
- gaustin 16y agoI just something very silly. If you didn't catch it while it's up, then it didn't happen.
- mrchess 16y agoWow please put a NSFW tag on this. I went to it and was hit with a picture of a sliced up decaying corpse.
- JSig 16y agoOMG. I just saw the most disgusting thing ever!
- Andrenid 16y agoI think you should be able to pay as much as you want. Each dollar you pay* = 1 minute-credit. So say you pay $50, you get 50 minutes. Someone then needs to outbid your remaining minute-credits to replace you. Eg if you paid for 30 minutes ($30) but it has been up for 15 minutes, you have 15 minutes remaining, so someone has to bid $15 or more to replace you. Once you get to 0 minutes left, your picture stays up until someone pays $1 or more to add their own minute-credits and replace you. This 'decay' means that you'll always have people trying to snipe as soon as it's affordable, to get their pic up. Have a timer underneath saying "5 minutes remaining..." to give people an idea of what they need to bid over to get their pic up. (*The actual price suggested is just random to make it easy to explain. $1/minute is probably too much in reality)
- niclupien 16y agoThat's it. I'm doing a "buy a pixel" ... and with an little extra to choose color, of course.
- pitra 16y agoThanks everyone! It was exciting to see people use this thing. As requested, here's a bunch of info about the project. 1. I made it in 4 hours during Fun Hours at my company. 2. It's a rails app, although main page is served by nginx, there is only one controller, with one action, using one view and one model :) 3. I submitted it to HN and Reddit. The latter community completely ignored it (1 upvote) due to bad name ("Please give me a dollar"). 4. I used Reinvigorate to track live statistics. A very nice tool. 5. There were 2600 uniques and 6200 pageviews (for an app with only two pages, one of which is visible only after paypal). People were refreshing their browser, even though JS actually polls for a new image automatically. 6. I made $20. 8 of them were for ads. 7. One person paid $1 to post a shock image. 8. PayPal gives me emails, names and addresses of everyone who paid. I will not contact anybody. 9. Nobody loved the domain name, so I will reuse it! 10. NO, I will not add features to this fart app ;)