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"user: nickjr created: 10 hours ago karma: 54" Now, just why should I not think that you are lying?

mattdeboard 16y ago
It's not even that he may be lying. It is that this is so obviously a disposable site run as a marketing gimmick by a marketer. This doesn't strike me as "Show HN" as much as "Market to HN." Almost every post is so thick with marketing buzzwords it's impossible to read them. This whole thing seems more like a get-rich-quick scheme than a business. HN has never seemed like a place where get-rich-quick schemes are valued.
- nickjr 16y ago
  I wasn't selling anything lol dude and um ok if you want to weight your spectacular insane ramblings about something you don't understand to clearly point out why Hack News sucks and isn't valuable to anyone anymore then fine. To each his own your not going to like a service that goes mainstream all of the time, no one forces you to come here and post...noone!
nickjr 16y ago
FIRST off this is me! http://mashable.com/2008/02/19/gimado-funded/ http://mashable.com/2008/02/19/gimado-funded/ http://mashable.com/2008/05/02/epic-fail-take-two-dorble-rises-from-gimados-ashes/ http://mashable.com/2008/05/02/epic-fail-take-two-dorble-ris... I also run these sites: Nerrot.com Articleram.com Whipers.com Jenple.com Appiker.com to name a few! I joined to post this as I've been a reader of Hacker News but not a member. So if a new user joins makes a post and it gets noticed their considered falsifying info? But if this wasn't helpful to you then ok that's your opinion to not be open minded and understand what I was offering and encouraging others to do. I wasn't selling anything.
- notahacker 16y ago
  I think it's not so much the fact you're new as the extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof suspicion. And making a consistent $300 per day on a $25 Adwords budget for an apparently trivially simple site off a domain registered in mid-November is extraordinary, especially when through filtering or otherwise it isn't showing much advertising at all to us US/UK viewers. If it's down to attention to detail and an ability to spot and gauge overseas advertising niches that others haven't then more power to you (and Zynga should hire you tomorrow). I certainly think there's a useful reminder that people outside the US click on Adwords there for us. As for suggestions, you might want to find some better advertising for your non-key markets. Currently all Adwords shows me are Google's house ads...
  - nickjr 16y ago
    Major sites do what I'm saying guys they just have a team and I don't! Only real major diffrence. I never said I spent 25 a day on adwords I actually don't advertise the site using adwrds. I used adwords for testing I user various (more than one source) and spread out my campaign. Knowing this data took hundreds of dollars in testing and weeks. Again I don't use adwords I use various other methouds of buying traffic. Your confusing Adwords with Adsense buddy.
nickjr 16y ago
Also um what is karma: 54"?
- Andrew_Quentin 16y ago
  its the number of points you get on comments or submission. Like, the submission you made has about 54 points or so, that is about 53 people upvoted it. Anyway, I did not mean any offense. I think it was a fairly genuine question. I think your point about testing and 'living' by the data is spot on, though, I have no idea how I would find out whether it was a male who clicked or a female and what age group they are. I also think that what's cool and new about what you said is the custom tailoring to each country or age group or all of that combined, based on different times, etc. Isn't that almost kind of tricking your customers into clicking though? I mean, what does your google friend/google publishing manager say of it? And, 0.28 cent per click needs 1000 clicks to go to 280 which, with a click through rate of 3% translates to about 35 thousand visitors. You can get 35,000 visitors on $25? I do actually like your site though. I managed to go right to the end at which point clicking on the button would not bring up any more sentences. I think at that point a lot of people would be tempted to click the ad or facebook like. I was ha. But yeah, I like the site and thanks for sharing. As for your question as to how to get more people to visit it, I think one way may be to put up an e-mail this, and then give your visitors an easy way to enter loads of email addresses of their friends. Its sharable stuff, especially for teens.
  - nickjr 16y ago
    Hm I like the idea of the email this to a friend feature and yes the site gets tens of thousands of visits and my ctr and traffic is changing as I'm analyzing data. Also majority of major publishing sites do what I'm saying they just have a team and I don't! Only real major difference. thanks for the comments & suggestions :) greatly appreciated. It can be constructive but build upon data just don't say your a poopoo face your lying blabla I want my mommy be an adult thanks Andrew for doing that and your figures are not 100% accurate but they are in that ballpark.

It's not even that he may be lying. It is that this is so obviously a disposable site run as a marketing gimmick by a marketer. This doesn't strike me as "Show HN" as much as "Market to HN." Almost every post is so thick with marketing buzzwords it's impossible to read them. This whole thing seems more like a get-rich-quick scheme than a business. HN has never seemed like a place where get-rich-quick schemes are valued.

nickjr 16y ago
I wasn't selling anything lol dude and um ok if you want to weight your spectacular insane ramblings about something you don't understand to clearly point out why Hack News sucks and isn't valuable to anyone anymore then fine. To each his own your not going to like a service that goes mainstream all of the time, no one forces you to come here and post...noone!

nickjr 16y ago

FIRST off this is me! http://mashable.com/2008/02/19/gimado-funded/ http://mashable.com/2008/02/19/gimado-funded/ http://mashable.com/2008/05/02/epic-fail-take-two-dorble-rises-from-gimados-ashes/ http://mashable.com/2008/05/02/epic-fail-take-two-dorble-ris... I also run these sites: Nerrot.com Articleram.com Whipers.com Jenple.com Appiker.com to name a few! I joined to post this as I've been a reader of Hacker News but not a member. So if a new user joins makes a post and it gets noticed their considered falsifying info? But if this wasn't helpful to you then ok that's your opinion to not be open minded and understand what I was offering and encouraging others to do. I wasn't selling anything.

notahacker 16y ago
I think it's not so much the fact you're new as the extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof suspicion. And making a consistent $300 per day on a $25 Adwords budget for an apparently trivially simple site off a domain registered in mid-November is extraordinary, especially when through filtering or otherwise it isn't showing much advertising at all to us US/UK viewers. If it's down to attention to detail and an ability to spot and gauge overseas advertising niches that others haven't then more power to you (and Zynga should hire you tomorrow). I certainly think there's a useful reminder that people outside the US click on Adwords there for us. As for suggestions, you might want to find some better advertising for your non-key markets. Currently all Adwords shows me are Google's house ads...
- nickjr 16y ago
  Major sites do what I'm saying guys they just have a team and I don't! Only real major diffrence. I never said I spent 25 a day on adwords I actually don't advertise the site using adwrds. I used adwords for testing I user various (more than one source) and spread out my campaign. Knowing this data took hundreds of dollars in testing and weeks. Again I don't use adwords I use various other methouds of buying traffic. Your confusing Adwords with Adsense buddy.

nickjr 16y ago

Also um what is karma: 54"?

Andrew_Quentin 16y ago
its the number of points you get on comments or submission. Like, the submission you made has about 54 points or so, that is about 53 people upvoted it. Anyway, I did not mean any offense. I think it was a fairly genuine question. I think your point about testing and 'living' by the data is spot on, though, I have no idea how I would find out whether it was a male who clicked or a female and what age group they are. I also think that what's cool and new about what you said is the custom tailoring to each country or age group or all of that combined, based on different times, etc. Isn't that almost kind of tricking your customers into clicking though? I mean, what does your google friend/google publishing manager say of it? And, 0.28 cent per click needs 1000 clicks to go to 280 which, with a click through rate of 3% translates to about 35 thousand visitors. You can get 35,000 visitors on $25? I do actually like your site though. I managed to go right to the end at which point clicking on the button would not bring up any more sentences. I think at that point a lot of people would be tempted to click the ad or facebook like. I was ha. But yeah, I like the site and thanks for sharing. As for your question as to how to get more people to visit it, I think one way may be to put up an e-mail this, and then give your visitors an easy way to enter loads of email addresses of their friends. Its sharable stuff, especially for teens.
- nickjr 16y ago
  Hm I like the idea of the email this to a friend feature and yes the site gets tens of thousands of visits and my ctr and traffic is changing as I'm analyzing data. Also majority of major publishing sites do what I'm saying they just have a team and I don't! Only real major difference. thanks for the comments & suggestions :) greatly appreciated. It can be constructive but build upon data just don't say your a poopoo face your lying blabla I want my mommy be an adult thanks Andrew for doing that and your figures are not 100% accurate but they are in that ballpark.