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What did you write? 3 million pageviews a month is amazing.

• jonknee 16y ago
  A mobile version of the Drudge Report. Before the days of modern smartphone browsers it was an especially frustrating site to visit and I wrote a scraper that reformatted out all the long lists of unchanging links. Didn't think about it (or use it much really--it was more of an academic exercise) and then years later realized it had gained [significant] popularity. The news out of Japan has increased traffic. 140k page views yesterday and 3.4m in the last rolling month period according to Google Analytics.
  • alanfalcon 16y ago
    It would be amusing if someone was somehow selling your website as a simple web view app on the App Store.
    • jonknee 16y ago
      Bing bing. That's what it is. There's both a free and paid version. Time to contact the developer...
      • sireat 16y ago
        So what are you going to do? The easy thing would be to just shut it off, but more amusing thing would be to make the news links nonsensical (ie go to Onion etc). Of course, the best thing would be to get your own cut of the revenue.
        • jonknee 16y ago
          I asked for money and if I don't get it will cut it off. It takes a bit for an update to make it through the App Store, so I have a bit of leverage.
          • alanfalcon 16y ago
            Instead of cutting it off, can you just add some ads on the page? Many will probably complain, leave 1 star reviews, and stop using the app, but in the meantime you'll make some money off the app (even the free version). Whatever ethical issues inherent in profiting off scraped content have already been bypassed by asking for money, though any issues with the law could be a bigger concern.
            • jonknee 16y ago
              After balking at payment, I have cut him off and asked that profits be donated to the Red Cross. We'll see, crazier things have happened.