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$65k/month website running on one index.php file
- raybb 6y agoI wonder how much is/was spent on marketing.
- pieterhg 6y agoNo ad spend, and $0 marketing spend, just my Twitter (https://twitter.com/levelsio https://twitter.com/levelsio) and Google searches
- goshx 6y agoSo you don't mention or count all the press coverage of the "I'm launching 12 startups in 12 months"? [1] [1] https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/ https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/
- pieterhg 6y agoYep sure, that was 6 years ago. But I didn't pay money for that.
- davidwparker 6y ago6+ years of your life building followership. I'd say that cost a bit- but you've more than earned it. I, for one, enjoy all your stuff Pieter.
- bishalb 6y agoYour comment sounds like he spent the entirety of his 6+ yrs of his life building followership for the site.
- barumi 6y ago6 years of your life is a price that's pretty steep. Some crimes have prison sentences shorter than that. I wouldn't call that free.
- pieterhg 6y agoHaha it didn't feel like a prison sentence but I see what everyone means now yes. Time investment obviously, also work into the site.
- Havoc 6y agoThat's insane. I assume there is some punchy infrastructure behind this though, not just a static hosted php file?
- pieterhg 6y agoJust PHP on a Linode VPS. Not static at this moment. If it goes viral I usually generate an index.html from the index.php.
- nreece 6y agoGood stuff Pieter. Simple is good. It'll be interesting to see your code organisation. Something to learn from, as my single-page projects often get cluttered and hard to manage or add features. Btw, for some strange reason you have me (@voidmonk) blocked on Twitter :) so I can't see your tweets.
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- mromanuk 6y agoMarketing > Tech
- ghego1 6y agoThis
- thrownaway954 6y agowhole lot of ifs and switches in that thing LOL Reminds me of the first version of FUSEBOX in the late 90s. it was just a huge cfswitch/cfcase with a mess of cfincludes so it could load in eclipse since eclipse had a hard time back then with files over 1000 lines i think. i'm showing my age.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoDuke Nukem 3D supposedly has some sort of monster switch case with hundreds or thousands of labels.
- sharemywin 6y agoThis reminds of the old saying "just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done".
- divyekapoor 6y agoThere's a ton of hard work on this website. The single index.php file is not interesting. Most of the work is probably in Javascript / CSS.
- davidwparker 6y agoSure, but that's still just jQuery (not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not Vue/React/Angular/whatever).
- 0x4164 6y agoSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication
- jjeaff 6y agoI agree, but I don't think a single file with thousands of lines if not tens of thousands would be considered "simple".
- peter_d_sherman 6y agoBasically a programming jobs website...