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Show HN: Nothingly – The gift of nothing
- olooney 6y agoI like the way the form is "in situ." Like filling in Mad Libs.
- alexnothingly 6y agoThanks :) I actually borrowed the idea from another company who were using that approach for their contact us form and it seemed like a nice change.
- ibraheemdev 6y agoI'm curious, how many purchases do you get per month?
- frabjoused 6y agoHopefully none.
- alexnothingly 6y agoLet's just put it this way. I still have a full time job.
- _jstreet 6y agoAre you hiring?
- oceliker 6y agoReminds me of what Cards Against Humanity did for Black Friday some years ago: https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/ https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/
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- liquidify 6y agoYou should set it up so that people can send cryptocurrencies that are provably burned. Then you could pay something to no one to send nothing to someone.
- alexnothingly 6y agoHahaha, love it.
- ComputerGuru 6y agoClever. Of course then they wouldn’t be making money. Anyway, what’s truly “provably” burned? Might as well send them an individualized clip of a Lincoln or Jackson being set on fire.
- gruez 6y ago>Anyway, what’s truly “provably” burned? https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/how-to-generate-a-valid-bitcoin-address-for-destroying-bitcoins https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/how-to-gene...
- liquidify 6y agothe genesis block is not spendable
- deweller 6y agoA provably burn address has an improbable chance of having a known private key. Here are well-known burn addresses for bitcoin and ethereum: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1111111111111111111114oLvT2 https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/111111111111111111111... https://etherscan.io/address/0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dead https://etherscan.io/address/0x00000000000000000000000000000... Just send crypto to these addresses and they will be forever lost.
- d1str0 6y agoAlso this one for bitcoin. Just send some bitcoin here and you will totally lose it. Guaranteed. Please. Please send bitcoin here. I promise you won’t get it back. BTC: 33r9rLTE9b5217rbS4PNDWLQdxJ7WutykU
- ComputerGuru 6y agoYour layout is broken on iOS. The text appears above the intro header. https://i.imgur.com/CoUTRvW.png https://i.imgur.com/CoUTRvW.png
- alexnothingly 6y agoThanks, I'll look into it.
- alexnothingly 6y agoShould be fixed now :)
- lukashed 6y agoI was a bit surprised how much metadata Apple includes for this shared picture (in some of the XHR responses). Not only your email address (the same that's on your HN profile so I assume that doesn't hurt) but also what seems to be your device's name ("i" followed by a part of your last name) as well as what looks to be a unique ID of your device and your timezone (are you GMT-6?).
- ComputerGuru 6y agoWow, you're not kidding! I've never used it before but was frustrated by how broken my other choices were and didn't realize how bad that could be. (First choice: imgur. No longer supporting upload from mobile without their app and mandatory sign in. Second choice: DropBox. Their extension is broken and it saved it as a PDF. Then it saved it as a PNG explicitly but the app was making it too hard to get the direct link to the image without using their share sheet and specifying an email address to send to.) (I am indeed GMT -6, for at least some chunk of the year anyway.)
- antoineMoPa 6y agoReminds me of this podcast title I saw yesterday on StackOverflow : "Podcast 303: What would you pay for /dev/null as a service?" [1] [1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/12/podcast-303-what-would-you-pay-for-dev-null-as-a-service/?cb=1 https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/12/podcast-303-what-would... (I did not listen though)
- lkbm 6y agoI love this. It's simple and clever. I hope you make some money. I'm reminded of the "I am Rich" iPhone app[0], but less offensive to the sensibilities. It's just a small art project where the performance art aspect centers around the observer giving the artist money. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
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- x32n23nr 6y agoWhile this may very well be the simplest piece of software that makes money, I have a conceptual bone to pick: If you spend money to make a point, the recipient does mean something.
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- Ashanmaril 6y agoSo basically Reddit Gold
- iakh 6y agoThis is great. Much more altruistic than my project [1] that charges people for nothing in return [1] https://lapse.cc/ https://lapse.cc/
- repartix 6y agoTry flipping it around. Instead of you spending a lot to prove someone means nothing, have them spend a lot to prove they mean something. Check out my Show HN from yesterday.
- somacore 6y agoPlease tell me your purchase confirmation page says "thanks for nothing."
- offtop5 6y agoNothing as a service. NAAS. One wonders , if you can get 20 people to actually use this would you have the most efficient startup ever created.
- cmstoken 6y agoAbsolutely Brilliant!
- jdbiggs 6y agocan you email us? john@gizmodo.com
- raylennon 6y agoUltimately nothing is the best give ever! ;)
- ibraheemdev 6y agoWhy was this flagged?
- rimeice 6y agoMaybe because it all just leads to nothing.
- alexnothingly 6y agoNot sure, ultimately it's just a bit of a silly side project. It's a shame it would get flagged.
- ravroid 6y agoThis is hilarious. Paying money to passive-aggressively insult somebody, I think you may have invented a new market. Has this product generated any revenue yet?
- mh44 6y agoPlease tell me you’re at least if donating the $ to charity!
- trestenhortz 6y agoIf it was giving to charity, and not telling people they are worthless, it might be a good novelty in this world where gift giving has become a meaningless waste of money. “I’m giving you nothing, but some less fortunate kid got school books!” As it stands it just comes across as being mean/nasty.
- waynesonfire 6y agoI'D RATHER GIVE YOU NOTHING THAN PAY FOR YOUR COLLEGE EDUCATION!! types h-t-t-p-s-:-/-/-w-w-w-.-n-o-t-h-...
- domano 6y agoSo did anyone pick the 1000$ option?
- quickthrower2 6y agoLow effort way to make a quick buck
- dailypeeker 6y agoBasically, there are three types of people 1. Who don't use the service($0) 2. Who send $5 2. Who send $1000
- asyrafql 6y agoTell me your MRR please ;p.
- KienLeTrung 6y agocool idea! How do you make money though? putting ads or getting a % of each transact?