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> Who would pay $1 for getting a chuckle out of a meme? That sort of feels like the core issue. Why even try to monetise a page like this?
by iamacyborg 6y ago
> Who would pay $1 for getting a chuckle out of a meme?
That sort of feels like the core issue. Why even try to monetise a page like this?
- VBprogrammer 6y agoIn the article he mentioned this; he was worried about the hosting costs. Thankfully his host got a laugh out of it and donated the hosting cost and he has in turn donated any proceeds.
- iamacyborg 6y agoRight, but if you're incurring significant hosting costs for a static site in 2021 then you're doing something wrong.
- FalconSensei 6y agounless you have images?
- filoleg 6y agoCloudflare Pages[0] claims to have unlimited bandwidth, even for their free tier. 0. https://pages.cloudflare.com/#plans https://pages.cloudflare.com/#plans
- tomjohnneill 6y agoIn hindsight, you're right. And obviously I didn't. However at the time, it was the uncertainty as a result of never having done something like this that made me worried.
- ampdepolymerase 6y agoIf you can build a PaaS around it like Giphy and sell user data, sure.
- iamacyborg 6y agoYeah but Giphy's a full on product, not just a static single page site.
- rchaud 6y agoHosting costs money. Although for someone who's go-to stack for a meme website is NextJS + React could probably afford to fork over $70 for 15 minutes of Internet fame.
- iamacyborg 6y agoHosting costs pennies (if even that) if you’re just serving static html content.