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This was one of my dumbest failures: http://www.dudefactory.com/ http://www.dudefactory.com/ (it has no SSL cert, it uses Flash which is 110% dead) It was la
by kingcharles 5y ago
This was one of my dumbest failures:
http://www.dudefactory.com/ http://www.dudefactory.com/
(it has no SSL cert, it uses Flash which is 110% dead)
It was launched at the height of AIM/MSN Messenger/etc. I thought we could charge $1/£1/€1 per picture.
Two things: none of our target market had money (you could pay by SMS as well as card, but no-one was doing that), and the avatars just weren't attractive - the women wanted ones that looked like dolls, not weird cartoons. Tried pivoting to AdSense supported and make about $30 a month IIRC.
- astrange 5y agoThis is https://picrew.me https://picrew.me which is popular enough.
- kingcharles 5y agoThat's neat, thanks for the link.
- arsenico 5y agoYou were just so ahead of the whole NFT curve.
- kingcharles 5y agoYeah, 20 years later and Paris Hilton would have been showing off her Dudette on talk shows.