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I love what Louis C.K. has done, but if you read his description of the process you'll note he says he spend about 35k on the platform he used to sell his video

I love what Louis C.K. has done, but if you read his description of the process you'll note he says he spend about 35k on the platform he used to sell his video. I'd love to see an open source version of this, so that other people can do the same without having the 35k up front to pay a web developer.

prawn 15y ago
I got the impression that some portion of that $35k was on hosting, and would be considerably cheaper for a smaller player? If you were smallfry wanting to sell a digital asset, you could do it for a lot, lot less than $35k obviously.
- redthrowaway 15y ago
  Also, he had not only to pay for the massive amounts of traffic, but also ensure the website could handle it without bogging down. That's not really a concern, here.
dasil003 15y ago
There are tons of open source software that can easily be configured to do such a campaign with no programming. You could even preconfigure a distribution to minimize the work further. The problem is then you end up with a bunch of cookie-cutter sites that look and feel sloppy and poorly optimized for the particular promotion. Also, if you happen to have a Louis C.K. size success you better have some know-how in your corner or your site will go down and your profits are flushed straight down the toilet. Sorry to direct this at you since I realize it's not your point, but I'm also responding to prior assertions that Louis C.K. overpaid for his site. No, he paid for an extremely professional and impeccably thought-out user experience that operated flawlessly at a non-trivial scale and he got it. It didn't check all the web developer hipster snob boxes, but there's no denying it was extraordinarily successful in meeting its purpose. There's just no way to open-source that level of custom-tailored detail.

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I love what Louis C.K. has done, but if you read his description of the process you'll note he says he spend about 35k on the platform he used to sell his video

by kennywinker 15y ago

prawn 15y ago
I got the impression that some portion of that $35k was on hosting, and would be considerably cheaper for a smaller player? If you were smallfry wanting to sell a digital asset, you could do it for a lot, lot less than $35k obviously.
- redthrowaway 15y ago
  Also, he had not only to pay for the massive amounts of traffic, but also ensure the website could handle it without bogging down. That's not really a concern, here.
dasil003 15y ago
There are tons of open source software that can easily be configured to do such a campaign with no programming. You could even preconfigure a distribution to minimize the work further. The problem is then you end up with a bunch of cookie-cutter sites that look and feel sloppy and poorly optimized for the particular promotion. Also, if you happen to have a Louis C.K. size success you better have some know-how in your corner or your site will go down and your profits are flushed straight down the toilet. Sorry to direct this at you since I realize it's not your point, but I'm also responding to prior assertions that Louis C.K. overpaid for his site. No, he paid for an extremely professional and impeccably thought-out user experience that operated flawlessly at a non-trivial scale and he got it. It didn't check all the web developer hipster snob boxes, but there's no denying it was extraordinarily successful in meeting its purpose. There's just no way to open-source that level of custom-tailored detail.