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Ask HN: Review my new startup: clickthatbutton.com
- scottymac 18y agoI like the simplicity, but not sure how will monetize it? Maybe offer it as widget for other sites? Or perhaps create a FB app? Certainly lots of potential. And people really like clicking buttons.
- Hates_ 18y ago"Go ahead, click the button... That'll be ten million dollars."
- brk 18y agoUnless I'm missing something, that's not a "startup" it's a webpage with a clickable button. What's the point? What's the business model? (seriously).
- trevorturk 18y agoWell, I've always been a fan of the 37signals school of thought around bringing simplicity to web applications. You know - the whole "Getting Real" thing. The way I see it, this has a better business model than a lot of web startups nowadays. At the very least, we've got a slow "burn rate" seeing as how we've spent about 5 hours on the project. As for generating revenue? I think we've got a while before we have to worry about that. We're more focused on scaling the systems than anything right now. Over 100k clicks on day one? Here's to a successful launch!
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoThis took you five hours? Seriously?
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- mixmax 18y agoPhotoshopping a nice button takes longer than you think...
- callmeed 18y agoAt least your main competitor gets ad revenue: http://www.instantrimshot.com/ http://www.instantrimshot.com/
- trevorturk 18y agoShit. I'll have to talk to the CEO about this. We should have done more market research.
- andyn 18y agoDon't forget its sister site: http://www.sadtrombone.com/ http://www.sadtrombone.com/
- staunch 18y agoI already use instantrimshot on a daily basis. Now this one. More than I use Facebook...
- tlrobinson 18y agoI wouldn't worry, your button is much nicer looking than theirs (it's inverted, wtf?)
- brk 18y ago37 signals provides products that people pay for and get value from. Your button adds no value, has no stickyness, and is not something people will pay for. I think your "product" here is just creative trolling.
- trevorturk 18y agoMaybe it would help if you thought of it as an art project instead. In any case - and I hope this doesn't come off as trolling - isn't creativity exactly the sort of thing us hackers should be striving for? If you measure success in terms of "mak[ing] something people want" then I'd call this a success, if only a small one. For whatever reason, people sure do seem to enjoy clicking that button!
- trapper 18y agoCreativity? http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enNZ291&q=ajax+counter&btnG=Search&meta= http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enNZ291... google: ajax counter.
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- kahseng 18y agoSell it to tipjoy :)
- rokhayakebe 18y agoOr to Staples.
- thomasmallen 18y agoBrilliant.
- tlrobinson 18y agoGoogle Killer.
- dmix 18y agoTechcrunch, is that you?
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- immad 18y agoI didn't click the button. I didn't want to. Too many people had done it already
- rksprst 18y agoI clicked it and when I found out others have already clicked it I felt cheap and used.
- swombat 18y agoI clicked it several times. The fact that other people had clicked it too made me feel like I belong to a community, like there are people out there who care about me and my button-clicking.
- jeroen 18y agoI clicked it, and then I wanted to know how my clicking compared to other people. Unfortunately, there are no stats.
- run4yourlives 18y agoWell, your 15 minutes should be up any time now...
- stevesmith155 18y agoSorry, but :yawn:
- ram1024 18y agoi admit it, i'm a clicker... it was just too much for me. i'm suing you for rehab therapy now to cure my aclicktion. they say you haven't succeeded as a business until you're sued. congratulations, give me your money now
- ideamonk 18y agoi clicke 250 without stopping... whats wrong! and checkout the speed at which counter is running... while biggies like facebook and orkut try so hard to engage users into social networking etc... this simple clickthatbutton has done it with amazing simplicity! wow!
- jacobscott 18y agoThere's a fine line between irony/parody and wasting everyone's time...
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoSomewhere there's a real startup who posted here and nobody upvoted or commented about their work. I'm sure this is pressing their buttons about now.
- bigthboy 18y ago<grunt> bigthboy not amused... buttons make bigthboy angry! <roar>... but in all honesty, what is the true point behind this? I am aware of people's addiction to press buttons, but if you can convince someone to pay you in order to press a button then you've got something. Without that, I really just don't think this is anything more than a time-sink for those who are procrastinating, and most certainly not a start-up. =P
- mstefff 18y agowhy would anyone come back to this..what the hell..i dont get it
- darkxanthos 18y agoNo, you do. That's the problem.
- tortilla 18y agoNeeds more cowbell.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agomuch more (For those missing the joke, http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1017105/more_cowbell/ http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1017105/more_cowbell/ )
- aaroneous 18y ago"10087 clicks from you... Thank You"
- ryan-allen 18y agoSweet, all you need is some venture capital and you're on your way to the big time!
- jbert 18y agoI realise it's a gag. But... Have the site sponsored by different people each day, and record the number of clicks on that day. Keep an archive, make it competitive. e.g. 30th October is Obama day (just an example - not partisan), click to show your support! Sponsor pays some rate per click (or just to hire the site for the day). As others have mentioned, your button would appear in many places (facebook widget, etc), so that would add some value to the potential sponsors. Of course, they could put up their own button, but that wouldn't get them into your archives or the kudos of having the one and only 'clickthatbutton.com' buzz. I don't think I'm being serious. But then, it's not that much crazier than the million-dollar homepage.
- sachinag 18y agoOur logo is a button. I'd sponsor you for a day.
- bigthboy 18y agoAll good ideas of directions to take this, imo. Now that's insight. The have a different sponsor every day is something I thought of while I was making my pointless post (see bottom of this page) but neglected to mention.
- ph0rque 18y agoHmmm... I think you should definitely go after the enterprise market.
- icey 18y agoI don't get it.
- tlrobinson 18y agoSo, why are you sending the coordinates of each click back to the server? I'm sure it would make a nice looking heat map, but is there some other reason?
- acro 18y agoSending the coordinates is the standard http behavior in the case of image submit buttons.
- tlrobinson 18y agoDoh. That's a pretty good reason.
- tlrobinson 18y agoI cheated: while true; do curl -d submit.x=1 -d submit.y=1 -b clickthatbutton=10521 http://clickthatbutton.com/; echo; done edit: and apparently you (or my ISP) throttle ;)
- lpgauth 18y agoWe need to get this code threaded...
- tlrobinson 18y ago#!/bin/sh n=10 while [ $n -ge 0 ]; do sh -c "while true; do curl -d submit.x=1 -d submit.y=1 -b clickthatbutton=10521 http://clickthatbutton.com/; echo; done" & n=`expr $n - 1` done Change "n=10" to change the number of concurrent requests. Anyone have a better method?
- jcapote 18y agoNice approach, My friend and I were trying to do the same thing. http://juliocapote.com/post/56866975/so-you-want-to-click-that-button http://juliocapote.com/post/56866975/so-you-want-to-click-th... bookmarklet version: http://ubergibson.com/~alan/bmforge/ http://ubergibson.com/~alan/bmforge/
- trevorturk 18y agoIs hackthatbutton.com taken?
- jaydub 18y agoC/MPI!
- vecter 18y agoThank you for finally emphasizing the fact that not every website is a startup.
- thomasmallen 18y agoUpvote this if you feel like it. What do you think of my new startup? Got the idea at http://clickthatbutton.com/ http://clickthatbutton.com/
- tptacek 18y agoNot sure about the colors, maybe invest in a designer and a copywriter, and did you know the button was SQL Injectable? You're off to a great start, but I worry about Facebook and Google turning this into a feature instead of a product. Consider the enterprise.
- symptic 18y agoMake an API or an app for Facebook/Myspace or a widget for Wordpress and watch it spread. ;)
- forensic 18y agoI like it. I gave it around 180 clicks before I left the page. It was a good experience.
- railsjedi 18y agoshoulda entered this into railsrumble!
- trevorturk 18y agoRails!? That doesn't scale. This is all Erlang.
- iuguy 18y agoHi, I'd like to invest in your startup. Would you be willing to implement Social networking features, file sharing (with intelligent auto-removal of copyright infringing material) and live micro-macro-socio-splogging? Given that you spent 5 hours on this so far, I reckon you'll be able to implement these features in another 10. I'm willing to invest $5 for 40%. Interested?
- andhapp 18y agoThis is at the same level of madness as "I am rich" iPhone application except that application had a cost model to it unlike this one...
- rrival 18y agoThis is going straight to the front page of TechCrunch!
- m_eiman 18y agoHm, looks familiar. Mine has chat, though. http://click-a-billion.com/ http://click-a-billion.com/
- matt1 18y agoThousands of visitors and it still says "1 clicks" -- doh.
- mcu 18y agoYour button is bad and you should feel bad. Is this really what Hacker News has come to?
- tjic 18y agoA+++++++++++++++++++++ Would click again.
- djm 18y agoI assume this is a joke. Having said that, if you are creative you may well be able to cash in on this considering the attention that your site appears to be getting. I remember, a few years ago, some kid made a page that sold ads to people for $1 per pixel on the page. The page contained nothing other than these ads. The kid was trying to make $1m and he did it - enough people were willing to pay a dollar or few dollars to be a part of his idea even if they didn't really benefit from it. I'd look at adding advertising to the page - I'd love to watch you make a million from a page with a button on it!
- aasarava 18y agoAnyone else remember "Button, Button" from the Twilight Zone, where a couple is offered $200K if they push a button on a box. The only catch is that if they push it, someone they don't know will die? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone) Creepy.
- RudeDude 18y agothis shit is about as cool as a steaming shit coming out of my ass(whilst shitting from a hovering helicopter) and landing inside an active volcano. If you think this is an actual business model, you sir, are fucking delusional. the jig is up, fraud