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Out of curiosity, do you make a lot of money from the ads? I find small niche sites like this to be somewhat less nice to use because of the ads, especially on

Out of curiosity, do you make a lot of money from the ads? I find small niche sites like this to be somewhat less nice to use because of the ads, especially on mobile where they take up lots of limited real estate. And it seems to me that they can’t be generating that much money given the niche topic. But maybe I’m wrong!

dgacmu 3y ago
No. I should prune them, honestly. I earn about $100 / month on them; I played around with it at some point mostly to understand the advertising ecosystem. Half of the links to Amazon are broken at this point. My hosting costs are about $20 per month now thanks to optimization to the search engine and offloading larger objects and pi fragments to cloudflare. (Used to be higher) I do want the site to be at least "self-maintaining", though.
- darkwater 3y ago
  (Sorry uBlock user here so I Saw no ads) Maybe you can try to setup a custom t-shirt with the desired number in the Pi sequence, like the original article has. Thanks again for the site!
  - dgacmu 3y ago
    That's a fun idea. Thanks! Hmmm. And very welcome. It turns 25 this year, which is really weird - it's older than my students! grins
    - saghm 3y ago
      You should show the site to your students by using it to look for the birth date of your site :)