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Another huge bandwidth consumer is http://www.ytmnd.com http://www.ytmnd.com It's a site that lets you upload a gif image, a sound, and some text. You pick a
by palish 19y ago
Another huge bandwidth consumer is http://www.ytmnd.com http://www.ytmnd.com
It's a site that lets you upload a gif image, a sound, and some text. You pick a subdomain (for example, "something"). Then it puts all those on http://something.ytmnd.com http://something.ytmnd.com. Each day, around 100,000 of these are viewed, so it chews up a huge amount of bandwidth.
Max is the owner of that site, and he's been living off of the advertising revenue at about the same living status as someone working full time at McDonald's. Last I heard, the advertising pulls in about $20k per month, and the bandwidth takes about $18k per month. He works all day and night on it.. it's amazing. I don't know why he hasn't sought investors or anything like that, but it's a huge community (even though it consists largely of teenagers).
Any investors who like investing in that sort of thing might want to contact him.
- staunch 19y agoThe last thing we need is ytmnd getting bigger.
- palish 19y agoMm.. There's some truly hilarious stuff on there. You just have to look for it, which takes some patience. For example, http://shockingcats.ytmnd.com/ http://shockingcats.ytmnd.com/ ... C'mon, you'd have to be dead to not be slightly amused. :) Some just make you think. http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/ http://atinyglimpse.ytmnd.com/ and http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/ http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/ are two examples. They may not be 100% accurate, but they do make you stop and think about things. Others present issues in an unbiased way, letting you be the judge. http://timbalandtempest.ytmnd.com/ http://timbalandtempest.ytmnd.com/ is one. Like it or not, the guys composing YTMND's community are our youth. Their opinion matters, and they create things they care about.
- steve 19y agoalways wondered how that was working out for the owners.
- palish 19y agoThe whole story's at http://ytmnd.com/news/?news_id=69 http://ytmnd.com/news/?news_id=69 .. it's pretty interesting.