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Show HN: Vadlue a social ad search engine

• diminish 14y ago
  Dear HN hackers, would like to hear your constructive or negative feedback and suggestions about our startup idea Vadlue at http://www.vadlue.com/ http://www.vadlue.com/. Ads are everywhere yet mostly impossible to interact with, except clicking. Ads only appear to you, when automatic bidding algorithms want you to see them. Vadlue wants users to be able to search, browse, share and review ads. Vadlue indexes ads and landing pages, publicized by Robads standards http://www.robads.org/ http://www.robads.org/ or shared through browser extensions. 1. We have 2 extremes going ahead, to be an Anti-Google, an ad search engine that also indexes landing pages or to be a Pinterest like social platform for ads. What do you think would make better sense for our idea? 2. Any ideas on getting traction?
  • krapp 14y ago
    Good luck. You might have a pretty steep hill to climb with this one. In my experience, users consider ads to be the antithesis of content ... for the most part, they don't want to interact with ads at all, much less choose to interact more. Also you appear to have an issue in your templates where divs and links aren't nesting properly, like <div><a><img></div></a> instead of <div><a><img></a></div>
    • diminish 14y ago
      thanks a lot for both feedbacks, especially the anti-content remark.
      • krapp 14y ago
        That's the reason viral marketing even exists, to present advertising to users in a way that doesn't carry the stigma of being advertising. It looks like you're wanting to do the opposite. If you can figure out a way to accomplish the same trick with banner ads, and get people to treat overt advertising as something fun, and actually generate revenue, the world will beat a path to your door as they say.