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you missed two crucial steps: d) figure out what readers want and extend to 1000s of online communities e) profit How would you suggest starting a massively

• azifali 14y ago
  I think YC is a wrong place to send in referral links unless of course data proves it otherwise. At least I am glad it isn't one of those "my mom started to work from home" ads :)
• codex 14y ago
  Will members of these thousands of online communities also write content merely as a vehicle to embed referral links? If so, I'm not sure that's socially redeeming. It feels like a content farm operation. At least with legitimate ad supported sites the content is written before the ads (Google figures out what ads to serve after the fact). The content is may still be bait, but it's not designed to shill something specific, as might happen in a system like this.