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The One Million Project: Showcasing the power of the internet
- thelanceleblanc 14y agowow, bold as hell and ballsy but cool idea...i want in
- joshferrara 14y agoRight? I'll be interested to see how far this goes. What the heck, I'm donating!
- hamburglar 14y agoYeah, I'm sure you are. :) The sad thing is that this will probably work. He's not going to make a million bucks, but I'm sure the number of idiots who will donate will make it worth his while.
- samwillis 14y agoYou are a new account, created 3 min after the submission, showing support and encouraging people to give money to some unknown person. Sock puppet?
- kunai 14y agoI'm in. $10.
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoI am also trying to make $1M for no reason, could you donate me $10?
- kunai 14y agoThat depends on the cause... What are you trying to prove? My original comment was tongue-in-cheek. I am not going to donate any money to a (questionable) organization that's not going to publish what it is going to do with it. I'd rather spend it on something more noble. Like giving it to a charity.
- jdoliner 14y agoFor some reason this doesn't sit well with me. We've seen the internet used for some pretty amazing charity purposes before but I feel like internet citizens have a limited interest in rallying together and doing so for its own sake will make it less likely to happen for other's sake.
- pilom 14y agoIf they released the code they used to make the page, basically for the stripe and social button integration, I'd probably donate.
- nollidge 14y agoWhat the fuck?
- citricsquid 14y agoHow many would choose to give $25 instead? If you want to do some good with $25: http://kiva.org http://kiva.org
- jakozaur 14y agoWow, last time at least they were selling one pixel for 1$. Now world advances 1$ for nothing? http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
- notmarkus 14y agoThis is the worst thing I've seen all day.
- samwillis 14y agoHmm, what's to say that they haven't inflated their stat of how much has been donated in order to encourage more people to just give them money?
- sabalaba 14y agoWait you mean they're trying to manipulate us with "Social Proof"?
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoWhat if they donate all the money to the KKK or something?
- calinet6 14y agoAbsolutely. Fucking. Genius. I wish I had thought of this.
- codgercoder 14y agoLike many (any?) new environments, the Internet is rife with fools and charlatans. They make an ecosystem, in their own way.
- NateDad 14y agoI gotta get me one of these pages. I'm gonna call mine "The Ten Million Project".
- PavlovsCat 14y agoThere aren’t any plans for the money, because this isn’t about the money. It’s about accomplishing a goal. And that goal is "raise 1 million dollars". So yes, it's about the money, about nothing but.
- benwerd 14y agoIt's like the Million Dollar Homepage, except more brazen. The goal seems to be to raise a million dollars. The secondary goal seems to be to treat the Internet like a basket of schmucks. My advice: save your money and give it to a good cause instead.
- businessleads 14y agoWould be clever if in return for your donation of $100 they let you set up a blank-slate mirror on the domain of your choice. I call therealtenmillionproject.com.
- joshferrara 14y agoAnd now there seems to be a decent bit of actual happening now. People are really buying it?