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Hey guys. I worked on this with a couple of friends. We were looking at the number of views posts on the front page of reddit get and trying to calculate ad rev
by rgbrgb 13y ago
Hey guys. I worked on this with a couple of friends. We were looking at the number of views posts on the front page of reddit get and trying to calculate ad revenue generated by this stuff. It seems crazy that top redditors can drive like 1M views and never see a penny--not to mention the fact that most image sharing sites basically claim ownership of your images. Even youtube gives users a cut of ad revenue.
This is an idea we had for making user-generated-content sites in a more user-friendly way.
Let us know what you think.
Edit: https://surfer.io/t1Uft https://surfer.io/t1Uft
- state 13y agoDo you take a cut? How do you make money?
- rgbrgb 13y agoIf it takes off and becomes expensive to run we'll take a cut but right now we're just distributing all the adsense rev to users.
- MzHN 13y agoYou could state that somewhere. I was assuming you take a cut and purposefully didn't mention how big it is.
- rgbrgb 13y agoWill do, thanks for the feedback.
- frakkingcylons 13y agoThis is something Surfer is going to have to state clearly during the sign-up process to avoid being villified by the Reddit and Imgur crowd.
- rgbrgb 13y agoI agree with you but I'm also super confused by that. Imgur does the same thing but their cut is 100%.
- joesb 13y agoMost people feel worse with getting a salary cut than having low salary from start.
- frakkingcylons 13y agoTrue. But when money and the mob mentality is involved, being upfront will protect you.
- chrissnell 13y agoTheir site states that your balance rolls over to the next month when it's < $20 and doesn't pay out until it reaches $20. Presumably they could make interest off of this "float" that's sitting in their account.
- larrys 13y agoA good idea. You might want to include the names of the principles on the about page.
- dublinben 13y ago1. Most of the images posted to the front page of reddit are stolen. 2. Your site will be banned from most of reddit once it becomes clear that you're paying posters.
- nacs 13y agoNot only that but they claim to be going after the Reddit/Imgur crowd but Reddit prefers and uses direct links to images; they rarely link to the full HTML page which is where this site would make any money. Also Imgur has short links not only to the page itself but short links to the actual image. This site's image links look like this: https://surfer-resizer.herokuapp.com/e12e_1394912757948.jpeg https://surfer-resizer.herokuapp.com/e12e_1394912757948.jpeg Not exactly short.
- cmelbye 13y agoTo be fair, their full-HTML image pages seem to load incredibly quickly and are very plain. And that second issue is barely worth mentioning, it's an incredibly easy fix.
- nacs 13y agoIt doesn't really matter how 'plain' the pages are since most people using sites like Reddit only use direct links to image hosts. The fact is you can't monetize directly linked images and its one of the biggest expenses for an image host. Also, 'easy fixes' are irrelevant. Image hosting itself is 'easy' to do. Upload an image, store image, pull image. It's the details like direct linking and the issues like scaling to handle large traffic spikes that separate a good image host from the literally 100+ free image hosts that exist already and the hundreds that have died due to it becoming too costly to maintain.
- Spittie 13y agoImgur is solving this by creating a "community" with comments and up/downvotes, so that user have incentives to open the full page and browse it (this is, by the way, one of the reasons why I don't like imgur at all). They also offer albums, which can obviously be seen only from the full page. OP should look into adding things like that, some contents to encourage users to link/look at the whole page, and not only at the image.