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by chewxy 14y ago
I personally would advise charging money for it. You're providing a valuable resource. Experiment with different price points. You said you sold only 6 exercises to 3 people. And yet you have 130 people a day. Assuming very healthy conversi
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Given the scale of the problem (reapers), starting at a Spectre scale is pretty logical. Else you'd have character progression that is too fast
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pray share (microsubscription has been done before as you said). How would you do it?
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You seem to have found the problem by yourself. IMO this would be the trough of sorrow[0] for any startup with advertising as a monetization plan - the growth but no growth phase. In my blog post I mentioned that here there are basically tw
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by chewxy 14y ago
Ever thought of advertorials? Advertorials + rev share would be a good idea had you not listed "moral flexibility" in your list of constraints. I noticed you host John Quiggin. I used to read him a lot. This is how he would use his blog to
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by chewxy 14y ago
Google (the search engine) would be the prime example. A search engine is the service that Google provides, and by virtue of its service, they build their product (audiences) by making the audience self-select into niches (i.e intents). Goo
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And yet, there are still sites that will command a high eCPM. The difference is of course, the audience quality. Like I mentioned in my latest blog post[0], > Real time bidding engines are getting more and more intelligent, and would be
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by chewxy 14y ago
I maintain that if you know what you're doing, advertising is ridiculously profitable. Most of the time though, most startups that use advertising do it because: they don't have other business models, and so advertising is shoe-horned in. O
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by chewxy 14y ago
In otherwords, you made sleepyti.me a loss leader for your personal growth. That is a fantastic way of looking at it. (Also, I <3 SleepyTime and I would pay like $1 a month or something :D)
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by chewxy 14y ago
Interesting coincidence - last night I finished my first post in a series of posts about startup business models. Specificaly, advertising: http://blog.chewxy.com/2013/03/06/startup-business-models-ad... My startup is going thru a series
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Where in the world did you pull a $6 CPM value from?
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Fork the Cookbook ( http://forkthecookbook.com ). It's kinda like github for recipes I guess (the vision for it is much greater: think tumblr + github + instapaper for recipes with ziplistish features) The main project is coming soon :D Wha
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Declining reading levels in the Star Trek series in the 90s(ifweassume.com)
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The Baghdad Battery may have been invented back then, but there is no evidence that it is used for anything more than electroplating in small scales. I think this article is actually quite interesting and given a bit more, could make for ve
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for domains I'm actively using, I use Route53. For domains I'm not actively using, I don't mind name.com is parking.
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Ahhh... I see I was mistaken. Both are projects by Armin. I thought Psyco became PyPy
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Nicholas Tse, a HK actor, has some surprising insights on running startups(youtube.com)
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I would argue that the internet, though it was created in the 20th centuries, really took off after the dot com boom/bust. A period of low causes a flurry of innovation. I think we're still amidst a revolution. And I'm excited where things
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No. Before it was known as PyPy, PyPy was known as Psyco. I remembered playing with it. In Pressyo's internal documentation there were many mentions of using Psyco (we never actually ended up using it)
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Looks like most of it is handled, since most of them lead to a 404 if you click on the issues. Cache hasn't been invalidated I would guess
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BRB... creating html marquee ...
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For what it's worth, it's not new. My latest project, Fork the Cookbook ( http://forkthecookbook.com ) uses a similar system
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I know I sound fairly like a white imperialist bearing the burden and all that, but bear with me. We (i.e. first world countries) created really fantastic consumer devices for our daily lives. #30 showed a Samsung Galaxy S3 being used as a
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Extreme Focus as a business strategy(blogs.hbr.org)
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by chewxy 14y ago
Hey, can't find your email in your profile. Mine's in my profile. I'd love a list of articles. Cheers
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I have written about this before[0][1]. It has to do with the perceived browsing habits of one's users. Let's posit that there are two ways of information search/seeking: the directed searcher, and the explorer. The direct searcher knows wh
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by chewxy 14y ago
No. In my experience it's not the ad companies that ask for them. It's usually the advertiser (i.e. the people advertising) that ask for them. Market forces (i.e. the demand) means that technologies will be made available to them if they're
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I did agonize for a bit when people say things like "the best minds of our century are working on people to click on ads", but I've made peace with myself. I chose advertising instead of finance because I deemed it to be less scumbaggy than
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by chewxy 14y ago
There is a general rule of thumb that a person has to look at/interact with/be cognitively aware of an ad at least 7 times before any action can be taken. Showing ads across sites is just one more way to do that. In fact I would rather have
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by chewxy 14y ago
Why? You visit say... kogan.com.au, they know what fridges you look at. That's intent to buy. You're cookied as #12412214. In the backend, that cookie ID is labeled as FridgeLover. The next website you go to that has an ad slot, when the ad

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