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www.faucetbuilder.com (http://www.faucetbuilder.com)

Background:

I’ve been following this beautiful faucet world for some time and finally had the courage to build my own a few weeks back. I went searching for a service that would make things easy. There were a few options:

• Script services - Usually charge a fee on deposits from 3% to 10% and you need to put money in in advance
• For hire services - People who will build the faucet for you, but you have to pay up to 1btc :S
• API integration - Free and reliable but requires some technical expertise

So after some time I thought there was no ideal solution — i decided to create my own :)

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So I’d like to introduce you to FaucetBuilder, a FREE FAUCET SCRIPT with the following features:

www.faucetbuilder.com (http://www.faucetbuilder.com)

• Step-by-step script with instructions how to create your faucet
• 6 languages (English, Russian, Spanish, Ukranian, Portuguese, Thai, Filipino)
• Integrates with Xapo API so your users can get paid via email or btc address
• Threshold so your users can choose when to withdraw (avoid dust payments)
• No minimum deposits for your faucet to be operational (just need money in your wallet that you use to pay users)
• Migration guide from other paid scripts (faucetbox and micro wallet)
• Did i say FREE? :)

Why am I doing this for free?

I am always thinking about how I personally contribute to the growth of bitcoin.
I think faucets are a great way to showcase some of the best features of bitcoin — micropayments, speed, cross-border transactions, etc… — and is also a way for people to own a small bits of bitcoin without going through an exchange.

So… what do you think? I would love your feedback on how I can improve, what to change, etc…

Btw, I think I mentioned before that this is all free and I did it as a hobby. If you build your faucet with this or find it useful, please help me by donating some bits :)

Cool graphic. Did you make that yourself?

What a cool service! I have my own hosting, and have installed a few basic scripts, so I'm going to go and try this out.

eta:  Ooops! I put in a name & eMail, and all I got back was a black page.

eta: worked the next time.

I always welcome new services to help us faucet owners.

I will check it out soon and post my review.

good one , i'm gonna try it out

I wish I did but I asked a good friend with design experience to help me.
Google images doesnt have great pics when you search for faucets hehe

hmmm.. i wonder why it did not go through the first time. I will test it out.
Thanks for the heads up!

Thanks! Much appreciated :)

Do FaucetBuilder also support "popular" and "non popular" altcoins other than Bitcoin?

PS: Your website should have a title to make it look more professional. :P

interesting project.

i see a good future

Nice!..
free faucet builder!
i think the steps are too complicated for a newbie (me)...
even if you have gave the instructions..

I've thought about doing altcoins but wanted to see if I can get traction with bitcoin only first. There are many things that I think can be improved... like maybe some cool design templates and stuff. ALtho I would need help for that

Can you explain why there is the needs for the withdrawal threshold?

I'm trying to find more information about the dust payments but havent found much info. Isnt it better for the user to withdraw earlier and for the faucet to have a higher withdrawal? That way people take less money out.

its a nice service, it you move your thread to service section you may get more interested users in this
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0

Thanks! I just added it. I had it on Service Announcements and the mods moved it over to the Micro Earnings section. Hopefully it can stay in the services. Appreciate your help!

So with Faucetbuilder you have 2 options to withdraw:

1. If you have a Xapo account or dont have a bitcoin address you can give your email and the btc gets sent instant without miner fees (even 0 miner fees) so you can withdraw down to 1 satoshi. In other words, the payments does not go through the blockchain, but instead through Xapo's ledger.
2. If you dont want to use Xapo you can enter a bitcoin address and then this payment goes through the blockchain. Since it goes through the blockchain it needs at least 6 confirmations and needs to be above 55 bits.

Now you think, well of course the user wants to withdraw as soon as they get 55 bits instead of waiting to accumulate. The thing is that to stop flooding the blockchain and because of the multiple inputs to get something as small as 55 bits, the user who chooses option #2 will pay a higher miner fee the next payment he does.

So if you know you are a faucet power user it's good to have a higher withdrawal limit so that you dont have to pay high miner fees. Makes sense?

Thanks for the explanation.
This is new to me.  ???

No problem. Happy to help.

I am impressed by how many Russian guys are logging in. There is a lot of faucet activity there!

thanks for the script, I have made my faucet at http://sumbercoin.hol.es/ :D

Awesome! I just made 2400 sat. Looks good and thanks for trying it out.
My next move if activity starts to pick up is to work on new design templates. What do you think? If you have some cool faucets that you think have nice designs let me know and i can model them after that.

I'd like to have new design template in my faucet. I will be happy if you have new templates for this faucet... ;D
it would be cool... ;D

Hi,

Nice work !
I tryed http://sumbercoin.hol.es/ and check if it paid on Faucetbuilder.

I suggest you to show, like on faucetbox, the last 15 transactions or more for faucets users when they checked there adress. So they can verify if the faucet is really paying if they dont use xapo.
Other suugest, make a link to Faucetbuilder for the users after claiming, for verify the payment. Like on faucetbox faucets.
You have to think about a faucets users friendly page for see the results of the claims, because if they like it they will more easy use faucets done with your script, and faucet owners will more easy move from faucetbox if they can keep the same traffic !

I own http://thecoincow.pw/ and I think about moving to your script in the future if you improve about that.

Keep the good work.

This is really good feedback. Thank you! I was so worried to make a good service for faucets that I need to remind myself to think of the user too! I will make these changes over the next few weekends. If you have other suggestions let me know. I really appreciate it!

I have some time this week to make some changes.  ;D
What would you like to see?

* New design templates for faucet
* Design templates with more (or less) ad banners
* More details when non-Xapo users view accumulation threshold
* Something else?

Any thoughts?

Hello friends,

Faucetbuilder has received some updates:

-More sanitizing on SQL queries.
-Improvement on table creation script to be able to execute it with the
new created users.
-Security tips improved

The guys who have downloaded the script will have received an email with these updates. Let me know what you think!

We have made new updates to our script to improve security. If you have a second please check it out and let us know your thoughts!

You should place a list of faucets using this script to test and create a public API

Thanks for the suggestion. My idea is to start offering a faucet list, although im a bit worried about the work that goes into it to monitor many faucets and constantly add/remove.

this look nice i will try it for sure , since i'm building my own faucet, and will report back, thanks for you hard work  ;D

How do referrals work? Is it just ?blah=receivingaddress, or is it an ID from the database?

any news?

Yes it's receiving address. You can choose.

it would be nice if you can make it a id because when user share ref. link then email also shared .  Also add email/btc address blocking featuere so if owner detects any multi account or bot user he can block him.

I cannot access faucetbuilder.com. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

Same here .

For me too. Site is offline  :(

Is your website still down?

Faucet owner needs is more Security Improvement to avoid bots and scammer.

After building our faucet you will host them? do you proved us the source?   

That website is closed but i have a copy here  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1365803.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1365803.0)