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Title: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 12, 2014, 09:41:07 AM This is not your average pixel advertising site!
Advertise your business on our new pixel advertising site. Watch the clickthroughs come rolling in... in real-time! https://the-million-bitcoin-homepage.com/ We also donate earnings to charity, and users can win bitcoin! Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: Bitcoins101 on February 12, 2014, 02:30:36 PM Now that's a first.
Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: CryptoPanda on February 12, 2014, 02:39:55 PM Does it actually still work?
Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 13, 2014, 08:17:55 AM It does indeed.
Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: farlack on February 14, 2014, 02:10:46 AM Now that's a first. www.milliondollarhomepage.com No its not. Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 14, 2014, 09:04:44 AM Yeah there have been a million clones of the million dollar homepage.
Ours blows them all out the water! http://the-million-bitcoin-homepage.com/ Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: b!z on February 14, 2014, 11:27:00 AM Now that's a first. www.milliondollarhomepage.com No its not. I think he was being sarcastic. Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 14, 2014, 11:54:51 AM Now that's a first. www.milliondollarhomepage.com No its not. I think he was being sarcastic. Really??!! :o Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: hostmaster on February 14, 2014, 11:56:16 AM Good idea but very bad practice. At least you can afford your own domain 10 dollars... if you dont trust project why you not spend 10 dollars and at thee same time ask from people to pay...
Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: hostmaster on February 14, 2014, 12:02:21 PM Good idea but very bad practice. At least you can afford your own domain 10 dollars... if you dont trust project why you not spend 10 dollars and at thee same time ask from people to pay... ;D EDIT seemed me as sub domain of free services at first sight (blogspot or freehomepage) let me correct have a good luck :Pthx Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 14, 2014, 12:11:38 PM Thanks, I need good luck.
I wish I could have grabbed, themillionbitcoinhomepage.com but instead I could only get the-million-bitcoin-homepage.com I've spent a lot of money on hosting, SSL certificates, and advertising. There is nothing in the prize balance, yet, because more needs to be spent. Currently my reserve balances stand like this: block_earnings | 0.12661733 BTC charity | 0.03617650 BTC gold | 0.01808816 BTC Charity payout happens at 1 BTC, gold will be split into 0.01 BTC blocks when it goes over 0.1 BTC I was hoping the thought of donating to charity would have been enough, but clearly not. It's good value for money advertising given the clickthrough rate on the current ads. Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 14, 2014, 12:19:44 PM Please note that I sent 0.1 BTC up to prepopulate with some example blocks, so my earnings are actually ~ 0.08 BTC right now.
Thought I'd say that before people start crying "GREED!" 20% to charity and 10% to the user is quite fair IMO. Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 14, 2014, 12:37:47 PM All the example blocks I put up have expired also and so the 3 blocks up there are genuine purchases.
I was quite pleased to see them go in, easily pleased clearly. Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: runam0k on February 14, 2014, 01:26:48 PM The million satoshi homepage might have been an easier target. :)
Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 14, 2014, 01:33:56 PM What u saying brah!?
I want my 4.7% of all bitcoins that ever will be! :P (srsly face: The aim was never to make $1m, nowhere near that, I'll be happy if I reach my 50BTC and manage to give 10 or 20 BTC away to the charities) Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: muldoonski on February 14, 2014, 11:06:45 PM Thanks, I need good luck. I've spent a lot of money on hosting, SSL certificates, and advertising. You host your domain with amazon (which includes the SSL certificates) - that's cheap. Where are you advertising? This reeks of someone taking a years old idea and trying to grab some btc off it. Sent to a "random charity"? Hmmm Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 14, 2014, 11:49:50 PM God this is really getting boring, please behave more constructively... instead of posting your vacuous and destructive criticism.
If I was purely in it for the money I'd say "0% to charity and 0% for users to win back", that's not the case here. I genuinely care about fair redistribution of wealth in the world, I made this site as a microcosm/metaphor of Bitcoin itself, that was the underlying principle. It is not your average pixel advertising site, this one blows the rest out the water! Look at the clickthrough rate so far, it's damn cheap compared to any other ads (facebook, reddit) you get, plus you know that your audience is bitcoin-centric... that does have value. Trying to "grab" money would mean a cheap shot at it, instead I've put months of work and achieved a very polished result. I'm proud of it, none of the empty criticism has put a dent in my pride (but it does offend me, hence my passionate reply). The website is to act as a portal for many Bitcoin businesses, small and large alike. They may regulate how much they wish to spend on advertising (by the block lifetime), and if they want to spend less can buy blocks off to the edges of the map. They are given instant and real-time feedback on block clicks and visits, which would help them determine whether a continued campaign is necessary. My project has the capability to support: website/app developers, radio shows, youtube channels, sex workers (Bitcoin does have a strong liberalist movement behind it after all), anyone wanting to link to their portfolio/resume, etc. Natural curiosity will lead to much of the grid being explored, once populated this will be very fun indeed. Any block which is spitting out ? icons is being inspected by the current visitors. Hosting is not "cheap", I'm paying $100/month for it so that it can absorb spikes in traffic. I've spent money on the domain, SSL certs, the CDN traffic to delivery js/css/fonts/images, and also a lot of my time. I've spent money on the advertising campaigns. All this and I am not here demanding anything back other than basic decency and respect. Nobody is forcing you to use my website... So go away, and don't come back posting here until you have something of value to say. Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 14, 2014, 11:59:43 PM Thanks, I need good luck. I've spent a lot of money on hosting, SSL certificates, and advertising. You host your domain with amazon (which includes the SSL certificates) - that's cheap. Where are you advertising? This reeks of someone taking a years old idea and trying to grab some btc off it. Sent to a "random charity"? Hmmm Also... wat? Domain/SSL cert is from GoDaddy, servers from Amazon. How is that cheap... and yes... random charity indeed... from schema.sql... Code: CREATE TABLE charity_addresses( and from charity_payout worker process the query is... Code: SELECT address FROM charity_addresses OFFSET random()*(SELECT count(*)-1 FROM charity_addresses) LIMIT 1 Now please get lost. Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: predictbits on February 15, 2014, 08:35:27 PM Great job on the UX!
Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 15, 2014, 11:35:02 PM Thank you! :D
Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: b!z on February 17, 2014, 08:30:48 AM > I'm paying $100/month for it so that it can absorb spikes in traffic.
lol Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 17, 2014, 12:17:21 PM That's to cover a single medium instance. Elastic load balancing would be a better way to reduce expenses by scaling in a more granular fashion, but this particular project doesn't justify using it.
Laugh all you like, but you've just joined the immature crowd by doing so. Well done. Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: techgeek on February 19, 2014, 07:05:59 PM Lack of R&D? Some one else is doing this, but not in this format.
Title: Re: [Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin Post by: The_Fly on February 19, 2014, 07:08:03 PM Interesting. Could you please be more specific.
This soft launch has steered the path, I'm in the process of implementing some key changes and in a few days I will be making an announcement regarding the site. |