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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: More ideas than capital
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on: June 12, 2012, 01:18:06 AM
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Here's my conundrum. I have all these ideas for Bitcoin based businesses, but neither the programming skills, nor the cash to hire programmers. What I can do is create a skeleton type website (like the one below) with basic web 1.0 skills, but right now I don't want a bunch of crappy looking websites. I am thinking of hiring filipino web developers, that would at least get me started, but even that can get expensive. I can create a GLBSE IPO or several and get funds for programmers for each site or several at once. Some of the websites will be moneymakers, some are just plain needed and may or may not make money. So should I just build crappy websites and build them slowly as I can afford, or should I look for investors?
Twitter bootstrap is your friend if you want pretty-by-default websites. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Ideal community to introduce Bitcoin to?
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on: June 11, 2012, 01:56:11 AM
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Consider how Meze Grill, probably the best known retail merchant to accept bitcoin, didn't even have enough customers wishing to pay using bitcoins that they bothered to reinstate a method to accept bitcoins following the MyBitcoin mess. The staff at Whiskey Dicks, the only restaurant in Florida to advertise that they accept bitcoins, doesn't know how to accept bitcoin for payment and can do so only when the owner is around.
Don't you mean, "never bothered to reinstate a method to accept bitcoins following the MyBitcoin mess"? A merchant isn't likely to look into adding bitcoins as a payment method until there are guarantees, such as those that come from the business' customers asking if they can pay using bitcoins. In a normal cross section of the population, there generally just isn't a concentration of bitcoiners sufficient to justify the expense to accept bitcoin (in terms of hardware but also for time to train staff, etc.).
Which is why it's a good idea to concentrate bitcoiners if possible. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Bitcoin Weekly will be coming back
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on: June 10, 2012, 08:11:33 PM
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http://bitcoinweekly.com will be coming back soon! I will start publishing essay and analysis. Right now, the site is now revamped with a more minimalist style using twitter bootstrap and the writing system is up and running. Unlike our competitor at bitcoinmagazine.net, the content don't start halfway down the screen. There are no urgency to sign up on the emailing list, follow us buttons for the various social networks, people bragging about how many points they earn from the magazine, or any of that nonsense. We have a simple header with navigation list.....and the content(Random articles, comment section, ads, and the footer). Everything that is distracting is down at the bottom. Crowdfunding will be the mainstay of bitcoinweekly business model as it used to be before. Essentially, bitcoinweekly will release new contents for a collective fee. You can contribute as much as you want and as little as you want, as long all the donations added up to what bitcoinweekly is looking for. However, there are some issues: I don't have any money to hire writers/reviewers. Thus, I lack both manpower and writing expertise. For now, I have to do everything myself, unless some people are generous enough to assists in editorial reviews. Even more, I don't have any ideas on what to write about. If you have any ideas that you would want me to write about, let me know.
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: New gambling site coming soon
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on: June 05, 2012, 12:00:42 AM
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This is one that I have been wanting to make for a long time, it's simple, fun and good returns!
In order for gambling to have good return for players, the house will have to lose! Beside, I don't see how adding a gambling service add much to the bitcoin economy. |
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [Announce] Bitquestion - bitcoin powered questions and answers
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on: June 04, 2012, 07:19:39 PM
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I agree the splash page could get anoying after a while. But for people that *never* went into the site, if could be a good idea, don't you think ? It's a quick way to understand what the site is about within 10 seconds. I'll carry out a change that only displays the splash for fresh users. Do you think that would fully address this problem ?
It's called data, my friend. Let data decides, not what you conjecture. Do A/B testing or soemthing. |
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Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Something better than Operation Fabulous?
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on: May 30, 2012, 06:33:52 PM
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For the record I am one of the people whom (since last September if I recall) have been trying to buy OpFab.
Since that was not going to happen back then or more recently, I started my own service which now has 87 publishers displaying ads greater then 200k times a day and 45 ads. I have made periodic inquiries to the OpFab owner to see about purchasing the site or domain and all those offers have been rejected. I would like to see the idea of OpFab become successful since I fell in love with it in 2011 but I see no indication that BiokMike is going to let go of this service in its present form and is wasting everybody's time. The last blog update showed that BioMike reduced the publisher payout to .50btc which means nobody was getting prior to then and .50 is likely preventing all but the click fraudsters getting pay outs.
FYI, Operation Fabulous is already brought by someone else. Whether or not they will begin the effort of revamping the site is anybody's guess. |
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