I think it's too risky to run a typical faucets nowadays. Well, I mean... it is hard to calculate the amount of Bitcoin you're giving out and what you're earning for ads. Thus, I created BitRevenues. A service which share it revenues to its users. I will be earning at least 0.01 BTC every time a round ended. There's no need to do mass calculation to find out if you get a profit. You just need to predict when will a round end and minus it from the hosting and domain fees - the result is your profit.
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I wouldn't say running a faucet is risky, the initial investment you'd have to make to have one up and running is actually pretty low, if you could build the faucet yourself.
Well. I agree that the initial investment we have to make is very low. However, the problem is the calculation part. Whereas, you need to calculate every now a then so as to make sure you will not give out more satoshi than you make.
This is easy, just put all the giveaways in a database en sum them up month by month and compare them with your add income
Yeah this is how I had planned to do it. Do you have any idea of the popularity of faucets nowadays?
I have no idea, that is why i want to try it myself someday, to many projects =]
Yeah same here, this seemed like something I could get done quickly, but the more I look into it, the more time I reckon I need
