Is it profitable to run a Bitcoin faucet in 2017

[Gozie51]

Faucets are really waste of good time I mean. It takes one time yet not profitable. Many faucets site are crap and for btc, you might not hit the target set before withdraw. Faucets are not it & so, not a better way to acquire btc coin nor any other crypo

[Adbitco]

I don't think bitcoin faucets are as popular as they once used to be about two or three years ago. I agree even newbies don't find them worthy of spending hours on faucets only to earn a few satoshi so it's no longer a profitable activity to run a faucet these days. I have a friend who used to run a btc faucet till a few months ago but he had to permanently shut it down because he didn't find it to be profitable. The expenses incurred don't match the revenue gained from these faucets through ads.

[niap]

anyone run faucet here?

[Collinslevi]

When you’re starting out with your very own faucet you should be focused on making sure “the money machine works”. Meaning, if you put in traffic on one end, money will come out of the other end. You also want to test this out as quickly as possible, and the best way to do that is by using 3rd party code. So if you’re just launching your faucet I still suggest using Faucetbox. But as you grow you have to move away from them.
Keep in mind that hosting your own faucet isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. It means you’ll need to create your own management system (and that costs money). You’ll also have to take care of the payouts yourself, protect the faucet from scammers and secure the funds you are using for your payouts.

[Barcode_]

With so many bitcoin faucets site shutting down monthly, I don't think it is really profitable to run a bitcoin faucet site considering the time and effort the site admin would have to dedicate to the site. If the amount of satoshis reward is too low per claim, attracting visitors to the site would be another huge problem for the admin.

[svinuga]

With so many bitcoin faucets site shutting down monthly, I don't think it is really profitable to run a bitcoin faucet site considering the time and effort the site admin would have to dedicate to the site. If the amount of satoshis reward is too low per claim, attracting visitors to the site would be another huge problem for the admin.

Not too much of an effort - free hosting, wordpress, plugin - you have your faucet site running like in 10 minutes.
Although promotion - is different issue...

[sumanto]

Hi,

I have a question regarding your own BTC faucet. Is it profitable to run it in 2017?
I was thinking to run it via WordPress.
What initial investment is needed?

I think this is not profitable for you, you can buy ICO you can trust to add your bitcoin assets, if you make bitcoin faucet this year I think it is not very profitable.

[waynechong1995]

Your content must be consistently interesting, attractive and retentive of course, there is no way you couldn't get those ads clicks when traffic is sufficient. I came across many faucets that just completing a plain captcha, or a simple activity that pays you dust what do you expect from such quality? Oh those pages are filled with 90% banners as well. The best suggestion i can give other than converting traffic is by integrating gamification/ UI - very important for retention, maybe introducing some new systematic ways that could grant your visitor more with rewards. Finally obviously is to do your math before running one, Definitely i still faucet is still profitable considering the increasing value of BTC.

[MadMax18]

So now we're in 2018. I see mixed messages in regards to launching a faucet. What do you think? With more users entering the crypto-markets, do you believe in profitability of faucets? (as publisher)

[Rasshemark]

It depends on how you manage your faucet and techniques to attract visitors.. I agree even newbies don't find them worthy of spending hours on faucets only to earn a few satoshi so it's no longer a profitable activity to run a faucet these days.