How much money do I need to start my own faucet?

[ethantaylor]

What's the minimum amount of money I need to prepare in order to start a faucet?

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[Kema]

It depends on what skills you bring to the table.
Can you do all the heavy lifting yourself?
IMHO the big expenses comes from being hacked or raided by bots.
If you can keep security tight and do all the work yourself, you can start a faucet with pretty modest resources.
Buy-in is low enough that transfer- and conversion fees will be noticeable.
However, if you’re starting on the cheap, remember to keep a quick turnover. It’s no fun to run dry while you’re waiting for payouts.

[faucetuser007]

Nobody can really answer this question, it all depends on how big you see it... 

I started my own faucet (direct payout to FaucetHub) with some claims I made and the referral earnings I have. Both can be used to cover that initial "gap" between you paying your users and you getting your first payment from shortlink providers and/or ad networks. That "gap" is the minimum amount of funds you need!

Buying a script can also be very costly... or you can use a free one, or code it yourself?

I use a free script on free hosting and did the promotion myself. You could start that way and later on "upgrade" everything to minimize the initial cost?

BTW: I consider myself an amateur faucet owner and do this just for fun, maybe pro faucet owners see things different?

Success! 

[felicita]

Firstly you need knowlege in web security and also in webdevelopment like html,php,mysql,javascript.
They you dont need much budget to start. Otherwise you have to pay a coder !



kind regards

[ethantaylor]

Thanks. And sorry for not being clear. I was not talking about the technical part.

The amount of money I was asking will be for paying my faucet claimers. In other words, how much money should I prepare in order to deal with the payouts?

[coin_curious]

they still answered your question.

I'd say to get at least double the withdrawal amount of whatever source you use to earn your money back.

If your ad network pays out at BTC 0.001 you start with BTC 0.002

except you (like very many of us) will see that it wont be enough once the bots target your faucet.

[ethantaylor]

they still answered your question.

I'd say to get at least double the withdrawal amount of whatever source you use to earn your money back.

If your ad network pays out at BTC 0.001 you start with BTC 0.002

except you (like very many of us) will see that it wont be enough once the bots target your faucet.

Thanks for your input. Is it really okay to starting with only BTC 0.002 ($13.08 now)?? I thought I need at least $100 or $200 to start with.

Regarding bots, we have various captchas, especially Google's reCaptcha. Isn't that enough to block bots?

[coin_curious]

they still answered your question.

I'd say to get at least double the withdrawal amount of whatever source you use to earn your money back.

If your ad network pays out at BTC 0.001 you start with BTC 0.002

except you (like very many of us) will see that it wont be enough once the bots target your faucet.

Thanks for your input. Is it really okay to starting with only BTC 0.002 ($13.08 now)?? I thought I need at least $100 or $200 to start with.

Regarding bots, we have various captchas, especially Google's reCaptcha. Isn't that enough to block bots?

nope, and that amount was just an example.

there are a lot of captcha solving programs and services around bots can use to solve on your page. add a macro to input claim request at set intervals and you have a bot claiming. let someone multiply that and you will be drained fast without getting actual visits so no ad impressions.

[ethantaylor]

they still answered your question.

I'd say to get at least double the withdrawal amount of whatever source you use to earn your money back.

If your ad network pays out at BTC 0.001 you start with BTC 0.002

except you (like very many of us) will see that it wont be enough once the bots target your faucet.

Thanks for your input. Is it really okay to starting with only BTC 0.002 ($13.08 now)?? I thought I need at least $100 or $200 to start with.

Regarding bots, we have various captchas, especially Google's reCaptcha. Isn't that enough to block bots?

nope, and that amount was just an example.

there are a lot of captcha solving programs and services around bots can use to solve on your page. add a macro to input claim request at set intervals and you have a bot claiming. let someone multiply that and you will be drained fast without getting actual visits so no ad impressions.

So, these days, how do faucets block bots? If bots are so smart, all faucets would have already bankrupted, wouldn't they?

[Kema]

It's a constant struggle.
You can check out my faucets to see how I've solved it. (See sig...)
*Spoiler alert*
No Captcha! 

But really, if you manage to foil the bots, organic traffic will be manageable and you'll be able to top up again before running dry.
Come to think of it, I've done exactly what you're not supposed to do? I've removed the timer, removed the captcha, increased the reward and I use instant payouts to Faucethub. 
Maybe I'm naive but I hope my visitors will click enough ads to keep me afloat. It's been over a year now and I'm still alive...

[ethantaylor]

It's a constant struggle.
You can check out my faucets to see how I've solved it. (See sig...)
*Spoiler alert*
No Captcha!  

But really, if you manage to foil the bots, organic traffic will be manageable and you'll be able to top up again before running dry.
Come to think of it, I've done exactly what you're not supposed to do? I've removed the timer, removed the captcha, increased the reward and I use instant payouts to Faucethub.  
Maybe I'm naive but I hope my visitors will click enough ads to keep me afloat. It's been over a year now and I'm still alive...

Hi. I just tried your Bitcoin faucet. And I still saw reCaptcha on a link shortener page. And after I went through the link shortener, I saw this message: "It appears you're using a proxy, No proxy allowed here!" That's disappointing. I was not using any proxy. Please let me know which service you are using for proxy-detection so that I can avoid using that inaccurate service.

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[ethantaylor]

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Thanks for the offer. I will register a new domain and host my faucet on my existing web hosting service. Thank you anyway.

[Kema]

It's a constant struggle.
You can check out my faucets to see how I've solved it. (See sig...)
*Spoiler alert*
No Captcha!  

But really, if you manage to foil the bots, organic traffic will be manageable and you'll be able to top up again before running dry.
Come to think of it, I've done exactly what you're not supposed to do? I've removed the timer, removed the captcha, increased the reward and I use instant payouts to Faucethub.  
Maybe I'm naive but I hope my visitors will click enough ads to keep me afloat. It's been over a year now and I'm still alive...

Hi. I just tried your Bitcoin faucet. And I still saw reCaptcha on a link shortener page. And after I went through the link shortener, I saw this message: "It appears you're using a proxy, No proxy allowed here!" That's disappointing. I was not using any proxy. Please let me know which service you are using for proxy-detection so that I can avoid using that inaccurate service.

Hmm, I thought that was handled by now. I actually made a serious revision a while back regarding that very thing.
Could you shoot me a pm with your IP so that I can look into it?
I changed service, specifically to avoid false positives, and if the new one is doing it as well, I need to handle it.

I'd be happy to take suggestions on this matter. Without prior knowledge you're flying blind and online reviews aren't all that helpful.

Edit. I've made a quick patch while looking into this.

[ethantaylor]

It's a constant struggle.
You can check out my faucets to see how I've solved it. (See sig...)
*Spoiler alert*
No Captcha!  

But really, if you manage to foil the bots, organic traffic will be manageable and you'll be able to top up again before running dry.
Come to think of it, I've done exactly what you're not supposed to do? I've removed the timer, removed the captcha, increased the reward and I use instant payouts to Faucethub.  
Maybe I'm naive but I hope my visitors will click enough ads to keep me afloat. It's been over a year now and I'm still alive...

Hi. I just tried your Bitcoin faucet. And I still saw reCaptcha on a link shortener page. And after I went through the link shortener, I saw this message: "It appears you're using a proxy, No proxy allowed here!" That's disappointing. I was not using any proxy. Please let me know which service you are using for proxy-detection so that I can avoid using that inaccurate service.

Hmm, I thought that was handled by now. I actually made a serious revision a while back regarding that very thing.
Could you shoot me a pm with your IP so that I can look into it?
I changed service, specifically to avoid false positives, and if the new one is doing it as well, I need to handle it.

I'd be happy to take suggestions on this matter. Without prior knowledge you're flying blind and online reviews aren't all that helpful.

Edit. I've made a quick patch while looking into this.

I has just sent you my IP.

[Kema]

Thanks to ethantaylor, I could track down the issue and fix it.

[ethantaylor]

Thanks to ethantaylor, I could track down the issue and fix it.

You're welcome. I'm glad that I could help.

[felicita]

just wanted to notify that sktipt advertises not blocking automated softwares/bots .....
Most bots nots solving captchas by them selfs the captchas still do humans with services like http://2captcha.com


regards

[ethantaylor]

just wanted to notify that sktipt advertises not blocking automated softwares/bots .....
Most bots nots solving captchas by them selfs the captchas still do humans with services like http://2captcha.com


regards

I can't understand your first line.

I tried your faucet and saw you are using Solve Media captcha. Isn't that easy to solve for bots?

[felicita]

as i sad one post above XD The bots send the captchas to real humans adn they solve the captcha
So solvemedia is same secure as skript ads or recaptcha or any math captcha or any other captcha ......



regards