I built a website where you can get a shoutout on the homepage for 1$

[lin1966]

I was a bit bored during my semester break and tried to find a way to make some money and came up with the idea of www.OneDollarShoutout.com . (Did it just for fun so even if it doesn’t work, at least I learned sth)

You can buy a shoutout for 1 USD and it’ll be shown on the main homepage until the next person buys the shoutout.

During your shoutout, every time a user comes to the website, he/she will, first of all, see your shoutout.

You only have to submit a link to your profile/business and a picture.

 

[aireland1000]

@lin1966 This type of project can sometimes take an unexpected turn..

 

[lin1966]

@aireland1000 I am still figuring out marketing

 

[rocky24]

@aireland1000 Wdym

 

[crossclinger2014]

@rocky24 Porn

 

[aireland1000]

@rocky24 A peak in visibility (don't ask me how, something purely down to luck, an influencer buying a spot, etc.) leading to a kind of FOMO. People who fight to stay featured and buying several times a day. But it's still a long way off

 

[ouad]

@lin1966 The founder of Calm, Alex had the same idea for advertising by pixel. You paid for a pixel called the million dollar home page. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com

 

[feurefest]

@ouad Had no idea that guy founded Calm

 

[buckbran]

@ouad I bought a 10x10 back in the day. It's the dice cube showing three dots about 1/3 down near the center. Sadly you cannot update the link.

 

[yourfriendcrow]

@buckbran At least you are part of the history now

 

[hrosec]

@ouad What was the flow to buy a slot there? Was any competitors back in the days? Do you believe someone can reproduce it again?

 

[newnature22]

@hrosec I remember this at the time. Went viral. Pretty quickly plenty of copy cats sprang up but none of them did well.

 

[hrosec]

@newnature22 Make sense

 

[sanharver]

@ouad This was just hype right? Never hear about this its been decade

 

[inlitenme]

@ouad I have a saas idea: the billion dollar MRR page - you pay every month to keep your ad on there.

 

[jesusismywheelchair]

@ouad That guy got really rich with that

Other days

 

[buckbran]

@lin1966 This is brilliant! I bought slot #18. Reminds me of the Million Dollar Home page. Which is still there. I bought a 10X10 pixel area for $100 way back then. http://milliondollarhomepage.com/

What's cool is I will check back later and see that #19 has replaced me and I will spend another $1 to appear there again. It's a vanity thing so I will post it to Twitter, etc. Get a feeding frenzy started and you wake up with $1 million in your paypal.

 

[buckbran]

Damn you #19!

 

[lin1966]

@buckbran Haha thank you

 

[deborah101]

@lin1966 See that's the beauty of building something when you are in college, you don't expect much.. and that's when you build cool things.. loved the simplicity of the concept.. good luck!