Having trouble to generate early traction for our main project [1], we decided to design a side project marketing hack. This traction hack resulted in StartupTwister [2].<p>The idea behind StartupTwister is to register the landing page of your startup in an Ethereum smart contract [3]. The main page of StartupTwister [4] randomly redirects to one of the registered landing pages in order to generate early tration. The landing pages currently registered on StartupTwister can be found here [5]. The first 25 pages were registered by ourselves for illustration purposes. You can register your landing page in the respective Ethereum smart contract here [6]. Neither a login is required nor do you have to provide your email address.<p>The price of registering your landing page is determined by supply and demand via an auction system implemented on Ethereum. The auction system is based on a Dutch auction with Harberger taxes. More information about the auction system can be found at the bottom of [6].<p>[1] <a href="https://turtle.community" rel="nofollow">https://turtle.community</a>
[2] <a href="https://startuptwister.com/home" rel="nofollow">https://startuptwister.com/home</a>
[3] <a href="https://etherscan.io/address/0xE1f01D1f7791aD4A45ccA7697b15538Bb2A7B8Eb" rel="nofollow">https://etherscan.io/address/0xE1f01D1f7791aD4A45ccA7697b155...</a>
[4] <a href="https://startuptwister.com" rel="nofollow">https://startuptwister.com</a>
[5] <a href="https://startuptwister.com/shuffle" rel="nofollow">https://startuptwister.com/shuffle</a>
[6] <a href="https://startuptwister.com/register" rel="nofollow">https://startuptwister.com/register</a>
Simple question: Why?<p>In detail: Why should I pay for someone redirected ramdomly to my site when visiting another homepage? Why would a visitor of startuptwister want to be rediected randomly? Why the need for Ethereum?<p>Seems to me as an overcomplicated, weird solution to a discovery problem that is much better handled without the "random" factor.