I'm very selective with the external scripts allowed on my websites. Ad networks are notorious for running malicious JavaScript on popular sites like NYTimes[1] and Yahoo[2] home pages. Any plans for an API so sites can receive ad content as JSON and display it without ever executing your external JavaScript? I might consider it for future side projects if I could npm install your client library instead of including an external script tag.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/business/media/13note.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/business/media/13note.htm...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/04/thousands-of-visitors-to-yahoo-com-hit-with-malware-attack-researchers-say/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/04...</a>
Pretty cool idea! We did something similar when we launched ads on Read the Docs, which we call Community Ads: <a href="https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advertising/ethical-advertising.html#community-ads" rel="nofollow">https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advertising/ethical-ad...</a><p>Basically, we show ads for OSS projects & conferences in the ad spot on a small percentage of our traffic. It's a nice way to give back, and in the past we've shown ads for many Pycon's around the world, the PSF's annual fundraiser, and a bunch more worthwhile community projects.<p>The hardest thing has actually been finding projects that are well targeted for our community, and getting design assets for them. A lot of OSS & side projects don't have this stuff, and the ones who do probably don't need much promotion.
Creator here.
Tiny ads is my attempt to create a cross site ad network for hackers and side projects.<p>It's more an experiment than a serious business venture.
The idea is simple. We place a little ad on each others page with a link back to ones side project.<p>It privacy respecting (no user tracking) and will work in the beginning by me judging which project to include into the ad network.<p>I hope to create a positive sum game and give cool projects a new platform.<p>(The ad will start showing on March 15th)
I like the idea but putting a script to the home page is probably too invasive. Can you make it into a single static image or JSON/static HTML based?
I really like this idea, and I’m someone who <i>hates</i> disrespectful ads. A small, non-animated tile—ideally advertising something I’m interested in—sounds like something I wouldn’t mind seeing.<p>One thing: I really hope you don’t plan on making these things wiggle or anything. That’s exactly the sort of obnoxiousness that prompts me to block ads, and I think that would defeat your stated goal of unobtrusiveness here.
Very nice idea - exactly what I was looking for!<p>I just uploaded my own side project (<a href="http://spot.gifts" rel="nofollow">http://spot.gifts</a>) but the image I uploaded is showing as broken (was initially .svg). I tried to upload a .png and delete my previous post but that didn't work. Just thought I'd give you feedback. Keep going!
Nice product. Created an account and it's smooth.
Two questions:
- what's your plan of monetisation
- how you will maintain the ads sanity? Not all side projects are worthy enough for ads.
back in the day we called these webrings. Still relevant but now that most content is surfaced through recommendation algorithms, and people are more adverse to ads its tougher. Still great idea. Good luck
I added my site nunino.com and added the script to the head.<p>What do I have to do to place the banner?<p>Would be nice a place inside the site to send you some feedback or questions.
Love the idea. Just signed up <a href="https://secalerts.co" rel="nofollow">https://secalerts.co</a> and added the script to our homepage.