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Show HN: My bold attempt to become a millionaire while trying to solve a problem

7 pointsby enormaceover 12 years ago

6 comments

superqdover 12 years ago
The site says its the "ultimate" iPhone app discovery destination. I wasn't certain how it was supposed to help you discover apps, because at first it just looked like a very long list, which isn't very helpful. Then I saw a filter, but the filter only includes a small selection of categories. That's not very helpful either.<p>I'm not sure what the problem is that you are trying to solve, and what would motivate someone to purchase an icon on your page. If it was a viral site, then certainly the eyeballs will entice some to buy space. However, the site isn't a destination, and isn't novel enough to pull tons of potential "real" customers (if most people visiting the site are potential advertisers, it's not very valuable to advertisers, etc).<p>So that means your site needs to actually be better at app discovery than Apple's iTunes. But it's not, or at least I couldn't figure out how it was. Is there some other mechanism for finding apps that you provide?<p>If you are trying to replicate the novelty of the million dollar home page, I don't think it will work in this case. Do you already have tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of visitors to the site? If not, why buy?
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buraksaricaover 12 years ago
The ~$700 blocks are in the middle of the grid and those can be reached after a 5 scroll in the page. And unfortunately they won't be positively affected by grid flip. The best bargain is the cheapest ones IMO, i may give 20 bucks which will stay there until you reach 250.000.
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rartichokeover 12 years ago
Looks like more than 1 person went out of their way to skip the $13 slot. Are people really so afraid of 13 that they would pay more money for a worse spot just to avoid it?<p>It jumps from $12 to $14 + $15 + $16 at the time of this comment.
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typpoover 12 years ago
Reminds me of the million dollar homepage, which succeeded in raising a million dollars:<p><a href="http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/</a>
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slajaxover 12 years ago
Pretty funny. Reminds me of the million dollar homepage guy who sold pixels. Good job.
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locengover 12 years ago
The pricing increases far too quickly.
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