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Kinda feel like a jerk on this one. Wasn&#x27;t really expecting to be able to nuke it so easily.<p><pre><code> ab -c 30 -n 3000 http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blinklink.me&#x2F;b&#x2F;4XIxfoeF4C0 Concurrency Level: 30 Time taken for tests: 93.802 seconds Complete requests: 3000 Failed requests: 2137 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 2137, Exceptions: 0) Write errors: 0 Requests per second: 31.98 [#&#x2F;sec] (mean) Time per request: 938.024 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 31.267 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 182.47 [Kbytes&#x2F;sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+&#x2F;-sd] median max Connect: 116 165 165.9 122 1276 Processing: 137 771 624.6 625 6827 Waiting: 132 733 595.7 601 6823 Total: 254 936 644.7 789 7062 </code></pre> Perhaps should have &quot;view&quot; throttling per IP. Quite a few mechanisms could have solved my abuse.

I&#x27;m not sure if the submitter created BlinkLink, but I hope the author had fun making it. It&#x27;s a neat idea, and it exploits human psychology in clever ways. I like how the reward for tweeting increases as the number of views remaining goes down. Also, people are driven to share the link with their friends <i>immediately</i> since they know views remaining are scarce.<p>That said, it&#x27;s pretty easy to mirror content. In case the link is dead, <a href="http://i.imgur.com/KGo7oRH.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KGo7oRH.jpg</a> is what was on the page originally.<p>Oh, and I found a UI annoyance. On the front page (<a href="http://www.blinklink.me/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blinklink.me&#x2F;</a>), the blue &quot;Make a BlinkLink&quot; button at the top that says is just a link to blinklink.me. The bottom button (which is a less-noticeable white) actually posts the form. You should probably hide the top button on the front page.

Kind of like a Zynga game. At a certain point, you can&#x27;t continue unless you spam your friends.

This is like Snapchat for the web, except it&#x27;s too easy to take a screenshot of the content which means there&#x27;s not much of a point to the view limit.<p>You could make it difficult perhaps by requiring the user follow a path with their mouse, otherwise white noise appears. That way they cannot actually move their cursor to take a screenshot. Maybe do something else to occupy one of their other hands, such as pressing a series of keys. Of course someone else could be standing there ready to push the &quot;print screen&quot; button or use a camera, like you can with Snapchat. Don&#x27;t forget a time limit.

A variant of this, involving payment, could be the future of journalism.

<a href="http://i.imgur.com/Tz8K46w.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Tz8K46w.png</a>

I disagree with other posters, I think this is a great concept. It would be fantastic for brands to share promotional offers and voucher codes as people would have to tweet to revive access to the code therefore spreading the promo further.

What a great innovation that now content disappears...unless you tweet...

Why does the view count change wildly up and down as I refresh?<p>Otherwise, love it. Needs a favicon. Get ready for viral growth.

gotcha! <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:http:&#x2F;&#x2F;...</a>

This could become a bit more useful if you could add clickable links in the message. Or other files (like PDF) instead of an image. Or if it worked in the opposite direction - &quot;tweet to decrease the number of available views&quot;. Why? To create some kind of scarcity, if the content is really valuable.

Snapchat for URLs

Seeing the hits&#x2F;sec on the count down is pretty impressive

I wonder how adding a link to who &quot;sponsored&quot; the content your viewing (if available) would change things. It&#x27;s interesting how a tweets are now currency.

Kind of like <a href="http://securesha.re" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;securesha.re</a> but less security, more social.

Reminds me of this <a href="http://www.savetoby.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.savetoby.com&#x2F;</a>

please forgive my humble input, but wtf?

Just saw it at &lt;1000..<p><a href="http://imgur.com/6bpnSQl" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;6bpnSQl</a>

It&#x27;d be great to publicize a dataset of hit-times from each ip and from twitter accounts.

Am I the only one that finds this &#x27;feature&#x27; utterly pointless?

zut, we could still make it appear back with a tweet. I hoped to make it disappear for good.<p>But the conclusion is that it is easier to click reload twenty times than to tweet a single message.

Thanks for the combined efforts of HNers to make it disappear :-)

And it&#x27;s gone :)

Anyone read the barcode yet?

Is It true?

It is done!

哈哈哈

creative idea