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Show HN: VidFall – Pay with time, not your wallet

30 点作者 badgercapital将近 11 年前

15 条评论

dkyc将近 11 年前
The age old problem that the demographic that watches video ads for .50$ is not the demographic you want to advertise to...
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bengali3将近 11 年前
Clean and i got the message in 3 seconds. I would guess your viewers will result in lower conversion rates for the advertisers when viewed from your page. Not sure how to handle that if advertisers notice.<p>Also, since your whole pitch is about the $$$ your leaderboard should be tied to $ somehow instead of just # of watches. That&#x27;s more for your own dashboard. (ie highlight the wins, not the amount of pain other users have been put through)
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chatmasta将近 11 年前
These business models usually face a problem of one ad view not being enough to incentivize someone to watch it. I like the penny auction spin you put on that. Clever.<p>That said, is your ad network aware of this and okay with it?<p>How do you verify these are real viewers? There are a lot of &quot;attack&quot; vectors here... automated servers + proxies, or even just somebody with a clickbot on their home computer cycling through videos and buying an item once its price goes below what they can sell it for elsewhere?<p>Also, why would your users not just buy giftcards at any number of the discount gift sites, many of which offer higher discounts than you, without the need to watch a video?<p>I&#x27;m very curious about the economics here, because I find it hard to imagine you could win all these &quot;startup of the month&quot; type accolades without thinking this through.
Dragonai将近 11 年前
I like that the competitive edge doesn&#x27;t feel very pressuring. Cool idea, I&#x27;ll keep an eye on this site.<p>Also just a quick note - the copy on the About Us section could use some slight sentence structure and organization checking. :) The end in particular reads a little strangely:<p>&gt; We even feature charity auctions, which apply the revenue users generate from watching video ads towards great causes around the world. Thanks for your interest in VidFall. Founded in September 2013, VidFall is a portfolio company of Wasabi Ventures, LLC.
sadkingbilly将近 11 年前
How does this not violate the terms of your affiliate agreements?<p>Are the video ads from direct clients of yours or through a general affiliate program?
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ChrisArchitect将近 11 年前
In Time (2011) - &quot;... To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities....&quot;
aaron987将近 11 年前
I honestly don&#x27;t see the benefit of this. If I understand it correctly, a bunch of people watch ads, causing the price to go down. But only one person gets the discounted price, and everyone else who sat there watching ads gets nothing? In other words, the majority of people using the site get no benefit.
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nacs将近 11 年前
First time I loaded the page, I got some massive text in the middle of the page that said:<p><pre><code> Error 500 CDbConnection failed to open the DB connection. </code></pre> Should look into caching that front page or at least handling DB errors more gracefully.
nicksergeant将近 11 年前
Wow, I&#x27;m quite impressed. I bought the $100 restaurant gift card (for $30). They sent it to me tonight, but it was only for $50. I emailed them, and they responded within 8 minutes with the remaining $50.<p>Kudos to their customer support.
neil_s将近 11 年前
Really cool concept! I want to try it out, just for the game theory aspects of it.<p>Has anyone successfully received the items they ordered off of this?
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badgercapital将近 11 年前
Wow, well thank you HN for the support. Really incredible to be on the front page. You guys blew up AWS! Cleaned up the DB issues! Let&#x27;s party!
llamataboot将近 11 年前
Bought an Amazon gift card to test it out. Says it will arrive in 24 hours. Would be nice if instant, but looks good so far!
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obisw4n将近 11 年前
Its very hard to trust this website when there is a massive misrepresentation of the number of viewers.
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galuggus将近 11 年前
Who do you use for your ad network?
brandonpindulic将近 11 年前
This is awesome