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escapefromcasablan.ca
Look at my silly idea
http://escapefromcasablan.ca/
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This comment is proof that any idea, no matter how simple, can always be feature-creeped.
Not that that stuff wouldn't be useful. But it would have been really easy to say that any one of these things was a 'must have' for a first implementation, and by the looks of it, is clearly not.
Not that that stuff wouldn't be useful. But it would have been really easy to say that any one of these things was a 'must have' for a first implementation, and by the looks of it, is clearly not.
At first I thought this was a stupid idea, but then I keep checking to see if anyone had changed the image. Then I was curious and wanted to know the answers to the questions I posted. Maybe in the future =)
People will pay for anything apparently. This idea is not even original. Try again here http://www.lastpicstanding.com/
NB: NSFW as of this writing.
This site is free and you don't have to pay to change the image.
Therefore it will always be as NSFW as humanly possible.
Shouldn't you increment the cost?
I actually thought of milliondollarhomepage.com looking at your site.
If the URL is more interesting, you might be on to something very interesting. If it catches on, people might buy themselves some media attention just by buying the image.
Love your idea.
I actually thought of milliondollarhomepage.com looking at your site.
If the URL is more interesting, you might be on to something very interesting. If it catches on, people might buy themselves some media attention just by buying the image.
Love your idea.
I paid a dollar to put up a notifo ad. :)
edit: I paid another dollar and put up another notifo ad. :)
edit: I paid another dollar and put up another notifo ad. :)
I can confirm that while the Notifo pic was up, we had a burst of traffic to the homepage... so there's an interesting data point.
I noticed and actually went to your web site. Had never heard of you guys before. Good job.
I saw it. Nice shirts!
I overrode your ad with a HackCollege banner :)
Hey Kelly! Actually you overrode the picture of two dudes of an office that overrode mine about 1 min ago hehe
Shazbot!
Make it cost a dollar more every time the image is changed, and put it under a better url!
Yeah, better url would help... but what is it? I mean, I don't know what the word is that describes it...
Reminds me of both billboards and those $/pixel things people did in the nineties.
Reminds me of both billboards and those $/pixel things people did in the nineties.
OK, I just paid my dollar! My wife and I don't recall where we took this, the beach I think!
Why was this down voted? You did not like the pic? Sort of uncalled for...
Damn only up 7 minutes..!!
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I paid a dollar, and it worked!! Now waiting for the self-satisfaction to set in...(edit: didn't last long, "fork you" took over.)
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I think you should be able to pay as much as you want. Each dollar you pay* = 1 minute-credit. So say you pay $50, you get 50 minutes. Someone then needs to outbid your remaining minute-credits to replace you.
Eg if you paid for 30 minutes ($30) but it has been up for 15 minutes, you have 15 minutes remaining, so someone has to bid $15 or more to replace you.
Once you get to 0 minutes left, your picture stays up until someone pays $1 or more to add their own minute-credits and replace you.
This 'decay' means that you'll always have people trying to snipe as soon as it's affordable, to get their pic up.
Have a timer underneath saying "5 minutes remaining..." to give people an idea of what they need to bid over to get their pic up.
(*The actual price suggested is just random to make it easy to explain. $1/minute is probably too much in reality)
Eg if you paid for 30 minutes ($30) but it has been up for 15 minutes, you have 15 minutes remaining, so someone has to bid $15 or more to replace you.
Once you get to 0 minutes left, your picture stays up until someone pays $1 or more to add their own minute-credits and replace you.
This 'decay' means that you'll always have people trying to snipe as soon as it's affordable, to get their pic up.
Have a timer underneath saying "5 minutes remaining..." to give people an idea of what they need to bid over to get their pic up.
(*The actual price suggested is just random to make it easy to explain. $1/minute is probably too much in reality)
It might be cool if the user could add a link to the image. They'd get a sudden burst of hits. AND, make it so I can pay as much as I want and my picture will stay up until someone agrees to pay more. You'll make a fortune off of people with egos.
> make it so I can pay as much as I want and my picture will stay up until someone agrees to pay more.
I'd think you'd also want to add some sort of decay on the threshold price to keep people spending.
I'd think you'd also want to add some sort of decay on the threshold price to keep people spending.
Do keep us posted on how well you do with this - maybe a counter somewhere on the page
Now go on Mechanical Turk and offer $1 to people who upload a photo...
What are those things at the top? Pot leaves? Down arrows? I know they are buttons, but what are the images supposed to be?
I came up with a similar idea a few years ago -- Who Wants First? -- which featured a giant, billboard-type text ad space at the top, in the first position. You could place your ad text there for $1, bumping down all the previous ads into smaller-sized ad spots. Fun idea, but never really took off. Hope yours has better luck!
will there be a history feature so people can browse to previous pictures?
sure, that'll be $2.
how much have you made so far?
Boo. My pic lasted all of 40 seconds.
It's okay. My pic that replaced your pic lasted 20 seconds.
And now it's being trolled.
I feel bad but I'm interested in seeing if it works, whether or not people take notice or if they assume it was someone being a dick. Seems to have lasted 2 mins so far.
That's it. I'm doing a "buy a pixel" ... and with an little extra to choose color, of course.
I'd love to hear how this goes, please update us. :)
Looks like the website is shut down now!
Or is it? I can see someone doing this just to screw with people. Well played who ever uploaded it ;p
ah, yeah good point, someone could have done that! I did not even think of that. Notifo is back up front again!
This has been done before.
I just something very silly. If you didn't catch it while it's up, then it didn't happen.
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* Can we view previous images?
* Can you put a timer up that says image has been up for X minutes?
* If I want to change the picture and pay you and some does the same thing at the same time, but they clicked the submit button a few seconds after I did, then I'm gonna be a little pissed as I never saw my picture up there
* Counter that says Image viewed X times?
* Is there a minimum amount of time that the image stays up? (5 or 10 minutes?)