Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community

http://www.mahalo.com/answers/important-and-exciting-announcement-from-jason-for-mahalo-contributors

by chris24 • 16 years ago

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epoxy• 16 years ago

Well that's certainly confusing.

oldgregg• 16 years ago

I agree, he keeps using "community" and "mahalo" in the same sentence.

lanstein• 16 years ago

There's a Mahalo 'community'?

tptacek• 16 years ago

Sure, in the sense that there is also a Demand Media 'community'.

jcromartie• 16 years ago

I was about to make the exact same quip :)

mcknz• 16 years ago

At least it's not a message to the Hacker News community.

famfam2• 16 years ago

I love how snarky comments are downvoted on HN UNLESS they're about Mahalo. 30 more karma to go, then I'm going to come back and downvote you and everyone else making the same comment on this thread.

dschobel• 16 years ago

HN has a general disdain towards anything which is detrimental to the online landscape (spam, bad pieces of legislation, etc).

No one really gives a crap about Jason or Mahalo, the consensus just seems to be that it operates in the gray areas of SEO with little value added to the content they vacuum in.

Feel free to correct the perception though.

jasonmcalacanis4• 16 years ago

Actually, there is a really solid community of folks building pages, asking questions, providing answers, etc.

what3• 16 years ago

I'm inclined to believe this. Check out this question titled "Do your family members or friends criticize you for the amount of time you spend on Mahalo?"

http://www.mahalo.com/answers/do-your-family-members-or-frie...

ghurlman• 16 years ago

"Mahalo dollars"? What's the conversion rate to USD, or to Shrute Bucks for that matter?

what3• 16 years ago

1 Mahalo Dollar ~= 0.68 USD, based on the price of iPod nano in their store.

Or 1 Mahalo Dollar ~= 0.57 USD, based on their $25 gift cards.

chris24• 16 years ago

1 Mahalo dollar is equal to $0.75 USD, if you have 150 Mahalo Dollars or more. If you don't have that much, then you have to buy something with the 'Mahalo Store', which offers a very limited number of items for an even lower exchange rate.

alanh• 16 years ago

How long has Mahalo been using Dora the Explorer as their mascot?

what3• 16 years ago

How can they afford to pay 50+ people $1000/month. Do they really pull in that much from advertising?

slouch• 16 years ago

www.mahalo.com/type-anything-here

alttab• 16 years ago

http://www.mahalo.com/mahalo-is-a-trap

Looks like they are willing to pay me to make that page. I may take them up on it.

blizkreeg• 16 years ago

I get that they're making good money by embedding ads in every inch of the site. Is this really a 'good' and respectable business model though? Something about it doesn't sit well with me, especially when the site doesn't offer quality content to the user.

jasonmcalacanis4• 16 years ago

Significantly more.

jasonmcalacanis4• 16 years ago

I'm sorry, why is this on Hacker News exactly?

Isn't there a more interesting story about another deserving startup or individual we can focus on?

really.... I'm bored with seeing Calacanis on the front page of HN.

Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community

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