My side project: an open-sourced comedy community

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by parker • 18 years ago
27 33 18 years ago

Hi everyone, I just launched a side project I've been working on for the last month or so ... it's fairly simple, but I'd love your thoughts.

http://www.ChompChompDead.com --> it's roughly what happens when you get eaten by a shark. We like to think of it as open-sourced comedy.

Anyways, there's a cast of 10 members who submit articles that are rated by the public. At the end of each week, the lowest rated cast member gets demoted, while the funniest member of the community is promoted.

Basically, this is one of those 'life is too short' kind of initiatives. I just love writing and reading comedy, nothing existed like this before, I knew I could build it... so I did. I'm not really expecting to profit off of it -- I merely wanted it to exist.

I'm launching it with the help of a bunch of screenwriters and comics I know. It's amazing how much the creative world doesn't understand about the online world, and vice versa. Hopefully this is one of those things that helps to bring those two worlds closer together.

Thanks for reading, and enjoy! Maybe you can even try your hand at being funny :)...

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