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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7652330

by bprajapa • 12 years ago

4 18 12 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

http://www.upverge.com

dangrossman• 12 years ago

If I still had a flag button, I'd flag this.

jtchang2• 12 years ago

Why flag? The title could be better but it isn't really spam.

greenyoda• 12 years ago

The same site was submitted to HN two days ago by the same person:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638444

bprajapa8• 12 years ago

I'm not trying to span people. Just showing HN my site and seeing if I get suggestions. If you don't like it, go read another article.

jtchang2• 12 years ago

Can you tell us something about the idea and why you think it is different?

bprajapa8• 12 years ago

I'm basically trying to create another medium for small companies to get traffic for cheap. It's much like http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ but I'm allowing companies to post their ad for free. Right now it's fairly simple, it's only the company logo and a link to their website but I will eventually add additional information. I want to first see if this actually works and I get enough companies registering.

krapp• 12 years ago

I'm still having a hard time understanding what I, as a company, would actually be getting from this. Is the 'ad' anything beyond the listing on your site? Companies are going to want to host banners that they can push elsewhere, not necessarily to send their customers to your site first.

nattaylor• 12 years ago

This reminds me of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

bprajapa8• 12 years ago

Yes, that is very true. This is kind of where I got my inspiration for this site. The difference is that I'm allowing people to post their ads for free and then seeing if people are willing to pay for being at the top of the list. We'll see if this actually works, like I said it's an experiment but will only works if enough companies register.

fiveturns• 12 years ago

That was the inspiration that made me attempt this same idea 8 years ago, when I was at college. I called it depositorybox, and the idea was people would deposit a message and money to get it higher up the page.

It didn't work and I learned I had to earn money like regular people.

dsafaskljl22• 12 years ago

App Not Setup: The developers of this app have not set up this app properly for Facebook Login.

bprajapa8• 12 years ago

That's weird, I can log in using my facebook. Anyone else have this issue?

bramm• 12 years ago

I figured, sure why not, I'll post an ad for free. But when it asked for a required address and phone number, I decided not to.

Too early for that kid of trust.

bprajapa8• 12 years ago

It's not required :) I should remove them entirely. People might get intimidated by all the input fields.

bluerail• 12 years ago

The advertiser is misspelled in the below page,

http://www.upverge.com/advertisers

If you are an ""advertisor"" interested in being a member of our affiliates program,

So now, are you sure you will get thousands of users?

As a User, why should I come to your site? What's in it for me? You have free ad posting, then there is no way you could guarantee that it would be spam free links and are worth visiting..

As an advertiser, why should I pay you when I get it for free? (to get a top place ??), If the users are not interested why would I be interested in spending advertising in your website..

just a thought..

bprajapa8• 12 years ago

You make very valid points. I don't think I will get thousands of users unless this goes viral. As an advertiser, you would pay to make sure ur ad posting remains at the top because it's ordered by amount.

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