How We Built r/Place

Re:How We Built r/Place by DanHulton on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:47PM (#14109814)

A long time ago, I built http://www.ipaidthemost.com/, which is kinda related, at least to TMDH anyhow. Far, far less collaborative than /r/place, but similar in terms of staking out ownership.

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Re:How We Built r/Place by jacquesm on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:52PM (#14110825)

Hilarious. That's got to be the most direct monetization strategy since tmdhp.

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Re:How We Built r/Place by Liron on Friday April 14, 2017 @01:03AM (#14112789)

Similar to https://flashcash.money

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Re:How We Built r/Place by joenot443 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @06:49PM (#14111450)

I love it. Wish this had been my idea.

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Re:How We Built r/Place by Twirrim on Thursday April 13, 2017 @06:01PM (#14111240)

Does that actually make money?

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Re:How We Built r/Place by zepolen on Thursday April 13, 2017 @06:02PM (#14111252)

Looks like it's made $23.25 so far @ 1.50$ for the message.

If it reached 5$, he'd have made 25,000$

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Re:How We Built r/Place by loeber on Thursday April 13, 2017 @09:37PM (#14112151)

Your math is off -- if it reached $5, he'd have made $250. I think you were counting in cents. To convince yourself:

>>> total = 0

>>> for i in range(5, 500, 5):

... total += i

>>> total

24750

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Re:How We Built r/Place by zepolen on Saturday April 15, 2017 @11:37PM (#14124201)

Hey you're right, my bad.

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Re:How We Built r/Place by Twirrim on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:48PM (#14128922)

But there's all the hosting costs to consider.

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