Re: Look at my silly idea
by f1gm3nt on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:06PM
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* How long does it take before the image is changed?
* 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?)
Re: Look at my silly idea
by steveklabnik on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:15PM
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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.
Re: Look at my silly idea
by f1gm3nt on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:19PM
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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 =)
Re: Look at my silly idea
by kmfrk on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:10PM
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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.
Re: Look at my silly idea
by Andrenid on Friday December 17, 2010 @07:00PM
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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)
Re: Look at my silly idea
by rman666 on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:07PM
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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.
Re: Look at my silly idea
by jawns on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:36PM
(#2017904)
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!
Re: Look at my silly idea
by citricsquid on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:33PM
(#2017895)
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.
* 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?)
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.
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.
edit: I paid another dollar and put up another notifo ad. :)
Reminds me of both billboards and those $/pixel things people did in the nineties.
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)
I'd think you'd also want to add some sort of decay on the threshold price to keep people spending.
Exploiting curiosity like this is kind of a neat idea.