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Re:In 1 Sentence Explain... by fredoliveira on Monday August 01, 2011 @08:19AM (#2831737)
I like this idea, but I think you'd have a really hard time making money off of it. People won't be spending enough time on the site to extract enough value from their visit, and the moderators and contributors you talk about would need compensation for their work in making sure the content is spot on.

The fact that this is intentionally microcontent-based makes this both interesting as well as VERY hard to monetize.

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Re:In 1 Sentence Explain... by corin_ on Monday August 01, 2011 @08:30AM (#2831777)
You're right, my comment was based more on a "I'd love to read this site" than "here's a good business plan". Who knows, maybe it would be possible to either extract enough revenue from it to at least compensate moderators, or perhaps just become an interesting enough place that clever people are willing to pitch in and help out for free.
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Re:In 1 Sentence Explain... by diesellaws on Monday August 01, 2011 @08:32AM (#2831786)
Another great point - monetization. It is not impossible to monetize this website via ad words etc, however for proper moderation you would definitely need real funding/cashflow.

I didn't clarify this anywhere, however I would like to now: I never intended to make money off this website - at all.

It is just a fun challenge and a problem I wanted to solve for myself: How can I find an explanation of something in only one sentence (currently, it's all over the internet and not in one central location). So 1Sentence was my quick attempt to fulfil this need.

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