Ask HN: What is the most expensive startup failure?

Re:Ask HN: What is the most expensive startup failure? by romanhn on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:42PM (#33926749)

Yeah, that one was doomed from the start. Hacks to hide the popup and automate pretend-browsing came out almost immediately. As a teenager with a lot of free time on his hands, AllAdvantage was a great way to make a few bucks while doing what I already was all day.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most expensive startup failure? by toast0 on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:57PM (#33928992)

I wouldn't consider it a failure, I earned a couple meals running that and resource editing aim to have Internet Explorer in the window title; I might have edited mirc as well, but I quit IRC during that time period. Didn't have to fake anything else.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most expensive startup failure? by cmer on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:11PM (#33929778)

Oh I made a (relative) killing with it too. I was running it 24/7 on multiple computers with bots to simulate activity. The fact that they didn’t realize that no human being can be awake 24/7 baffles me.

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