Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots

Re:Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots by shubhamjain on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @10:38AM (#41925481)

Unless your website has real humans visiting it, there's not a lot of value, I am afraid. The idea of many dynamically generated pages isn't new or unique. IPInfo[1] has 4B sub-pages for every IPv4 address. CompressJPEG[2] has lot of sub-pages to answer the query, "resize image to a x b". ColorHexa[3] has sub-pages for all hex colors. The easiest way to monetize is signup for AdSense and throw some ads on the page.

[1]: https://ipinfo.io/185.192.69.2

[2]: https://compressjpeg.online/resize-image-to-512x512

[3]: https://www.colorhexa.com/553390

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Re:Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots by leoh on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:56PM (#41930837)

Whenever someone uses the phrase “I’m afraid” I always imagine the snobbiest, dumbest, most obnoxious person ever.

Not saying you’re wrong but man I wish we could retire this awful idiom.

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Re:Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots by hedvig23 on Thursday October 24, 2024 @04:57AM (#41933568)

There was another post on here where the creator responded, and he had intentionally built a site that had bots endlessly digging further through pages, though I can't recall which. I believe his site was pretty old too, and of simple html.

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