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Re:A Gossip App Brought My High School to a Halt by adyus on Monday April 28, 2014 @08:43PM (#7664154)
Just a question out of sheer curiosity from a business perpective, how were you monetizing the site? What prompted a buyer to pay what I assume is real money for the site? Was it a 1k, 10k, 100k exit?
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Re:A Gossip App Brought My High School to a Halt by pkfrank on Monday April 28, 2014 @10:43PM (#7664588)
I monetized purely via display ads (a lot of second tier networks that would turn a blind eye to the libelous content), with fairly terrible CPM but lots of views.

I believe the purchase also monetized using paid CAPTCHAs (where the viewer has to watch a video / type a phrase), which probably did very well considering the sheer volume of posts.

Exit was on the latter order-of-magnitude.

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