There is a slight element of sour grapes in the undertone of many of these comments.
"Its just php scripts", "I could knock that up in a weekend".
These are pretty poor arguments.
Not that many of you care but im slightly surprised at some off the negativity.
What exactly is the difference between people paying him 3 quid and neopets, facebook ( the list goes on ) which sells virtual goods.
One side, comments regularly complain about sites with ads.
Here is a guy, who has an income stream on a website which is not purely ad based. Yet half of you guys are ripping it apart as a simple knocked up site.
I wish I could knock a text-based game up in the weekend, yet we all know there is a lot more to building an app ( yes this would be an app in my eyes ).
As rightfully pointed out, he has somehow found a huge userbase. Tapped it and has made something which gives value ( i'm guessing in the form of entertainment and escapism ) to his users, so much so that they come back everyday.
As for his actual site, I read the article and signed up, took me less than 5mins to leave. Thats just me. His site is shocking and thats polite. Yet it works for him very well.
These are my thoughts I accept I might be in the minority here and most of the people who comment on HN own / run websites which have turnovers of more than 100,000 pounds / month.
"Its just php scripts", "I could knock that up in a weekend".
These are pretty poor arguments.
Not that many of you care but im slightly surprised at some off the negativity.
What exactly is the difference between people paying him 3 quid and neopets, facebook ( the list goes on ) which sells virtual goods.
One side, comments regularly complain about sites with ads.
Here is a guy, who has an income stream on a website which is not purely ad based. Yet half of you guys are ripping it apart as a simple knocked up site.
I wish I could knock a text-based game up in the weekend, yet we all know there is a lot more to building an app ( yes this would be an app in my eyes ).
As rightfully pointed out, he has somehow found a huge userbase. Tapped it and has made something which gives value ( i'm guessing in the form of entertainment and escapism ) to his users, so much so that they come back everyday.
As for his actual site, I read the article and signed up, took me less than 5mins to leave. Thats just me. His site is shocking and thats polite. Yet it works for him very well.
These are my thoughts I accept I might be in the minority here and most of the people who comment on HN own / run websites which have turnovers of more than 100,000 pounds / month.
Commence downgrading of my karma;)