@sarthakgh According to the owner's post on Reddit, he or she said some of the articles will be declined and a refund will be given back to the person who paid.
Hi guys, maker here. This was/is an experimental service where I didn't necessarily wanted to 'launch' but rather test a couple of things. Since it's hunted I might as well open it up for more feedback. Here's what I was testing:
1) The interest level of an article directory tailored to startups, to help spread educational content that help entrepreneurs in their rough journey.
Lesson learned: It's 'nice', not yet something people deeply love.
2) 'Potential' business model to help content writers attract an audience
Lesson learned: doesn't work. I'd have to refund people constantly if their content is not up to the standard of what's currently there (this has already happend multiple times).
This was launched as a very early beta on Reddit to test a few things and after receiving a ton of fantastic feedback, I started working on a totally different approach that is set to launch in the next 2 weeks.
Loving the Apple TV parallax effect going on.
Pretty ambitious goal of $25 million dollars ($25 dollars per article x 1 million), the price is pretty steep but we'll see how the collection grows.
Looks great and great to see one of my articles is on there (thanks!) but one issue I have is around maintaining the quality of content on there. To add more content you have to pay $25 - does this mean that any unmoderated article will be placed on there as long as it is paid for?
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Reminds me a lot of the @tewywww.milliondollarhomepage.com concept. I believe that concept worked because it got massive viral PR (features on TV etc) which back in the day when 1 pixel link to a website from a high pagerank site was an SEO goldmine, hence why so many people paid for slots.
In this case either you'd need to get enough traffic/hype/PR to the site to convince people that the 25 USD was worth paying, or possibly rely on people seeing it more like a donation to help others (bit skeptical, since the money is presumably for profit making purposes).
I personally think it would have been smarter to set the price barrier a bit lower at say 5 USD, or 1 USD if you really want to hit that goal.
Also keen to see how the UI improves when there is more content and how if you have many thousands of articles the service becomes valuable to end users over say, just googling a topic or searching on medium.
Interesting idea though, kudos.
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