I thought of the exact same idea about 3 years ago. I didn't pursue it due to other circumstances (i.e. being far too busy), so I'm glad to see someone is taking it forward. I wish you the best of luck. The quality of the service and not to mention your website looks stunning. And that's what it takes to really make it!
I really like what you've done. Torrent sites never had a clean look, and you are making it first. You are trying to make the world suck less, and i dig that. keep up the good work, and I really hope you can establish a legitimate business model based on this.
Thanks a lot, really didn't expect this kind of traffic. If you ever want to get in touch you can reach me at mislav@<website-domain> or through our slack that's on our landing page and inside console
Thank you for information. Yeah, I was considering that you might be working hard on scaling these days. The site seems to work mostly well, so you seem to be doing a good job there.
Thank you very much for the email you sent me too.
Funny, although I'm only reading HN every once in a while I do remember your post. My first thought was that you would never get a decent business from that. Was very impressed after I had actually clicked the link and seen the site. Today I'm even more impressed, your site looks professional and you've found a pricing model that seems viable. Not talking about your 17k users which in itself is an impressive number to achieve!
I wish you success and a sustainable business, you deserve it!
Thank you! I'm in the same boat and think that it's a great potential way forward, with very little friction - it can work on any random blog without me having to trust them with my payment details. I hope more people pick up on it ( and tried to help with an article that somehow got to #1 on HN, but the comments were mostly negative)
Noted, thank you. It is definitely something that I can add. As I mentioned in the comments, the site originated as a project for my own personal use and I live in the US, but if it evolves into something that the public shows interest in and I turn it into a side business, expanding to other territories will definitely be on my radar.
Hi Ben, really nice site, bookmarked. I am curious, if you are open to sharing, what your business model is? I assume Amazon affiliates or similar, but do you have other plans for monetisation or is this more a side project for you? Either way, congrats!
Thanks a lot! My hope is actually to operate the site as a going concern (with a paid version offering additional features). We saw what happened last time someone sold one of these bookmarking sites to a big company...
Thank you! The competition is incredibly black hat. Try running the sites listed for 'web hosting reviews' under some SEO tools and it's often very clear which black hat strategies they are using (blog spamming, edu/gov spam, etc). I haven't been able to crack the top search terms yet because it's incredibly competitive and it's not a level/fair playing field. But working on creating some interesting content and building high quality links will hopefully pay off in the long run.
I am always open to ideas and suggestions for how to market this better. And I appreciate you sharing it!
I run a monitoring service that's built on top of PhantomJS. Happy to chat anytime about the tech or what I've learned about the business.
It would help to have a clear call to action from the homepage. One thing to keep in mind is that most major hosting companies don't charge for inbound traffic any more so pulling data is basically free.
Put you in my address book in case I ever develop for a UK-audience site.
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