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GiveYC: One month of free advertising space
15 points by khangtoh on April 7, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 34 comments
I wanted to repost this since my last submission was on Sunday and might not have got to the people I had wanted to help - BootStrappers.

Update: There is no catch! You do NOT have to link back to Simplebucket or anything like that.

Here's my pitch: One month of free advertising on my new site Simplebucket , url here: http://www.simplebucket.com/explore/photos

Here's the traffic that we have doing since our relaunch on March 20 to April 7. We are on track to getting more than 10000 visitors/month considering its only 17days from March 20th.

Traffic Stats (March 20 - April 7th) Absolute Unique: 6000+ Visitors: 6669 PageViews: 14400

What do I need to do to submit my startup? Add a comment here with your startup url and a brief description of what your startup does and the comment with the most points get the spot. How this?

*oh, I forget to add, I will reserve the right to select the next highest comment if the winner is a competing startup (ie. photo hosting ), I hope you understand.



http://bug.gd - Global error search engine and database.

Find an error? Search for it on bug.gd. If it's solved already, great, you're all set. If not, we email you in 48 hours and ask you to share your solution for the next lost soul.

Long term, we're trying to change how all software and operating systems handle errors. There's absolutely no reason it shouldn't be automatic that we're able to find people who ran into errors and how they got past them. Why are we all wasting so much time solving problems that have already been solved by others?


Very creative idea... I love seeing this kind of stuff going on in the news.yc community.

I'd like to offer up 1 month of bluwiki.com to the cause. Here are my stat's from google analytics (3/7 - 4/6): 325,934 Visits; 1,029,153 Pageviews; 3.16 Pages/Visit; 41.37% Bounce Rate; 00:05:58 Avg. Time on Site; 23.71% % New Visits; 86,076 Visitors

Reply to this post if you're you're a struggling startup and want a mention on my main page.


Debatewise needs your love - http://www.debatewise.com/. Plus if you start a debate between now and 14th May you could win a MacBook Air. More info on the Competition link from the home page.


Mobtropolis - a social photo scavenger hunt making it easy to photo stream your adventures, big or small, and get inspired to try new things. http://www.mobtropolis.com


Great stuff! How bout some love for NewsCred. We're launching our private alpha this week, and would appreciate any publicity from the trusted HN community. Wish us luck!


I'll submit Embought for this one as well. http://www.embought.com


http://markkit.net


Simplebucket could use some kind of "love" as well ;)


struggling startup? check

http://www.revzilla.com


http://www.dailygreenproject.com

Daily Green Project offers environmental earth friendly products while donating 10% of every sale to various non-profit and eco-friendly organizations. You shop with the earth in mind, so we then take that mentality further in donations and service projects in making a difference. This will begin to positively affect people who shop online as well as those who receive donations from the 10% we donate from each sale. So the strength of Daily Green Project is threefold: giving money to something you believe in, positively effecting the environment around you, and donating to charities that help to make the world a better place for everyone.

Daily Green Project members will also be doing hands on work to help non-profit organizations like Habitat for Humanity thrive in their giving. To support this program, we will take $1 of every sale and put it in our “DGP Fund”. This fund is for us to use as if we were one of the organizations you chose to donate to.


well if there is no catch I submit my new site Embought www.embought.com . It's a shopping search engine that donates 50% of its profits to charity.


Like it. You get my note for the charity side alone!


Thanks, I've been working non-stop for the last couple months to get it up and running. I'm in the home stretch (I'll hopefully 'launch' in the next week) and I'm starting to turn my attention to promotion and marketing.


So is the contest over? How can I contact you?


Debatewise - http://www.debatewise.com. Created because I wanted to find out what both sides of an issue thought and I found searching various blogs time-consuming and error-prone.

We allow debate creators to collaborate on their argument, wiki-style and present the points they make alongside the points of their opponents, so people can quickly compare the two.


http://mytipnetwork.com - just finished making it, thought it would be useful for bloggers.

creates a open page that lets your readers tip you off to news worthy things they find on the web.


http://www.revzilla.com - RevZilla Motorsports - an ecommerce startup

While what we are doing probably is not incredibly interesting to the new.yc demographic (selling motorcycle gear online), the technology behind it (rails + pgsql) and our end goal (becoming the #1 supplier online for the powersports industry (big market)) should be.

Our startup launched about 7 months ago and is starting to turn the corner into profitability. Trying to get traffic up anyway we can so a link would be much appreciated!


It's a book hotels on the maps site, we plan to add to it as we get more time. look it up http://www.seeyourhotel.com


I'd like to submit http://www.askurpals.com. A simple review/question-and-answer service that lets you control who gets to answer your question using your existing mailing lists like your yahoo groups or office mailing lists. Goal is to produce collection of quality answers from trusted sources for the community with no spam or trolls


Great stuff! How bout some love for NewsCred (http://www.newscred.com). We're launching our private alpha this week, and would appreciate any publicity from the trusted HN community. Wish us luck! If anyone wants invites and didnt sign up earlier, email me at shafqat[at]newscred.com!


Mobtropolis - a social photo scavenger hunt making it easy to photo stream your adventures, big or small, and get inspired to try new things. http://www.mobtropolis.com

Even though mobtropolis uses photos, it's focus isn't to host photos. I'd say it competes more with the likes of 43things.


http://www.thephotostream.com

The Photo Stream delivers buzz and newsworthy content to the masses through a rich, eye-opening photo interface.

This is a good fit for the free advertising space because although The Photo Stream is in the "photo" space -- we're not a photo host.


I like photostream, so I've put in my vote for it.


http://streamfocus.com Get things done and collaborate with our integrated project, workflow & action management system. We just launched limited beta after over a year of coding.


Spydentify: http://spydentify.com/ People love looking a pictures and trying to figure out what’s in them.

And it's not photo hosting (in fact, it's specifically configured to disallow photo hosting).


http://markkit.net

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After almost 24hours, here's the update submission. I will keep this open until 11:59PM EST APRIL 8th and then declare the winner!

Please prepare a 125x125 jpg for your ad space.

1) Embought.com 6pts

2) bug.gd 5pts

The rest in no particular order

markkit.net 2pts

mytipnetwork.com 2pts

www.seeyourhotel.com 2pts

www.debatewise.com 2pts

spydentify.com 1pt

feedity.com 1pt

newscred.com 1pt

thephotostream.com 1pt

streamfocus.com 1pt

askurpals.com 1pt

mobtropolis.com 1pt

dailygreenproject.com 1pt


Looks like the spot goes to Embought.com, please send me a 125x125 image with the url you want to link to the email below

advertise ..... at .... simplebucket.com


Cool! Here's ours: http://feedity.com - Create RSS feeds for any webpage. Track webpage changes in real-time. Pull data for mashups.


This is not meant as a dis, just a curiousity question. Is ~2 page views/unique typical for a photo sharing site? At first glance, that seems low.


Simple. we just had the explore feature up this weekend, before there was no other ways to see other uploaded photos.


so there is no catch?


no .. nothing.. one month of free advertising


ok haha sweet... my submission is www.hangmanworld.com - the best hangman game on the internet :)




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