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Show HN: IsRicherThanYou – Whoever pays the most stay on the front-page (isricherthanyou.com)
29 points by meghido1 2055 days ago
5 comments
SQLlover2000 2055 days ago
Like the million dollar homepage but dynamic!

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

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meghido1 2055 days ago
exactly!
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meghido1 2055 days ago
Hey HN! I’m Marco the creator of this project. It’s a social experiment, whoever pays the most get his name on the front-page!

You can link your website and get visit :)

You could see it like a milliondollarhomepage v2.0

For any feedback pleas leave a comment :)

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meghido1 2055 days ago
P.S. the profits will be donated to a charity organization
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awinder 2055 days ago
If I can kindly suggest, pick the charity and put “all proceeds will go to ___” on the page. It might save you some headaches later. Best of luck!
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Zhyl 2055 days ago
Or allow a selection of charities as people will have different areas of interest.

Definitely put a note up, though. My first thought when seeing this was a vivid image of someone laughing all the way to the bank.

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meghido1 2055 days ago
Yes I will definitely add this feature! thanks! I've tried to add more social proof possible ! even link my twitter profile. I don't want to be a scam!
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disown 2055 days ago
Is the charity organization called "My Bank Account"? Also, what do you mean by "profits". What are the expenses? After reading about hollywood accounting, I'm always suspicious about "profit".
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SkyMarshal 2055 days ago
When exactly?

As far as I can tell this is a never-ending contest, so are you donating the proceeds to charity on a rolling basis as soon as you receive them?

And are you donating 100% to charity, or using a portion to pay for the website/server/bandwidth/development costs?

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welder 2055 days ago
There should be a list of past people who paid on there.

Never mind, looks like there already is https://www.isricherthanyou.com/leaderboard

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klohto 2055 days ago
Good idea, but there is just no way I will put my card on random website, even though it's sent to Stripe :)
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awb 2055 days ago
I always thought it would be an interesting gambling game where folks bid just like this site, but the prize is instead all of the previous bids.

So, if the bids are $1, $2, $3, $4, the $4 bid would win $10 (minus a % take for the house).

The more bids there are, the higher the return for the ultimate winner, so bids could get quite high once it gets going past the first 2 or 3 bids.

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chedine 2055 days ago
Dang simple yet effective idea. Good job. Modern version of million dollar website I guess.
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meghido1 2055 days ago
Thanks :)
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