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I want to make a website that allows people to upload files, and allows linking to the uploaded files. But I have no idea how to monetize it. I can't really think of any premium features I could charge for, and I don't think putting adverts on the site will be effective, since most of the traffic will probably be of people just viewing the files, not the website and ads placed there. Has anyone got any suggestions? Has anyone seen how other similar sites monetize it?

Thanks!

Hi,

I'm hoping to write a poker website where people can deposit, play with, and withdraw cryptocurrencies.

My current idea is to use NowPayments as a crypto gateway that will facilitate receiving and sending crypto on the website.

When someone deposits, it would be represented as either say USD or just "poker chips" on the website, equivalent to the current value of that crypto in USD. When they withdraw, they will be withdrawing crypto, using their USD balance, at the current exchange rate of their chosen crypto.

But I'm worried that I could end up out of pocket if the value of the crypto changes significantly between them depositing and withdrawing as crypto.

For example. Say they deposit 1 monero, worth $100. A month later, they withdraw the $100. If, say, 1 monero is then worth $200, I only pay them 0.5 monero, so technically I've made money out of fluctuation in value. But say 1 monero is now worth $50, I have to pay them 2 monero. So I'll be out of pocket $50?

It would also be ideal if this system can work so users can withdraw a different crypto to the one they deposited.

The reason I thought about doing it this way is I want to be able to accept and send any of the 70 cryptocurrencies that NowPayments support, and allow players to play poker with a single currency, say USD. (Or it could be an arbitrary made-up currency, e.g. simply "poker chips".)

What system can I use so that I won't be out of pocket when crypto values change, yet have a single "currency" that players play with on poker tables?

Hopefully there's someone financially more intelligent than me that has an answer to this!

Thanks!

I'm a PHP/Javascript programmer. My marketing skills aren't great. And I have virtually no money to invest; I'll have to rely on my labour creating the value. But I'm hoping there is some sort of web application I could make to make a little bit of money. I've had a number of ideas, but they all have huge problems.

1. URL shortener. Too many sites already exist, they're very popular, and offer most of their services for free. I don't know how I could cost effectively attract people to pay for the paid services since so few people would pay.
2. Survey website. Too many sites like Google and Microsoft offer free survey web apps already. There are some paid ones but most people use the free ones and I don't know how I could compete with the large companies that are either free or offer extensive functionality.
3. Cryptocurrency poker website. I'd have to comply with all the gambling regulations of all the countries I want to operate in. Legal costs would be enormous. At least $1m.
4. A web application that gives educational organisations an online exam-taking facility, with time-limited exams that can then be graded by an examiner. The problem is marketing it, firstly, and secondly, fulfilling all the requirements of the organisation. They probably all already have such a system, and I'd need a very good reason for them to choose my system instead, and I'd probably have to write a system that integrates with all their existing systems. It would be an awful lot of work for one person, I don't think I can do it, even ignoring the marketing.

And a big barrier to almost any idea I have is marketing and advertising. SEO is very difficult. Extremely competitive. It's extremely hard getting onto the top page of Google, and I don't think I can achieve it for any keywords that bring paying customers. And as for advertising, it's so expensive. Untargeted advertising requires your product to be applicable to a large proportion of people. And targeted advertising is incredibly expensive. At least $0.50 per click typically, sometimes going up to $20. I don't know how I can possibly turn that into a profit for any idea I've had. I've also tried promoting on social media, but I have a very small following and have not been able to increase that. Word of mouth could work, assuming I get an initial userbase that grows naturally. But that requires an initial userbase, and a whole load of tricks to encourage people to share my site with others. The only other idea I've had for marketing is to implement an affiliate marketing scheme where I pay people commission for every customer they send me. But then some how I need to find affiliate marketers! I don't know how to do that cost effectively.

If anyone has any ideas for web applications I could create, and not have too much trouble marketing, I'd love to hear them.

I don't really care how much money I make, as long as it's profit. This would just be a side project. I'm on disability payments long term so have a roof over my head however it goes. I just don't have much money to invest, at all. Just my time.

Thank you so much

Hi,

I need to send a text, or maybe two, to 27 mobile phone numbers in the UK. I'm looking for the cheapest way to do this.

Do you know any providers that allow small deposits for such a use case?

DinoSMS had a minimum of £5 deposit but the texts didn't go through! Really crap. And all the other providers I've found require a minimum of £20 deposit. I just don't need to send that many texts. (TransmitSMS, WinSMS, TextMagic). And others which looked like they might be a good option had appalling user interfaces which were simply unusable.

Anyone got any alternatives? Thanks!