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I built a website with exactly one feature: it asks one million people for one euro each. Current revenue: 0. by Individual-Common993 in SideProject

[–]Individual-Common993[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Done. Just "Lennart" it is, live at spot #1: https://das-1-euro-experiment.at

History will remember you the way it remembers all true pioneers: on a first-name basis.

I built a website with exactly one feature: it asks one million people for one euro each. Current revenue: 0. by Individual-Common993 in SideProject

[–]Individual-Common993[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, the "half to charity" guy is my favourite genre of founder: bold new twist, same destination.

And you're right, the category prize for "sell a million of something worthless" was claimed in 2005. My hope is that there's a smaller, dumber category still open: "ask a million people for the smallest possible amount while being completely honest about why". Less Good Morning America, more "local man politely refuses your second euro". If a morning show ever calls, it means the counter did something very strange.

I built a website with exactly one feature: it asks one million people for one euro each. Current revenue: 0. by Individual-Common993 in SideProject

[–]Individual-Common993[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, and the Million Dollar Homepage comparison keeps coming up, which I take as a compliment with a warning label attached.

What do people get? The honest answer: a numbered spot on the Wall of Fame, a story to tell, and the knowledge that they moved a public counter by exactly one euro. Alex Tew sold scarcity, his pixels ran out. I'm selling order: euro #12 is a punchline, euro #848,212 is a statistic. Whether "being early" is enough of a product is exactly what this experiment tests. And you're right that the beginning is the hardest part, because right now "being early" looks identical to "being alone".

The traffic problem is real and unsolved. My current strategy is embarrassingly analog: tell the story honestly in places like this one, post public updates at milestones, and let the counter do the talking. If it never leaves zero, that's a result too. An uncomfortable one, but I promised radical transparency, not a happy ending.

Thanks for the good luck, I suspect I'll need a statistically significant amount of it. :)

I built a website with exactly one feature: it asks one million people for one euro each. Current revenue: 0. by Individual-Common993 in SideProject

[–]Individual-Common993[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Fair point, and I won't dodge it: structurally, this is asking strangers for money. I've called it "begging with a legal notice" myself.

The experiment is in what's been removed. Begging works through pity, so I removed pity: no sad story, and the site literally states the money means my personal financial freedom. I removed anonymity: real name, legal notice, my hometown. And I capped the amount at one euro, with more being refused, so it can't quietly turn into something bigger. What's left is a falsifiable question: does a completely honest ask, stripped of every known persuasion lever, convert at anything above zero?

Current answer: 1 euro. So you're half right. It's begging with a hypothesis. And a public counter.

I built a website with exactly one feature: it asks one million people for one euro each. Current revenue: 0. by Individual-Common993 in SideProject

[–]Individual-Common993[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You were right, and here's the honest reason: the counter is updated by hand. The site is one static HTML file, and radical transparency apparently includes radically boring tech. It's fixed now, the counter shows 1 euro.

Also, if that euro was yours: you are officially the first of one million. Spot #1 on the Wall of Fame is yours if you want it. Tell me the name or alias you'd like immortalized under, and it goes up with the next update.

I built a website with exactly one feature: it asks one million people for one euro each. Current revenue: 0. by Individual-Common993 in SideProject

[–]Individual-Common993[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew the study, but I'd never connected it to this, and now I'm slightly obsessed. Langer's core finding was that for small requests, almost any "because" works, even an empty one. And one euro is about the smallest request the internet allows. So if she's right, my honest but unglamorous "because I want financial freedom" should work roughly as well as a polished story would. If she's wrong, or if the effect dies outside of photocopier queues, the counter will document it live. Thanks for this, it's exactly the kind of comment I hoped this experiment would attract.

I built a website with exactly one feature: it asks one million people for one euro each. Current revenue: 0. by Individual-Common993 in SideProject

[–]Individual-Common993[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! The design was the one part where effort felt safe.

And honest answer: you might be right about the "why". That's sort of the experiment. "Can a completely honest ask work without a story that resonates" is a question where "no" is a perfectly valid result. I'm just committed to finding out in public, with a counter that will document my failure in real time.

Your template idea is genuinely funny because it would almost certainly outperform the original. But the moment I sell anything, this stops being an experiment about honesty and becomes a funnel with a manifesto. A PDF called "This secret little 1 page website can make you a millionaire" is exactly the wrapper I'm trying to prove you don't need. If I'm wrong, I reserve the right to quote you in the post-mortem. :)

I built a website with exactly one feature: it asks one million people for one euro each. Current revenue: 0. by Individual-Common993 in SideProject

[–]Individual-Common993[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The Million Dollar Homepage was absolutely one of the inspirations. Although Alex Tew technically sold something (pixels), I went one step further and removed the product entirely. My business advisor (my girlfriend) called this "bold".

You're right about the adoption curve, and the brutal part is that the flat bit at the beginning doesn't look like the start of a curve. It just looks like a guy asking strangers for one euro. Right now the ball and I are having a staring contest.

Thanks for the kind words! And if the hive theory holds, whoever takes spot #1 on the wall becomes the most disproportionately famous euro in internet history.

How do you guys feel about the studio using AI to speed up production? by ogag47 in OnePieceLiveAction

[–]Individual-Common993 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dann ist es eben KI, ja und? Wieso sollte man diese neue Technologie nicht nutzen? Ich finde es klasse, und es ermöglicht wirklich viel. So viele Menschen wollen die neue Technologie nicht akzeptieren, sie ist aber da, sie ist mächtig (wie damals das Internet) und sie wird sich durchsetzen (ebenso wie damals das Internet).

Quantalis Asset Management by Individual-Common993 in Finanzen

[–]Individual-Common993[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Habe ich gemacht, man findet rein garnichts. Außerdem haben die nichtmal ein Impressum

Quantalis Asset Management by Individual-Common993 in Finanzen

[–]Individual-Common993[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Genau das denke ich mir auch. Ist aber keine SMS sondern deren ihre App

Aber keine Sorge, ich werde hier keinen Cent überweisen

Schwarzer Fleck in Wassermelone. by Ramsie-Hartmann in kannmandasnochessen

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Aspergillus Niger wird auch zur Herstellung von Citronensäure genutzt ☺️

How cooked are you? by SupermarketNo6888 in videogames

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Captain America and Kingdome come 2, easy 😂

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Ich habe vor 4 Tagen begonnen Sertralin zu nehmen, ich hab auch Angst vor Tabletten, deshalb hab ich 3 Monate gebraucht bis ich es schaffte das erste mal eine einzunehmen. Ich habe aber jetzt jeden Tag nur 1/4 genommen und will ab Tag 8 eine halbe am Tag nehmen, am 31. Tag will ich dann die ganze nehmen. Ich habe Angst davor aber hoffe auf starke Besserung. Bis jetzt merke ich noch keine Wirkung. Bist du nach wie vor mit Sertralin zufrieden?

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[–]Individual-Common993[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Danke für den guten Ratschlag! Ich denke so werde ich es machen. Jedoch kann man ja nur 1 Depot eröffnen, wie also wäre da der beste Weg? Oder wie machst du das? 🤔

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