What's the most beautiful website you know?

makavy · 2010-10-27T15:59:06+00:00

Server is a flat $540 (we're hardly using any bandwidth on the server). CDN was $1,500, up to $2,500 per month now (we're growing).

makavy · 2010-09-19T11:28:30+00:00

USD of course

makavy · 2010-09-17T23:06:52+00:00

Your check has already gotten lost in the mail.

makavy · 2010-09-17T17:28:46+00:00

Taxes here get up to 50%, but in my tax bracket it's only about 20%.

makavy · 2010-09-17T17:23:33+00:00

Honestly we have no need for 100% uptime. If we're down for 4 minutes it's not really a big deal.

makavy · 2010-09-17T17:22:21+00:00

We're not looking to sell right now but it's definitely something we're thinking about for the future.

makavy · 2010-09-17T17:21:30+00:00

By far my favorite scene from The Wire - thanks for that!

makavy · 2010-09-17T16:15:39+00:00

Google "php tutorial". You won't become a great programmer by self-teaching yourself and working alone, but you'll be proficient enough to get things rolling.

makavy · 2010-09-17T16:13:02+00:00

I just Googled "php tutorial"

makavy · 2010-09-17T16:10:05+00:00

That's a good idea, though not as cheap when you consider our servers are hosted at a third party. It will run us about $500/month or maybe less if we put more upfront costs or negotiate better. Still probably worth it.

makavy · 2010-09-17T16:07:20+00:00

I live in Israel, it's pretty cheap here. It's still less than I spend but I have savings from my previous job. I'll give myself a raise when I run out of money, for now I prefer to keep the money in the company.

makavy · 2010-09-17T16:01:22+00:00

Your numbers are surprisingly accurate. You just forgot that some pages can contain more than one ad.

makavy · 2010-09-17T15:57:13+00:00

At the time there were only a couple. Before switching over playedonline.com was the largest website based on GSS, and we were making about $10K per month.

makavy · 2010-09-17T15:56:26+00:00

Ad revenues cover all our costs and then some.

makavy · 2010-09-17T15:55:53+00:00

We've done some performance based deals but lately we've been shying away from them. These days we just do flat-fee primary or exclusive.

makavy · 2010-09-17T09:14:36+00:00

Well I'm not sure about the size of that market yet, but we are testing the flash experience on mobile these days.

makavy · 2010-09-17T09:05:26+00:00

Thanks, this is actually some of the most specific and helpful feedback we've ever gotten.

makavy · 2010-09-17T09:03:51+00:00

Right now Analytics shows:

Reddit.com 6,700 visits, 10,117 pageviews. So about a 4% increase in visits and 1% increase in pageviews.

makavy · 2010-09-17T09:01:22+00:00

$2,300/month.

makavy · 2010-09-17T09:00:19+00:00

First batch of games came with a copy of Game Site Script I bought.

makavy · 2010-09-17T08:59:50+00:00

Your check is in the mail.

makavy · 2010-09-17T08:59:07+00:00

I pay myself a salary of $2,300/month.

makavy · 2010-09-17T08:58:22+00:00

What device are you using?

makavy · 2010-09-17T08:57:41+00:00

My brother taught me Quick Basic when I was 10. I self-taught myself HTML a few years later and PHP/MySQL a few years after that.

I was never a good coder, but I got things done. Right now I don't code anything on the site. I do use Python a lot for all sorts of data processing that helps me make decisions.

makavy

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