The student is going to make his million dollars

Pal · 06-12-2005 12:47pm #1

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

story been told before. But update. it looks like he is going to do it.

fascinating.

well done sonny

seamus · 06-12-2005 12:51pm

Fantastic. Shows how with a simple idea and some viral marketing, you can make astronomical returns on a minimal investment. He should get a young entrepreneur award tbh.

RuggieBear · 06-12-2005 12:53pm

seamus wrote:

Fantastic. Shows how with a simple idea and some viral marketing, you can make astronomical returns on a minimal investment. He should get a young entrepreneur award tbh.

i think the money is enough:)

AARRRGH · 06-12-2005 12:54pm

What I find funny is that it's not actually a good idea, yet it works!! (not sure if this is a good or bad thing.)

I'm happy for him though!

magpie · 06-12-2005 12:57pm

The prick

seamus · 06-12-2005 12:57pm

dublindude wrote:

What I find funny is that it's not actually a good idea, yet it works!! (not sure if this is a good or bad thing.)

The product is awful, but the idea is great. I'm not sure why anyone would surf to a site populated by ads, but advertisers would be happy to pay small amounts to join a gimmick bandwagon. It's a one-off thing that wouldn't have been successful if it hadn't been original. It's the gimmick that he's selling to advertisers, not the adspace.

By comparison - www.milliondollarwebpage.com - is a clone, with little or no space sold.

Angels · 06-12-2005 12:57pm

Pal wrote:

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

story been told before. But update. it looks like he is going to do it.

fascinating.

well done sonny

This guy is amazing a simple concept but obviously very effective. Oh my god he is going to be a million are smart fecker!!!

fade · 06-12-2005 1:04pm

magpie wrote:

The prick

my sentiments exactly

fair play though, clever idea

Spicy Lauren · 06-12-2005 1:10pm

I say Fair Play to Him!

Endurance Man · 06-12-2005 1:23pm

Gotta love the one caption there : "Women Pixels"

Miss Fluff · 06-12-2005 1:25pm

Ingenius, lovin' his work!!:D

Dave! · 06-12-2005 1:34pm

ugh, the same day that I find out the idea I've been trying to design has already been done... depressing day.

Féar plé anyways...

Earthhorse · 06-12-2005 2:04pm

seamus wrote:

The product is awful, but the idea is great. I'm not sure why anyone would surf to a site populated by ads, but advertisers would be happy to pay small amounts to join a gimmick bandwagon. It's a one-off thing that wouldn't have been successful if it hadn't been original. It's the gimmick that he's selling to advertisers, not the adspace.

Not so sure about that. According to the testimonials page the page is actually generating a lot of traffic for them.

Orion · 02-01-2006 2:48am

He's done it (almost). The last 1000 pixels are being auctioned off on Ebay.

At time of writing the last bid is $6100

Fair balls to him.

simu · 02-01-2006 3:43am

Internet begging eh?

Some eejits would waste money on anything.

daveirl · 02-01-2006 10:03am

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Ozzy · 02-01-2006 11:43am

You've got to say though, what a great idea. Money for nothing!

Meanwhile in Europe...

http://www.millioneuropage.com/

MrJoeSoap · 02-01-2006 11:47am

Ooh the envy! Why didn't I think of that!

here are still literally hundreds of people e-mailing me wanting pixels on the homepage. Some are wondering why I don't open a second page. Well, I won't do that because I am determined to maintain the integrity and degree of exclusivity intrinsic to the million-pixel concept. Therefore, I am doing the most fair and logical thing and auctioning the last 1,000 pixels off on eBay.

I love the "I'm Rich, Your Not" banner in the top left.

Anyone want to chip in for "I can spell, you can't" one?

Rb · 02-01-2006 1:15pm

He's a genius.
Fair play to him.

The Bollox · 02-01-2006 1:15pm

there's some nice coding on the original page, the clone is ****e

GLaDOS · 02-01-2006 4:30pm

Hehehe, very clever

Blisterman · 02-01-2006 6:52pm

http://www.pixel-mart.com/
Another, much less successful clone.

carpothepunk · 02-01-2006 6:59pm

21000 dollars is the bid on ebay

Made by one US-Government-Com or something like that:p

Cake Fiend · 02-01-2006 7:13pm

magpie wrote:

The prick

What's your problem? Jealous you didn't think of it first?

Rolleyes at all the begrudgers.

Piste · 02-01-2006 7:49pm

Haha that's a very smart idea, but wouldn't the cos of hosting take up some of the money from the million he makes?

Töpher · 02-01-2006 7:55pm

Piste wrote:

Haha that's a very smart idea, but wouldn't the cos of hosting take up some of the money from the million he makes?

Very little.

RefulgentGnomon · 02-01-2006 8:57pm

Is the minimum size 100 pixels though?

StupidLikeAFox · 02-01-2006 10:19pm

http://www.marypoconnor.com/dogwall.html <-- stumbled across that on it

There are a lot of clones advertising on it

flogen · 02-01-2006 10:39pm

There's an Irish rip off that was advertised by some spammer a while back, I won't do him the favour of linking it though. It's sold nothing, mind you.

Great idea, so simple. I bet everyone, like me, who saw it thought "why the hell didn't I think of that?". The clones are pathetic, the site isn't a success because it's a great way to advertise your site, it's because it's so unique that everyone visits it and goes on from there. On paper all of those companies were ripped off for what they got, but in practice he hit an untapped phenomenon that led to huge traffic for advertisers.

It's also stupid for clones to charge the same per pixel, when until now you could get the same deal on a much more popular site.
Why not sell it for 1c per pixel? It would still make you some money (if you sold out) and would be more enticing too. These idiots have no business sense... UNDERCUT!!! Now they just have a useless website that costs them money
Fair play to the bloke, spend it wisely!

02-01-2006 10:39pm

fair play to him!hes just an average joe who came up with a brilliant idea!

spiderlegs · 02-01-2006 11:35pm

Genius...and I see he's sold 999,999 pixels which means he's almost a millionaire...so simple and easy.and so much money because of it!! :eek:

mickymg2003 · 03-01-2006 12:16am

Damn simple ideas. Shame on me for being intelligent and complex!!!

jrey1981 · 03-01-2006 1:48am

I read he has had various job offers and is said to have other ideas in the pipeline...

Dave! · 09-01-2006 5:28pm

He was just on Richard and Judy (my mam called me in, I don't watch it

), said he's not going back to uni until at least September, cos he's getting various job offers. Fair play.

OLDYELLAR · 09-01-2006 5:34pm

He was just on Richard and Judy , Fair play to him.

edit/ I dont watch either Dave

/edit

Sparky · 09-01-2006 5:42pm

jesus the bid on the ebay offering is massive now

smoke.me.a.kipper · 09-01-2006 6:03pm

fair play to him.

Mmmm_Lemony · 09-01-2006 6:39pm

Think he's rich now? Wait until he starts printing t-shirts.

Think about it. It's the new smiley face.

The Million Dollar T-Shirt, Baseball Cap, Poster, Action Figure etc... etc...

rabbitinlights · 09-01-2006 6:41pm

Didnt take too long, I remember when that was @ about $30,000...

£90,000 for the last 1000 pixels. Madness.

jonny68 · 09-01-2006 7:03pm

I take my Armani hat off to this lad

whiskeyman · 09-01-2006 7:16pm

Mmmm_Lemony wrote:

Think he's rich now? Wait until he starts printing t-shirts.

Think about it. It's the new smiley face.

The Million Dollar T-Shirt, Baseball Cap, Poster, Action Figure etc... etc...

Screw all that......I'm waiting for the jigsaw!

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 09-01-2006 7:51pm

Holy ****, they're going for 160 grand at the moment

Stabshauptmann · 09-01-2006 8:32pm

lot of black spots though isnt there?

Edit:Oh yeah, and fair focks to him. Genius

Random · 09-01-2006 8:50pm

One day, an idea such as this will be mine

Dave! · 09-01-2006 9:03pm

whiskeyman wrote:

Screw all that......I'm waiting for the jigsaw!

qz · 09-01-2006 9:08pm

Blisterman wrote:

http://www.pixel-mart.com/
Another, much less successful clone.

From the blog:

I love it when people mention Pixel-Mart.com in their forums/blogs.

* musick.blogspot.com - "Ah, yes the imitators have already begun..."
* www.boards.ie - "Another, much less successful clone."
* forums.somethingawful.com - This guy actually Photoshopped my Million Dollar Homepage link.

lol!

dlofnep · 10-01-2006 9:08am

I rememebr when that first started off.. It had only around 20 people who bought space from him. Amazing!

Pal · 10-01-2006 9:27am

US$ 160.000 is the bid now for the last 10 boxes.

UNREAL !!!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5652179487&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:UK:31

DG Leixlip · 12-01-2006 10:21pm

Just got an email about an Irish guy trying the same thing at: http://www.millionpixelpaddy.com

Anyone else get this mail??

whiskeyman · 12-01-2006 10:26pm

DG Leixlip wrote:

Anyone else get this mail??

Nope... I delete spam.

Mate of yours?
Nice to see originality alive and well...

segadreamcast · 12-01-2006 10:29pm

whiskeyman wrote:

Nope... I delete spam.

Mate of yours?
Nice to see originality alive and well...

Mmm, one wonders.

I'm amazed that this worked. When I first saw the site - I'd say 1000 pixels were sold and, to be honest, I thought "what a load of..." and instantly wrote it off. To say the least, I'm surprised. Very well done to him. This is genuinely the first simple business idea that I thought would definitely flop but which has, infact, gone on to do the opposite...

... I wonder what his future plans are... with that million behind him, he'll find it a lot easier to realise his ambitions for sure!

The student is going to make his million dollars

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