Expensive Chat
Consumer and social
paid chat room
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
13 positive, 56 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 33 critical, out of 104 comments about the project. Thread score -0.19.
Idea: 7 for, 14 againstExecution: 1 for, 11 againstPricing: 1 for, 5 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean implementation and fun idea
From 1 comment
The implementation is clean AF and the idea is super fun! Really neat job there! This probably won't take off as-is but I feel like there's untapped potential to be leveraged.
ratsimihah on HN
Fresh, bold UI
From 1 comment
I shouldn't but I love the UI of this thing. It's fresh and bold.
keyle on HN
Objections
Looks like a cash grab rather than a real experiment
From 2 comments
What makes this different than any other business idea that legally convinces customers to part with their money?
vortico on HNWhen famed game designer Peter Molyneux came back out of hiding to launch his mobile games with a company called 22cans he also used the "social experiment" label to justify a…
pluma on HN
Site broke or showed errors under load
From 3 comments
Front-page of HN and its not working. No-one has said anything for 90 mins. I tried to chat, signed up, nothing happened.
codeulike on HNSeems to have gotten a hug of death showing a standard Rails error. "We're sorry, but something went wrong."
benbristow on HNI just get an "application error"
Krasnol on HN
Stripe fees make one-cent payments uneconomic
From 2 comments
Yes, but the costs are still the same. Even stripe has a 2.9% + 30¢ cost per transaction.
amingilani on HNAre you able to process payments as low as 1c and if so, aren't fees exceeding the amount charged?
vbo on HN
Spam and unicode abuse once it opened
From 2 comments
Now there's spam as well. Progress!
jpatokal on HNI just broke this website sending this: " ｓｅｎｄｉｎｇ ｕｎｉｃｏｄｅ ｃｈａｒａｃｔｅｒｓ ｆｏｒ ｆｕｎ "
gelo on HN
Requests
Support for other payment methods such as Lightning
From 2 comments
Lightning network, where are you?
yami on HNshould have used Lightning Network
r32a_ on HN
Charity donation of the proceeds
From 1 comment
What makes this a social experiment rather than a simple cash grab? Are you donating all the money to a charity?
jstanley on HN
Questions
Are the micropayments handled, given transaction fees?
From 2 comments
It looks like you're using stripe to process your payments. Does this mean that if I send a 1-character message it will cost you money?
aur09 on HNI’m curious,how are they processing the micropayments? Wouldn’t transaction fees crush them?
WMCRUN on HN
Is the money kept by the creator or donated?
From 1 comment
What makes this a social experiment rather than a simple cash grab? Are you donating all the money to a charity?
jstanley on HN
Alternatives named
The Million Dollar Homepage
From 1 comment
Reminds me of that 1000x1000 ad site from the 90's where you could buy an ad based on how many pixels you purchased. Allow someone to pay to set the chat room topic, the colour…
have_faith on HN
Highscore Money by the same maker
From 2 comments
Hi all. About 2.5 years ago I created Highscore Money. I was looking at pay-to-play games and wondered what would happen if you'd take it to the extreme. The result was just a…
keesj on HNThis looked oddly similar to https://highscore.money and... it’s the same guy, Marc. For what it’s worth, we had one of top ten spots on the highscore.money, got some traffic…
eps on HN
iota.show
From 1 comment
Something like that is still up, albeit with a cryptocurrency: http://iota.show I know, it is not exactly identical to what you are saying, but this is what came to mind, and the…
johnisgood on HN