[HN Gopher] Show HN: Nothingly - The gift of nothing
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Show HN: Nothingly - The gift of nothing
Author : alexnothingly
Score : 38 points
Date : 2021-01-14 16:10 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| somacore wrote:
| Please tell me your purchase confirmation page says "thanks for
| nothing."
| mh44 wrote:
| Please tell me you're at least if donating the $ to charity!
| ibraheemdev wrote:
| Why was this flagged?
| rimeice wrote:
| Maybe because it all just leads to nothing.
| alexnothingly wrote:
| Not sure, ultimately it's just a bit of a silly side project.
| It's a shame it would get flagged.
| rimeice wrote:
| Agreed. Well thanks for bringing a chuckle to my day.
| rimeice wrote:
| So much censorship going on in the world right now.
| ravroid wrote:
| This is hilarious. Paying money to passive-aggressively insult
| somebody, I think you may have invented a new market. Has this
| product generated any revenue yet?
| olooney wrote:
| I like the way the form is "in situ." Like filling in Mad Libs.
| alexnothingly wrote:
| Thanks :) I actually borrowed the idea from another company who
| were using that approach for their contact us form and it
| seemed like a nice change.
| ibraheemdev wrote:
| I'm curious, how many purchases do you get per month?
| alexnothingly wrote:
| Let's just put it this way. I still have a full time job.
| _jstreet wrote:
| Are you hiring?
| frabjoused wrote:
| Hopefully none.
| oceliker wrote:
| Reminds me of what Cards Against Humanity did for Black Friday
| some years ago:
|
| https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/
| liquidify wrote:
| You should set it up so that people can send cryptocurrencies
| that are provably burned. Then you could pay something to no one
| to send nothing to someone.
| alexnothingly wrote:
| Hahaha, love it.
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| Clever. Of course then they wouldn't be making money. Anyway,
| what's truly "provably" burned?
|
| Might as well send them an individualized clip of a Lincoln or
| Jackson being set on fire.
| liquidify wrote:
| the genesis block is not spendable
| deweller wrote:
| A provably burn address has an improbable chance of having a
| known private key.
|
| Here are well-known burn addresses for bitcoin and ethereum:
|
| https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/111111111111111111111.
| .. https://etherscan.io/address/0x000000000000000000000000000
| 00...
|
| Just send crypto to these addresses and they will be forever
| lost.
| gruez wrote:
| >Anyway, what's truly "provably" burned?
|
| https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/how-to-
| gene...
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| Your layout is broken on iOS. The text appears above the intro
| header. https://i.imgur.com/CoUTRvW.png
| alexnothingly wrote:
| Thanks, I'll look into it.
| alexnothingly wrote:
| Should be fixed now :)
| lukashed wrote:
| I was a bit surprised how much metadata Apple includes for this
| shared picture (in some of the XHR responses). Not only your
| email address (the same that's on your HN profile so I assume
| that doesn't hurt) but also what seems to be your device's name
| ("i" followed by a part of your last name) as well as what
| looks to be a unique ID of your device and your timezone (are
| you GMT-6?).
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| Wow, you're not kidding! I've never used it before but was
| frustrated by how broken my other choices were and didn't
| realize how bad that could be. (First choice: imgur. No
| longer supporting upload from mobile without their app and
| mandatory sign in. Second choice: DropBox. Their extension is
| broken and it saved it as a PDF. Then it saved it as a PNG
| explicitly but the app was making it too hard to get the
| direct link to the image without using their share sheet and
| specifying an email address to send to.)
|
| (I am indeed GMT -6, for at least some chunk of the year
| anyway.)
| antoineMoPa wrote:
| Reminds me of this podcast title I saw yesterday on StackOverflow
| :
|
| "Podcast 303: What would you pay for /dev/null as a service?" [1]
|
| [1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/12/podcast-303-what-
| would...
|
| (I did not listen though)
| trestenhortz wrote:
| If it was giving to charity, and not telling people they are
| worthless, it might be a good novelty in this world where gift
| giving has become a meaningless waste of money. "I'm giving you
| nothing, but some less fortunate kid got school books!"
|
| As it stands it just comes across as being mean/nasty.
| lkbm wrote:
| I love this. It's simple and clever. I hope you make some money.
|
| I'm reminded of the "I am Rich" iPhone app[0], but less offensive
| to the sensibilities. It's just a small art project where the
| performance art aspect centers around the observer giving the
| artist money.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
| [deleted]
| offtop5 wrote:
| Nothing as a service.
|
| NAAS.
|
| One wonders , if you can get 20 people to actually use this would
| you have the most efficient startup ever created.
| cmstoken wrote:
| Absolutely Brilliant!
| x32n23nr wrote:
| While this may very well be the simplest piece of software that
| makes money, I have a conceptual bone to pick:
|
| If you spend money to make a point, the recipient does mean
| something.
| [deleted]
| waynesonfire wrote:
| I'D RATHER GIVE YOU NOTHING THAN PAY FOR YOUR COLLEGE EDUCATION!!
|
| _types h-t-t-p-s-:- /-/-w-w-w-.-n-o-t-h-... _
| Ashanmaril wrote:
| So basically Reddit Gold
| jdbiggs wrote:
| can you email us? john@gizmodo.com
| iakh wrote:
| This is great. Much more altruistic than my project [1] that
| charges people for nothing in return
|
| [1] https://lapse.cc/
| repartix wrote:
| Try flipping it around. Instead of you spending a lot to prove
| someone means nothing, have them spend a lot to prove they mean
| something. Check out my Show HN from yesterday.
| raylennon wrote:
| Ultimately nothing is the best give ever! ;)
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