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Comment by Waterluvian | Hacker News Reader

This completely misses the point of the original. That it's dead simple, trivial to navigate, easy to see big buys.

This thing just chugs my phone and feels awful to interact with.

> This completely misses the point of the original.

No. You miss the point of the original. That it was a cash grab by the person who made it. In that regard this works just fine.

I'm highly skeptical that this implementation will be anywhere as effective. Time will tell.

If the author sells 5℅ of the space, they will have made 50k from a project probably thrown together over a weekend. That would not be a bad return!

This was actually an amazing experience on my phone, sucks you had that experience :(

I'm pretty sure the point of the original was to net the creator a million dollars.

Hah. Yes true. I guess I mean the goal of the implementation is to net a million dollars by _____.

He would have had to charge a lot more if he wanted to net a million dollars. He grossed less then $1.1M.

He did make a million dollars though?

Taxes, my friend. Taxes.

if it wasn't for taxes there wouldn't be an internet on which to host a million dollar homepage.

"After costs, taxes and a donation to The Prince's Trust, a charity for young people, Tew expected his net income to be $650,000–$700,000."

From Wikipedia.

Yeah I missed the "net" in the original comment. My bad. He grossed just over a million.

I wish it were my implementation.