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Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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http://www.upverge.com

The advertiser is misspelled in the below page,

http://www.upverge.com/advertisers

If you are an ""advertisor"" interested in being a member of our affiliates program,

So now, are you sure you will get thousands of users?

As a User, why should I come to your site? What's in it for me? You have free ad posting, then there is no way you could guarantee that it would be spam free links and are worth visiting..

As an advertiser, why should I pay you when I get it for free? (to get a top place ??), If the users are not interested why would I be interested in spending advertising in your website..

just a thought..

You make very valid points. I don't think I will get thousands of users unless this goes viral. As an advertiser, you would pay to make sure ur ad posting remains at the top because it's ordered by amount.

This reminds me of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Yes, that is very true. This is kind of where I got my inspiration for this site. The difference is that I'm allowing people to post their ads for free and then seeing if people are willing to pay for being at the top of the list. We'll see if this actually works, like I said it's an experiment but will only works if enough companies register.

That was the inspiration that made me attempt this same idea 8 years ago, when I was at college. I called it depositorybox, and the idea was people would deposit a message and money to get it higher up the page.

It didn't work and I learned I had to earn money like regular people.

If I still had a flag button, I'd flag this.

Why flag? The title could be better but it isn't really spam.

The same site was submitted to HN two days ago by the same person:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638444

It was at a bad time. Its not like I sent out millions of emails.

I'm not trying to span people. Just showing HN my site and seeing if I get suggestions. If you don't like it, go read another article.

Can you tell us something about the idea and why you think it is different?

I'm basically trying to create another medium for small companies to get traffic for cheap. It's much like http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ but I'm allowing companies to post their ad for free. Right now it's fairly simple, it's only the company logo and a link to their website but I will eventually add additional information. I want to first see if this actually works and I get enough companies registering.

I'm still having a hard time understanding what I, as a company, would actually be getting from this. Is the 'ad' anything beyond the listing on your site? Companies are going to want to host banners that they can push elsewhere, not necessarily to send their customers to your site first.

A company would benefit by getting more traffic to their site if a user clicks on their link. Right now it's very minimal, it doesn't have anything I agree, but I plan on making it so you can upload some type of banner or something. I figured nobody would take the time to create a banner and upload it so that's why I just have their logo and URL, it's easy to enter that basic information for a company. If the site gets enough traffic, the companies at the top of the list would get the most visibility ofcourse.

I figured, sure why not, I'll post an ad for free. But when it asked for a required address and phone number, I decided not to.

Too early for that kid of trust.

It's not required :) I should remove them entirely. People might get intimidated by all the input fields.

App Not Setup: The developers of this app have not set up this app properly for Facebook Login.

That's weird, I can log in using my facebook. Anyone else have this issue?

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