On: Ask HN: My free app has gone slighty viral – looki...

[emilioolivares]

This kind of happened to me. I've tried building serious apps with limited success and traction. I'm a huge reddit/imgur fan so a built a hobby site for myself using reddit's api to browse through their images: http://www.flipmeme.com. Currently gets 100k uniques per month, can't monetize!!! In other words, the stuff you really work on doesn't get anywhere, random stuff you build as a joke suddenly takes off?!

[deciplex → emilioolivares]

Why can't you monetize? You could stick ads in there, at least.

[emilioolivares → deciplex]

It's against Imgur's terms of service. You can't show ad's and direct link to their images. Any other ideas :).

[deciplex → emilioolivares]

Ask for donations. If the donations don't at least cover the cost of running the site, shut it down (unless you're happy paying out of pocket).