It's more an experiment than a serious business venture. The idea is simple. We place a little ad on each others page with a link back to ones side project.
It privacy respecting (no user tracking) and will work in the beginning by me judging which project to include into the ad network.
I hope to create a positive sum game and give cool projects a new platform.
(The ad will start showing on March 15th)
A solution to this problem that doesn't take your time is to ask projects to put down a deposit. Bad/spam projects don't get the deposit back. https://repowcha.com solves this.
Only ads with the script tag will be included to the ad network.
"No specific version numbers or IP addresses are saves."
Should be "saved".
It reminds me of the old internet :-)
Some copyediting help:
FAQ:
Is Tiny Ads GDPR conform? -> "conformant" (or more naturally, "Does Tiny Ads conform to GDPR?"
No specific version numbers or IP addresses are saves. -> "saved"
How does the blacklisting works? -> "work"
It could distract our user when they want to decide to try us out -> This is a statement not a question ;)
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/business/media/13note.htm...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/04...
That will be a very easy target for faking impressions...
My original goal was avoiding ad blockers: By having the publisher render the ad themselves, it doesn't look obviously an ad, and as long as the publisher doesn't make the page itself an ad farm, users do not tend to block with custom CSS (that might end up in popular blocking tools). It seems to work okay- we've been operational for over five years at this point, and I've not seen one of the publisher domains or CSS show up in ublock.
But for it to really work you would need to store a cookie to correctly redirect the user.
I like your idea of rendering the ads on the server side, but I would hope they would have super low responsive times. Or at least low timeout on your side.
That ofc means the common practice of advertisers pasting a JavaScript snippet, the network doing a review process, then rendering that snippet as an advertisement on some property would not be allowed on this Ad Network.
What do u think of images rendered on the backend?
I went there and moved my eyes around the example ad and immediately got vertigo and my stomach turned.
Possibly it's from the dots...?
So I created a second ad that did have the competitor list, it failed again, this time I re-added the competitor list and it seemed to go through.
This all because there was no edit button. But the icing on the cake is that the DELETE button doesn't work, either, so now I just have two ads up there.
I guess we'll see how this goes...?
Off topic I am watching your code generation video on nodewood https://nodewood.com/features/code-generation/ . It's seems clever, but I have some difficulty evaluating how much trouble it would save me for example. How do pitch that feature ?
Basically, we show ads for OSS projects & conferences in the ad spot on a small percentage of our traffic. It's a nice way to give back, and in the past we've shown ads for many Pycon's around the world, the PSF's annual fundraiser, and a bunch more worthwhile community projects.
The hardest thing has actually been finding projects that are well targeted for our community, and getting design assets for them. A lot of OSS & side projects don't have this stuff, and the ones who do probably don't need much promotion.
After experimenting with datalog and mongo I settled with postgres. It's flexible enough for most situations.
One thing: I really hope you don’t plan on making these things wiggle or anything. That’s exactly the sort of obnoxiousness that prompts me to block ads, and I think that would defeat your stated goal of unobtrusiveness here.
Edit: typo
I just uploaded my own side project (http://spot.gifts) but the image I uploaded is showing as broken (was initially .svg). I tried to upload a .png and delete my previous post but that didn't work. Just thought I'd give you feedback. Keep going!
What do I have to do to place the banner?
Would be nice a place inside the site to send you some feedback or questions.
With several things that can be improved.
