You might not see value in it, but I wouldn't be too surprised if some big blog network snaps up hackaday soon.
With a little bit care you can make some serious money with that much traffic, even if most of the traffic is tech savvy and some of them might use adblock and generally immune to traditional ads.
Everything else is staying the same...
Would love to get a few authors /submitters on board and keep the site free. There are better ways to spend that $500k.
Nary a buck was given.
As for the rest of the thoughts and concerns, well, not my problem!
More accurately, you're buying it for them.
(Though, granted, it does include ads for Adafruit products, which isn't an issue for me since that's some great targeted marketing).
I have nothing against Hackaday, I've followed the site for years, but I'd rather spend money on cool products at Adafruit than toss it into a vague blackhole for purposes I don't quite understand with no guarantee the site will even remain up or relevant to me.
Hackaday has adsense, so if you're not blocking it, you get the usual banners.
Either the site should be sold as an investment so someone gets a real financial interest, or someone should just make "newhackaday.com" as a non-profit and move everyone over there.
"Need designer to work gratis on wearable computer mockups for editorial. grt exposure/u own content. ping jason AT inside.com"
Yeah, now I'm even happier that I decided to keep my money.
http://hackaday.com/2013/07/15/were-going-to-buy-hackaday/#m...
Reading through that particular link its clear that the challenge here is a business model that pays the writers and editors enough money. Raising 500K isn't going to get them a business model. Which explains the second question I had when I read the headline, which was "Why aren't they getting investment from a venture fund?" I'm guessing they are still working on a model going forward which would make an outside investor nervous.
The other thing I wonder is how their traffic has been changed by Google Reader going away, if at all. That's because I'm generally curious on that question. It seemed to me that it was a big traffic generator but I didn't have any proof one way or the other on that.
This is all so preposterous, I don't know how Kickstarter is even allowing this to happen on their site. Calacanis is one hell of a scammer.
With that traffic, this is not a bad deal at all.
Is ^this really true? I don't think so.
