diegoloop

Hi HN, I created a download video website (keepandplay.com) some time ago, it is a rather simple site but with a tremendous support to multiple sites (youtube, twitter, Facebook, instagram....)

Since I created the site I didn't get any profits... no ads or similar.

Does anyone know whether it is worthwhile to put ads to earn some money? KeepAndPlay.com is ranked #2,209,472 on Alexa and produces 1,235 session per month (Google Analytics)

Suggestions on how to improve are welcome

Thanks!

So I just turned 30 years old and I have 60k € on my bank account (basically those are my savings from the last 5 years), but I think it’s really stupid not to invest my money in something. So I’m hardly thinking to buy an apartment near to the company I work at (Erlangen, Germany); Actually I found a good but also really expensive (~3200€ per m2) one, which I have to decide if I want to take it at the end of next week.

So my question is, what would you do if you have the money, would you prefer to invest in something else? Take in mind that I don’t have nothing else just a “secure” job earning ~36000 € netto per year, I also don’t pay to much for rent, and the chance to build a family in the next 7 years it’s very likely.

Would you buy the apartment?

Is there anyone with any benchmarks on speed?

I was wondering whether it’s possible to successfully create a weekend project and if so, with which quality. Here at HN I’ve read many stories of random people (to me they are like teachers) creating “Show HN” projects in 48 hrs which are amazingly awesome and also hit the top site of HN. So here I’m presenting mine: http://keepandplay.com. This is actually not a weekend project, I tried for it to be, but I failed. It actually took me 5 days to have it as it is right now. So I’m still profoundly skeptic on how to realize a 48 hrs side project with the look and feel and quality I would be satisfied with.

Here is how I spent most of the time. I worked between 8 and 14 hrs a day (I’m on vacation) - Searching and choosing a keepandplay.com domain - 2 hrs.

- Keepandplay backend - 1 day

- Logo design 6 hrs. I created 18 different prototypes

- Frontend design - 3 days. Even though this site looks really simple, designing it was really hard for me. Sometimes I found myself spending more time on design than on code. I basically took screenshots from similar sites (youtube, courser, onreplaytv, soundcloud, vimeo, vine, itunes, vevo) put them on an Omnigraffle page and compared all of them. Keepandplay is a combination of Soundcloud, Vine and OnreplayTV.

- Dealing with not required but necessary settings - 6 hrs

+ It’s hard to believe, but developing a “simple” (48 hrs) website has a lot of stuff going on:

	    - Responsive design from 320x480 to 1920x1080, not forgetting portrait and landscape

	    - Favicons - which sometimes requires different logo design since the image is not big

	    - Setting some analytics tracker. i.e. register, generate code…

	    - Register site on Google SEO site

I’m glad I’m finished now and I hope you guys like the outcome. If you do like it, do find it awesomely handy, then share it with all your friends and after that come back here and give some feedback. Thanks!

I've been working on a new product for the last 6 months. During some of my latest research I found out that there is a company doing the exact same thing I wanted to do... This is disappointing but it's also silly to think that I am the only one with this idea. The question is if i should throw everything away, have a beer and move on...or continue. This is a hard decision, how would you handle it?

I was wondering whether it’s possible to successfully create a weekend project and if so, with which quality. Here at HN I’ve read many stories of random people (to me they are like teachers) creating “Show HN” projects in 48 hrs which are amazingly awesome and also hit the top site of HN.

So here I’m presenting mine: http://keepandplay.com. This is actually not a weekend project, I tried for it to be, but I failed. It actually took me 5 days to have it as it is right now. So I’m still profoundly skeptic on how to realize a 48 hrs side project with the look and feel and quality I would be satisfied with.

Here is how I spent most of the time. I worked between 8 and 14 hrs a day (I’m on vacation) - Searching and choosing a keepandplay.com domain - 2 hrs.

- Keepandplay backend - 1 day

- Logo design 6 hrs. I created 18 different prototypes

- Frontend design - 3 days. Even though this site looks really simple, designing it was really hard for me. Sometimes I found myself spending more time on design than on code. I basically took screenshots from similar sites (youtube, courser, onreplaytv, soundcloud, vimeo, vine, itunes, vevo) put them on an Omnigraffle page and compared all of them. Keepandplay is a combination of Soundcloud, Vine and OnreplayTV.

- Dealing with not required but necessary settings - 6 hrs

+ It’s hard to believe, but developing a “simple” (48 hrs) website has a lot of stuff going on:

	    - Responsive design from 320x480 to 1920x1080, not forgetting portrait and landscape

	    - Favicons - which sometimes requires different logo design since the image is not big

	    - Setting some analytics tracker. i.e. register, generate code…

	    - Register site on Google SEO site

Now it’s already really late over here… I’m glad I’m finished now and I hope you guys like the outcome. If you do like it, do find it awesomely handy, then share it with all your friends and after that come back here and give some feedback. Thanks!