Its been a pretty big year and just wanted to give you an overview. Im posting it on subredditdrama because this is the birth place of redditbots and still the largest source of visitors.
Stats
- Over 2 million unique visitors (somewhere between 2 and 2.5 but its hard to know exactly)
- On the 7th of october 250,000 people vistited redditlog.com
- Top 10 countries but you came from over 222 places
- 46% windows and more android than mac
- Google has crawled over 400,000 snapshots
The most popular snapshots were:
Open Relationships - 211,000 visitors
Worst Thing Said During Sex - 140,000 visitors
BreakUp - 60,000 visitors
Technology
Laravel(PHP), MYSQL, Redis
Website hosted on PagodaBox and bot at DigitalOcean
Downtime
Way to much. A combination of pagodabox having serious issues for a while and a bug in the way php was dealing with static files lead to a couple of weeks of downtime. Very sorry about that :(
Got banned from adsense
There was a link to a porn site in one of the snapshots so I got banned from adsense (the ad platform) which means this project is now losing money. Its a shame because I had been planning to invest a certain amount of time in cool features.
Plans
I would really like to implement live thread updating so that new comments get added to snapshots as they happen (without deleting or editing existing comments) so that the snapshot is complete and not stuck in the past.
Better rendering of snapshots. Its kinda bland atm and doesnt look good on mobile.
Add a stats page so you can admire all this stuff in real time.
Implementing any of this would require the site to generate revenue again because along with university and work im kinda running short on time. I would love to work on this for a couple of hours per week. Any suggestions for revenue generation?
The End
If you have any suggestions, complaints or praise feel free to let me know.
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