I got a furry of hits (about 2,000) from Hacker News which is a good place to put your techy stuff. You get hits, but almost all of them use adblocker. They don’t bookmark, and they don’t follow links. Hacker News only works if your site is sticky to nerds and geeks.
I have yet to have any takers on the PayPal form, so I’ve decided to stop pushing the site with adwords. The adsense ads were pretty useless (just a few pennies).
I am bummed out. I thought that this was an outrageous idea that would have people flaming me for months, but it was a big ho-hum.
I will forget about it for now. I still expect that someone in the next few months, desperate for a friend, will pay the $1.99. I’ll get a PayPal notice in my in box and I’ll celebrate with a bottle of warm beer when I get home.