{"id":332,"date":"2010-08-02T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogseye.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2010-08-02T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:38:00","slug":"astoundme-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogseye\/2010\/08\/astoundme-com.html","title":{"rendered":"AstoundMe.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a furry of hits (about 2,000) from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/\">Hacker News<\/a> which is a good place to put your techy stuff. You get hits, but almost all of them use adblocker. They don&#8217;t bookmark, and they don&#8217;t follow links. Hacker News only works if your site is sticky to nerds and geeks.<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to have any takers on the PayPal form, so I&#8217;ve decided to stop pushing the site with adwords. The adsense ads were pretty useless (just a few pennies).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ll get a PayPal notice in my in box and I&#8217;ll celebrate with a bottle of warm beer when I get home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t bookmark, and they don&#8217;t follow links. Hacker News only works if your site is sticky to nerds and geeks. I have yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}