endlessvoid94

Not at all. The name was a friend's idea, but obviously having a place on the internet for stoners to submit and laugh at stuff is nothing original.

there's no secret. just made lots of fake user accounts, posted lots of stories, made all the vote numbers crazy, generally made it look as if there were a ton of users already using the site.

it made people assume that was true, so it didn't look barren and empty.

How to build a social entertainment website:

1. Build site
2. fake lots of user activity
3. steal a tiny bit of content from all around the internet
4. reddit ads ($20)
5. stumbleupon ads ($5)
6. put easily shareable links on each story side note: I put facebook "like" buttons on each story when they unveiled their opengraph stuff and facebook referrers skyrocketed, so that was awesome.

For advertisers, I literally email them out of the blue. I had a seed seller in the UK for awhile that didn't pan out, so he quit. I've had lots of humor sites advertise, some hydroponics stuff, and while prop 19 was under the media's eye, adsense was giving me TONS of high CPC ads. I made $3k during that time period in one month. It was nice.

I use Google Doubleclick for Publishers to manage ads, I use freshbooks (the free plan) to charge advertisers with my paypal and google checkout accounts. One time someone wired me money from the UK.

• Advertising. Stickers are in the store, but they hardly generate anything at all. Most of the time I just use adsense, but sometimes I convince companies and other websites to pay for advertising space.
• It was a complete joke at first. I bought the domain name and then built the site with my girlfriend at the time and another good friend. We built it in one night and then I've been continuously working on it (this was back in February). It hit the frontpage of college humor, I went all over my college campus (at the time) and chalked the quad, put up flyers, etc. Since then it's been growing steadily.
• Occasionally
• I have no idea what the future of marijuana :-P I'm barely a casual user, but I completely understand how ludicrous the current situation is.
• I don't get "fed up" with them, but as more of them float to the top of the site, it gets spammy and diminishes the overall quality. So yes, it's a little annoying.

trust me, it's not enough to buy a new car. maybe enough to buy a sandwich...