Let's advertise each others sites
Free advertising! When you hear free, you know there's a catch.
TL;DR
A community-led ad network, starting with IndieHackers. Let's share relevant traffic. Sign up to this newsletter then come back here and tell me what you think!
Alternatively, tell me why it's dumb and I'll go and sell the domain name
The long version
So recently I've been making a few projects here and there, and I started looking into ads to promote them.
I started looking for an ad network that doesn't track users, like Simple Analytics, but for ads. The theory is that on each page, the content of the page itself is enough to determine what to show users, without knowing every detail of their lives and tracking them around the web.
The best I've found looks like CarbonAds but (correct me if I'm wrong) it doesn't seem accessible for many IndieHackers starting out. Big budgets and a lot of gatekeeping to focus on "high quality" publishers.
I want to keep the "high quality" part but have something we can all join, even with hardly any visitors, or a tiny budget.
Yeah, I'm not about to take on Google/Facebook
I'm aware that replacing Google Ads is not a realistic goal, so here's the "starting small" version:
Let's advertise on each others sites. If you have a site with low traffic, get some initial users. If you have more traffic, then you get to help out smaller IndieHackers and get a few new users at the same time.
We'll have rules and standards so it's not spammy, and for now this is purely an experiment. No money's involved, and if it tanks, we stop it.
Full disclosure, I have ideas but I haven't built anything apart from this landing page - I want YOUR feedback first.
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I imagine it's really hard to get people to sign up for this sort of thing when new. Perhaps as a community / sharing idea it'll avoid the inevitability bad ROI a platform like this would have in the beginning.
I'm going to build it some more as a way of learning the frontend side of things since I'm really a backend dev.
Nothing lost if I fail then :)
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Thanks for the feedback, it's really helpful.
I think I was aiming for it to be more like an article than a traditional landing page, but I do get that it could be off-putting.
I am going to try and make it two pages, so the rationale is still there to read but it doesn't get in the way, and you can skip it.
Thanks again!
Thought I'd let you know that I updated the design a little.
https://adswithethics.com/
For sure not finished, but you're right, it was way too long.
Out of interest, have you seen hey.com ? Similarly long, but maybe they've done it better, or have the audience already that people will read what they have to say.