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Show HN: I built a message board where you pay to be the homepage (https://saythat.sh)

18 points by SayThatSh 4 days ago | 14 comments | View on ycombinator

ilinx 4 days ago |

It’s a cool concept, but I can’t imagine what would make me want to frequent a message board that was explicitly designed to give wealthy users more of a voice. The wealthy have enough ability to project their influence as it is. The idea is considerably too capitalistic for my taste.

SayThatSh 4 days ago |

Just wanted to add a small update: I've completed my research on charity donation integration and settled on donating to the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)! Mocking up the frontend changes with a dedicated page that will contain quarterly reports on donations, FAQ update, etc. After some further research, settled on personally donating 25% of Say That Sh*'s revenue to the EFF every quarter <3 The standard seems to be something like 5% and that just seemed way too low?

ktoo_ 3 days ago |

How do you deal with two people bidding to replace the same message?

I'm most curious about your development process. This has a very strong feel of being vibe coded, which I have nothing against. And your replies here also sound heavily LLM influenced. I als have no issues with that. I am more interested to know if my instinct about these things is accurate. Has developed in this way, over engineered as you say, essentially because the cost to do so is practically nothing with the advent of LLM coding?

Also, has anything ever broken at 3am?

dylanhouli 3 days ago |

Interesting idea. Since it costs (at the moment) less than a dollar to post a message, does that still work well with Stripe?

I'm always a bit worried about making super low priced services myself with Stripe, mainly cause I've heard that's a common target for credit card testing fraud, but interested to hear your thoughts.

nickvec 4 days ago |

Reminds me of https://milliondollarhomepage.com/ (which is where I assume you got the inspiration from!)

moezd 3 days ago |

Oh this has the same spirit as that Washington Redskins episode on South Park. I'm lovin' it.