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Million Dollar Homepage

This is unbelievable.

MillionDollarHomepage is a website started by a kid in the UK to make some money for college (or "Uni" as they say over there).  His idea: sell 1,000,000 pixels for US$1 each, in blocks of 100 (10x10 pixels).  Each buyer would send him a small image file, and he would put it on the front page of milliondollarhomepage.com, as a link back to the buyer’s website.

He started this two months ago, at the end of August 2005, and has made over half a million dollars in those two months.

I need to come up with a way to make my business do so well!

Posted by Anthony on Nov 1, 2005 | 4 replies
Filed under: Business, Internet, Neato

Comments:

01. Nov 1, 2005 at 08:35pm by Mom:

Don’t you just hate these ’why didn’t I think of that?’ ideas?  Dang.............
And this was an awesome idea!

02. Nov 2, 2005 at 09:42am by Kev:

Anthony’s Mom took the words out of my mouth. Or the thoughts out of my head? Or the keystrokes out of my fingertips? Hmmmm. OK, I had the same thought before reading the comments section. :)

03. Nov 2, 2005 at 09:50am by Mike:

I thought of the idea of those finger covers to brush your teeth on the go literally a month before I started seeing commercials for them.  It probably doesn’t matter because it’s not like I would ever try to make money off of an idea like that but it still bothered me.  Anyway, you gotta love when stupid ideas like this pay off.  Anyone for a game of pogs?

04. Nov 2, 2005 at 04:55pm by Anthony:

Pogs... I haven’t seen or thought of that word or the game in years.

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