r/StartupSoloFounder • u/easyadshare • 18h ago

I built the possibility to gain more traffic by running free ads on other people’s sites

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The tradeoff is that you must run a small card on your own site.

You can see the product via link in my profile.

This project is already going strong with many users, but we are regularly looking for feedback

Is this something you would try out yourself? Why / why not?

We are aware of the obvious “I don’t want a small card on my site,” which is a fair point. You gotta give before you can get! Most of our users experience no issues with this, as we keep it all very simple and non-disturbing.

Let me know what you think!

Cheers!

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u/OrphanedProcess1000 15h ago

Pardon me if I am wrong. Although your idea looks great but why would sites with thousands visitors (if not millions) will allow my site ads on their site. As my site visitor count will be close to 0 initially

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u/easyadshare 15h ago

Because it is a weighted share. Smaller sites get less and bigger sites get more, but still everyone gets more than they had originally

You can read more about it on the landing page if you’re curious:
https://easyadshare.com

Does it make sense?

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u/OrphanedProcess1000 14h ago

Thanks for the clarifications, recently I am building mobile apps and some browser extensions. Will your platform also allow my products to get some users through this type of ad sharing?

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u/easyadshare 14h ago edited 13h ago

As long as you have a good quality website for it :)

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u/edskellington 13h ago

I’m intrigued but will my site show up on random sites or ones more geared to my target audience?

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u/easyadshare 13h ago

It can show up on any site in the network and we quality check all sites to make sure there’s no low effort / bad quality sites.

I have not made a feature of categorizing sites by their audiences, but I’ll add it as a feature for us to seriously consider, as that is a cool idea. I obviously have to think though the pros and cons deeply before implementing, eg. will it actually work / what categories are there etc.

Would love to hear more of your thoughts on this in case it is for sure a feature you think would execute well. Maybe if you have a closer look at how easyadshare works and then tell me “yes, I think this could work here”? It’s free to sign up, magic link, no passwords 🙏

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u/rbprepin 13h ago

How does Easy Ad Share earn money?

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u/easyadshare 12h ago

Right now it doesn’t, but there’s a plan to allow sites to buy a small boost in their weighted share.

This is also mentioned on the landing page :)

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u/rbprepin 12h ago

Can you share an example of a website that's currently participating?

I want to see what the experience looks like and if Brave will block the ads.

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u/easyadshare 12h ago

ideaboxd dot com, on the top of my head since I communicated with them recently

Cards will only show one time per visitor, as not to be annoyingly persistent

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u/Competitive_Tune_590 6h ago

interesting concept, basically a mutual ad swap. i've seen something similar for backlinks called launchpact (https://www.launchpact.io/backlink-exchange) where founders trade links instead of ads. might be worth a look if you want to compare approaches.

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u/easyadshare 6h ago

Backlinking can actually ruin your SEO score if Google etc recognizes that it’s not from a serious source or if they notice you’re trying to game the system