Topic: Something better than Operation Fabulous? - page 5. (Read 10298 times)

Will it support images?

You have many adf.ly links in your sign.
Are you able to make an adf.ly clone but with Bitcoin?

This is my new service: http://bitcoinsense.com/ will be officially announced in a couple days when a few minor improvements get added.

BioMike I sent you a PM regards Operation Fabulous.

Yes, yes, yes please!

Cool! It's always nice to see my work live.

Ok, it is somewhat integrated now, including the pie chart code that Kiba wrote (do note that it can take up to 30 seconds to load the data from the database if there is nothing in the cache). Click on the title of the site to go to the site specific part, from there you can get a lot more information about the site and place/edit/delete bids.

Hi. I am worked on something for operation fabulous. Hope to see my change on the operationfabulous site soon. 

edd has been in contact with me on that, to see what can be arranged. If you would like to join, contact him.

It's part of a new set of pages that allows a new way of bidding on a site and allows the pubishers to direct potential advertisers to more info about advertising on their site. I haven't had the time to integrate it in the site yet, but I'll try to do it this week (no guarantees).


I told edd already to maybe contact that person, maybe he wants to join in.

that would be great if it worked.


never saw this list before. it's much better than the other lists. you should present it more prominently

somewhat relevant? https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bounty-100-btc-require-php-codeigniter-web-developer-75177

I'm also open for a community sell. Respected people grouping together and run it together (more as a business, then you would have different roles, e.g. server admins, site designers, support desk, people handling "the finances"), maybe issue shares on GLBSE to fund it (I would even buy a few of those). Such group would have my preference.

Some of the server aspects:
PHP (OO programmed with a clear separation of user facing scripts and backend classes to increase security)
Firebird as backend database (not a common choice, but had my reasons for that)
PHP and Python running in the backend as daemon for various tasks
Bitcoind running on the server for pay out with a minimum of the funds.

The services are running on a VPS from kalyhost (not everybody might like them, but I never had any problems with them).
The OS is Gentoo Linux, using a hardened AMD64 profile, software is up to date.
I'm using IPtables to shield off services that should not be exposed to everybody.

As you see security was always a main point for me (Operation Fabulous got started at the time when people were hacking into various bitcoin related sites), the community was already facing with sites disappearing and people losing money (and the trust in those sites).

The money turn over fluctuates a bit over time. Because I keep most money off-server I normally can do with about 20 BTC on the server for a few days, but I've had times when this would be gone in just 2 days. Counting up the first few rates from https://operationfabulous.com/advertiser/index.php?e=list current pay out would be around 4 BTC/day.

I could make some simple cheap graphics if who ever ends up with the site remodels it...

My point was more in the way of giving you a hint to sell it.
Altho I could buy it, manage it and improve it, even if I had to hire someone to do that, because I'm not a programmer, and I don't even imagine what powers OF in the backend(RoR, PHP?), you can probably find someone more skilled to sell it to.

You can always PM me a proposal. I'll promise I'll read it carefully and see what needs to be improved on the site and who I'll need to hire to achieve those results and give you an honest answer.

Hi BioMike,

What's the technology behind the site (e.g. Apache/PHP/MySQL)? And what's the approximate turnover in BTC per day?

Glad to hear from you! I understand how other obligations can prevent you from further engrossing yourself in this endeavor. But I hope for the sake of publishers, advertisers, and Bitcoin users everywhere that you do find somebody to sell OF to. If I could code I'd buy it from you. But there has got to be enough coders and entrepreneurs in the Bitcoin community to make OF what it can and very well should be, the GOOGLE ADSENSE OF BITCOIN.

Best of luck! And keep us posted please! 

I started Operation Fabulous more than a year ago because there were no advertising possibilities and people were asking for it. It was a solution for the community at that time (I had no serious plans to make a profit out of it). While I'm still busy developing it from time to time (and maintaining it, of course), I don't have so much spare time due to my work.

I've had offers of people in the past to purchase it from me, but rejected them. Seeing this type of discussion coming back from time to time and knowing that I do not have the time to bring the site up to the level it should be for the current market (and still lacking good alternatives) I think it is time to reconsider to hand over the site to some more dedicated person.

I do however need confidence that the person who I will be selling the site to is respected within the bitcoin community, the last thing I want is to have the site and all the work I put into it to fall in the hands of some scammer that wants to get a quick buck out of it. I want some confidence that the site will be in good hands.

Psy, was your point about buying Operation Fabulous serious? I see you have quite some posts already, so I guess you've gained some respect in the community.

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AA does not usually pay for impressions, because impressions can be faked easily.

Yes, there is a problem with monetization, and I am permanently working to solve it.

Affiliates that add their highly ranked sites earn more in latest days (you can access their stats if you navigate from http://anonymousads.com/sites page).

Advertisers can see the list of sites that showed their ads (and they can create a weighted "paylist" at btcrelay to pay all those sites at once thus getting much more new impressions from them for less money). For example, here is the list of sites that showed ad #1.

uh... SexyBitcoinAds ?