Ineffective ad management leading to poor user experience and lost revenue opportunities

Signals over time

2 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 7 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “In a world of abundance, things come easy and things come hard. With abundant food, man gets fat. With abundant money, man gets greedy, and with abundant agents, ads become useless. One day with Claude at my fingertips, I built a pretty cool product called memoe.app. I myself found it useful, so I thought others would too. I tried to market it. I decided to spend $100 on X ads. At the end of the day, three people have clicked my link. That's an average of $33 per click for some random person to click my link, who is most likely just a bot. In the age of AI, we must rethink how marketing works. Products must reach humans. Humans engage. Companies stop paying for bots and start paying for humans, as we did all these years. Ad fraud is rising rapidly. There must be a solution, and I am bringing one forth to the world.”

  Hacker News · frustration

• “Also get ye some trademarks. Make sure your logo and branding colors are trademarked in combination with the name Photopea. Use the logo and branding colors more places. It won't stop AI thieves cold, but now they'll be in violation of two kinds of law unless they do a bunch more work to rip out all the trademarked branding. Finally, move beyond ads as your business model. An ad blocker removes the ads from your website, and still leaves you paying to host the traffic . In a way it's worse for you than what unauthorized mirrors are doing. You're seeing that there's unmet demand for what you are offering, so my advice is: figure out how to capture that demand. Why aren't those people taking the deals you're offering them? I took the liberty of disabling my own ad blocker to do a little research and HOLY COW THESE ARE BAD ADS. Let's lay out the problems: - Something is horribly mangled in the ad loading code. The ads flash in and out of existence, and cycle through at breakneck speed, ~5 seconds per ad. Between the flashing in and out and the flashing different ads, it is not possible to do serious work with this going on. - Many of the people ”

  Hacker News · frustration