A Million Dollar Idea And Yuna’s $200 Bet
The idea is to make one million dollar with just one webpage by selling pixels for one dollar per pixel (think a pixel as a tiny dot on the screen). And a screen is big enough to hold 1 million pixels. People can buy pixels to advise their sites or whatever. Think I am joking? Hell no! This idea works! And the person who has invented this idea and set up the webpage has already sold $5600 worth of pixels.
This person is 21 year old Alex Tew from England who wanted to make some money to pay for his college cost. He launched a site called “The Million Dollar Homepage” just about 2 weeks ago. He divided the homepage screen into 10,000 10×10 pixel blocks and tries to sell each block (100 pixels) for $100 each. Check it out, he’s already got quite a few buyers and his blog shows his daily progress of his pixel sales.
But I wonder if he can really sell his 1 million pixels? Or just 200K? It’s anyone’s guess so I am going to take a guess and place a bet.
I think he will sell close to 12K by end of Sept, 2005 based on my calculated guess. When he got picked up by some big sites like The Register and Digg.com, he sold around 2000 – 2500 pixels per day. I once had my glory day with Digg.com just 2 weeks ago and I know the traffic and the interests will slow down. I have so far 7000+ unique visitors (probably far less than what Alex has received) from digg.com and 5000 came in the first 3 days. Unless Alex keeps promoting his site through more big boys, or the word of mouth (like what I am doing now) really works towards his advantage, he’d be sitting duck pretty soon. We live in a very cruel world and people forget and move on to new things very fast. So, taking all these factors into considerations, I’d strip a zero from his current sales and predict 250 a day on average in the next 20 days. That brings the total figure to close to 12K by end of Sept.
Ok, just to make this more interesting, I am going to place a bet. If by Sept 30 midnight EST, Alex has managed to sell more than $12K pixels, I will buy 2 blocks of his pixels (now that’s $200 REAL money from Yuna’s pocket) and put yunasville.com on his Million Dollar Homepage. It’s going to be the most expensive and tiniest link I will ever buy if I do lose the bet. We will see what happens in 20 days. Any guesses here?
Regardless whether Alex sells 12K or 1000K, the fact that he managed to pull in close to $6000 in two weeks with just one idea and one website is already a huge success. It’s funny that just before I stumbled onto his site, I was reading Seth Goding’s old post about how small guys with big ideas can succeed. I seriously think that no matter how little resources we have and how insignificant we seem to be, we can pull something big if we dare to think big, or quirky in Alex’s case.
Gosh I love this Internet!!!
Yuna said,
September 10, 2005 @ 12:21 am
If you have all the time on your hands, read the 90+ comments Alex got. It’s funny to see all kinds of reactions from different people. Someone even created the “One Million Penny Homepage” that looks exactly like Alex’s and proudly advertise his steal everywhere.
ME Strauss said,
September 10, 2005 @ 2:37 pm
Great Post, Yuna!
Really unusual information that will come in handy when making conversation about the internet to almost anyone. Well-written and fun.
thanks,
Liz
Yuna said,
September 12, 2005 @ 12:01 am
Alex posted an entry today :
”
“I heard about one guy who’s made a bet and is set to lose $200 if I reach more than $12,000 by the end of September. I’ve got a feeling he may lose his 200 bucks - things just seem to be gathering more and more pace. Sorry, dude
Well.. except .. I am a girl..
He sold another $2500.. I think I am losing the bet… Oh.. well.. $200 donation to help a kid with his college… not so bad..
spencer said,
September 17, 2005 @ 8:49 pm
well too bad that you already lost, it is only the 17 and he has sold 41,600 pixles so far
the interesting thing is that i got here from a 2-by-2 block that you bought there
Yuna said,
September 17, 2005 @ 10:58 pm
Welcome Spencer… Haha.. which means you don’t have to pass my “Can-you-find-my-tiny-box” test anymore, right?
Stephen said,
September 29, 2005 @ 6:04 am
Another shameless copycat
pixelget.com
Jason said,
October 6, 2005 @ 4:38 pm
Hey,
I noticed you advertised on the Million Dollar Homepage, I invite you to see the next million dollar homepage at: http://www.onebuckpixels.com.
The growth has been exponential… I would love to create a partnership with your site, pixels are going for 75% off for the next week. Also, keep in mind that as we are not oversaturated the newer advertisers will see a result of a higher click through rate on their ads.
If you have any questions or comments about how we can work together, please email me.
Note: Onebuckpixels.com is based on a first come first serve basis and your ad will be shown for a minimum of 5 years.
Thanks,
Jason
Yuna said,
October 6, 2005 @ 9:57 pm
Hmm.. I bought pixels from Alex’s site only because I lost bet days after his launch. I am not really into pixel business …,just had some fun to put a pixel yellow page together.. that’s all.. good luck!
James said,
October 11, 2005 @ 6:08 pm
Hey Yuna
You have a great site, and a wicked sense of humour, nice to see.
I spent some time looking for your tiny box, but it was nowhere to be found, I guess my luck was out tonight.
Why not post a screenshot of your tiny box, so we know where to find it
Nice to know you were prepared to put your money where your mouth is, and actually purchased aforementioned box, so many are so fast to criticise, and for what? because they are tough as nails whilst at the keyboard?
> favourites> add
take it easy
James.
www.AMillionQuid.com
Yuna said,
October 11, 2005 @ 10:21 pm
I was not thinking when i gave Alex my little graphics. It’s a purple/yellow ish who-knows-what icon between “Cheap CDs” and the big huge red/green ‘FREE” box.
Thanks for adding the page in your favorites list..;-)
I added your site to the list… Hope you make some handsome money!! Pixel on!
James said,
October 12, 2005 @ 3:35 am
“between Cheap CDs” and the big huge red/green ‘FREE” box.
hey that looks like a $400 purchase to me, not $200, couldn’t resist ,huh?
there’s something to be said about women and shopping !!
well i just popped back to prove you were in my faves, and wasn’t just dropping spam
. Back to lurking for a while, have a good day.
James
www.AMillionQuid.com
Yuna said,
October 12, 2005 @ 7:40 am
bummer.. got caught…
Mon Premier Million said,
October 21, 2005 @ 9:10 pm
Hahaha, I was thinking exactly this, as I was reading, when Spencer said he saw a 2×2 blocs I thought he made a mistake. But you really bought 200$ more ! Haha that’s funny just because of all the things being said about girls and shopping
But in fact myself I bought a 3×2 blocs ! And I’m a boy.. And I didn’t bet anything since I’ve learned about it one month after you, so it was already obvious it worked fine..
I really like the colours on your site by the way, it’s funny but white, green and orange and black for the text really works for something fresh looking, but not ice-fresh looking.
Cheers,
Pascal
Kay Stephens said,
November 25, 2005 @ 4:52 pm
hey theres an even better site than Alex’s, although its a bit of a rip off, but the guy says once ge has sold all the million pixels at a dollar each, he will go to Vegas and stick it all on one spin of a roulette wheel on either red or black, and the good new for advertisers is.. if it wins they get their advertising fee back..and he or maybe its a she,, will become a millionaire as well, but if they lose then everything will be lost, apart from the ads which will last 10 years !!!
http://www.freemillionpixelhomepage.com
philip van den bossche said,
December 13, 2005 @ 12:12 pm
Hi, I am sick of people saying “hi, theres even a better site than Alex´s”. Are you stupid? This is like saying “Hi, theres even a better Mona Lisa than Da Vinci´s”. I know you want to promote your site, but be decent enough to honor the inventor of the pixelsites.
Writing this, the MillionDollarHomepage is selling its last 1500 blocks. I hope Alex makes his million around newyearsday.
Philip
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