I'm currently an NCSU student, and made a random website in a few hours and I think it could actually have potential. Basically you just enter in someone's address and we send them a letter via snail mail letting them know how much their lawn sucks anonymously.

http://www.yourlawnsucks.com

Ideally I'd want to get the price of each letter high enough that people find it novel and pass it along word of mouth, ergo, vis a vis, concordantly, and just make money through ads.

I realize the site itself is completely stupid so save the posts saying it's dumb, because I already know this haha.

Best!

Jm

12/16/2008 7:19:21 AM

buy an ad

12/16/2008 7:20:43 AM

lame as fuck

12/16/2008 7:24:03 AM

fail. hahaha

12/16/2008 7:40:55 AM

but hey, on a side note, the money from advertising pays the bills, so the more 'lame as fuck' sites you do, the less you have to work

12/16/2008 7:42:08 AM

Great! Another website for people with no balls.

(nothing against the OP, you are only seizing the opportunity to make money off of these cowards)

12/16/2008 7:43:54 AM

see and I agree with you on that, that's why I'm wondering if I should make signatures mandatory? or how I'd even be able to regulate that,

I have it setup so you can send a letter to one address only once, so people don't get spammed

12/16/2008 7:45:24 AM

so you actually fork over the stamp if they use the "free" letter?

12/16/2008 7:46:18 AM

yeah the burn rate is pretty minimal, I have direct advertisers lined up for about a year that agree to cover postage, envelopes, printing, etc.

but the shitty thing is that paypal takes .30 for each transaction, and then 2.5% on top of each transaction,

any advice on a good price for the initial letter? I honestly haven't thought through much of it and just winged it

12/16/2008 7:49:24 AM

12/16/2008 7:50:55 AM

perhaps make the first basic letter someone sends out free, and then charge like $1 or something (less than the $5 premium letter). limit it by email address maybe? people on here are smart enough to get around that by using multiple email addresses, but the average person probably isn't going to think to do that

anyways im off to work. i need to send one of these letters to the mexicans who landscape my building. they've been lacking lately.

12/16/2008 7:51:32 AM

I have it so it's actually only one per physical address,

I'm thinking pricing for the letters

letter 1 - 1.99
letter 2 - 2.99
letter 3 - 3.99

something standard, that way i don't get raped by paypal's transaction fees

12/16/2008 7:54:41 AM

this is stupid.

12/16/2008 7:59:27 AM

haha heck yeah it is!

12/16/2008 8:00:45 AM

I prefer the get drunk at the community cook out and talk shit about their lawn to their face method.

12/16/2008 8:04:24 AM

maybe we could get a mowing company to host a drunken cookout!

12/16/2008 8:08:17 AM

i haven't touched my yard in 3 months

waiting for all the leaves to finish falling and then i'm having a crew come in and take care of it all

12/16/2008 8:08:22 AM

lolz

12/16/2008 8:08:28 AM

I'd like to take a minute and thank our sponsors

12/16/2008 8:23:05 AM

you're aspiring to be HOA President aren't you

12/16/2008 8:28:59 AM

haha, screw that, I could honestly careless if someone has a shitty lawn, but there are enough extremist out there to make money off that you might as well

12/16/2008 8:31:57 AM

i'll give whoever wants equity in the ad-revenue if they are willing to ship the letters once a week

12/16/2008 9:50:46 AM

you're aspiring to be HOA President aren't you

12/16/2008 9:55:48 AM

buy an ad

12/16/2008 9:57:42 AM

i approve of this thread

12/16/2008 10:01:11 AM

I'm new to forums, is the 'buy an ad' thing a standard saying if the post appears to just be a plug?

I mean I'm a current NCSU student asking for thoughts on it, it's not like I'm a journalist from UNC writing on the wolf web, nor am I asking for any support, just opinions.

12/16/2008 10:28:22 AM

what if you don't know their email address.

or you could always just make up a fake email and send it to them yourself.

12/16/2008 10:32:44 AM

right,

to clarify, the target-email address can only be pinged once to prevent spam

12/16/2008 10:36:11 AM

Quote :

"I could honestly careless"

At least you care a little bit.

12/16/2008 10:41:01 AM

^^^^ yes

12/16/2008 10:42:08 AM

I sure didn't read this thread, but why would people pay your stupid ass to do this when this is something they can do on their own? Just sans the return address? HELLO DIPSHIT!

12/16/2008 10:55:55 AM

honestly, if anything.. it should be a physical letter sent to their mailbox.

12/16/2008 11:02:45 AM

MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS. IT'S NOT YOUR LAWN.

12/16/2008 11:06:56 AM

how about 'your life sucks' or 'your existence is a drain on humanity' ?

12/16/2008 11:17:22 AM

Or how about, your lack of concern for your own property is costing me literally tens of thousands dollars in property value. Or, how about, you are the reason that HOA exist (which I fucking hate).

12/16/2008 11:21:39 AM

^ he's going to spend lots of money at your website cause he's a DUMBASS

shot in the dark here, but is this Betsy in the middle bottom of this pic?



[Edited on December 16, 2008 at 11:25 AM. Reason : .]

12/16/2008 11:24:21 AM

you got that trademark awful fast...

12/16/2008 11:27:32 AM

"you got that trademark awful fast..."

-® Means it went through secretary of state

"honestly, if anything.. it should be a physical letter sent to their mailbox."

-it is a physical letter

"MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS. IT'S NOT YOUR LAWN."

-again I really could careless how your lawn is, however it's the fact that you live in a neighborhood: "neighborly conduct, friendliness," from neighbor + -hood (q.v.). Modern sense of "community of people who live close together" is first recorded 1625. So if you want to look like you live in a shanty, go buy some property in the middle of no where and no one would worry about it.

12/16/2008 1:36:58 PM

i think this is a pretty funny idea.

You should make a website that sends anonymous letters for "You're a bad roommate", I think IMStoned420 would be a big customer.

12/16/2008 1:41:30 PM

Quote :

"I sure didn't read this thread, but why would people pay your stupid ass to do this when this is something they can do on their own? Just sans the return address? HELLO DIPSHIT!"

- The same reason people take their clothes to the dry cleaners, or pay someone to cut their grass, the ease of use. You might be a socialist as well, which is why the whole making money thing isn't as clear to you. Plus the entire point of the site is to be novel enough (which it already has proven to be) to lock in direct advertisers, which pay for my car, rent, and food every month. So at the end of the day stupid idea or not, it took me 2 days to develop, and saved me the trouble of getting a job.

Quote :

"i think this is a pretty funny idea. You should make a website that sends anonymous letters for "You're a bad roommate", I think IMStoned420 would be a big customer."

- That would be a good idea if you would pose it as a site where friends are tired of hearing about how bad their friends roommates are "that way it doesn't appear to come from a direct roommate even though I'm sure they'd get the hint". If you could even make a simple roommate task list / quick forum that just pinged out an email if someone wanted the dishes washed, or made tasks for each other, I really think that'd work well.

[Edited on December 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM. Reason : correction]

12/16/2008 1:44:47 PM

whatever dude, you are one stupid mother fucker though. I'm sure you are just raking in the dough hand over fist with this brilliant idea. You are probably the next Bill Gates.

Why don't you also make a website to tell people to clean their houses, faggot.

12/16/2008 1:49:01 PM

such hatred





at least the OP hasnt gone all tww noob yet

12/16/2008 1:50:38 PM

hahahahahah ahhh hahah

12/16/2008 1:50:43 PM

TUFF

12/16/2008 1:52:05 PM

Quote :

"whatever dude, you are one stupid mother fucker though."

haha such hate. probably more envy than anything. i think it's pretty cool that you can make money off a website that's simple and based off of something stupid. gg man.

12/16/2008 1:54:15 PM

Quote :

"at least the OP hasnt gone all tww noob yet"

no, but he is trying to get people to visit his piece of shit idea for a website on a college message board. I'm willing to be that 95% of the people on this website don't even have a neighbor who has a lawn, thereby just validating how fucking retarded this clown is.

12/16/2008 1:55:16 PM

SO TUFF

12/16/2008 1:56:16 PM

easy tiger

12/16/2008 1:56:19 PM

I bet today will set the all-time high for traffic on that site.

12/16/2008 1:57:04 PM

so how many of you posters have sent this guy money so that he can send a note to your neighbor anonomously about how he needs to mow the grass? That's right, not one single fucking person.

12/16/2008 1:57:40 PM