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Comment by BorisMelnik

10 years ago

Was really surprised to see such a great solution and walkthrough. I had no idea Mac's had "unicode text input" software on default machines. I wonder why Window's hasn't upgraded charmap.exe over the years?

Ok and hear me out on this: a startup idea based on emoji passwords that encodes/decodes emojis into their hex/binary equivalent. takers?

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biot  10 years ago 

  > a startup idea based on emoji passwords that encodes/decodes
  > emojis into their hex/binary equivalent.

Is "startup" now synonymous with "thing that I built in 2 hours and have no ability to monetize"?

  • j42  10 years ago

    Well, "startup" is a poor choice of words, but he actually has a half-decent idea.

    As someone who owns dozens of little "tool" sites (think less/scss converters, meme generators, JS beautifiers, etc), I can tell you each is probably 1-2 pages, took an hour to build and thankfully due to some domain squatting (kw in domain) and a low bounce rate I don't have to worry much about SEO.

    As for the Adsense revenue, I think you'd be quite surprised.

    One is an afternoon, not a startup idea.

    50, on the other hand, could be passive income for a very long time.

    Just something to consider before jumping to negativity. ;)

    • kgtm  10 years ago

      Interesting. I would love to hear more details, like how much traffic you are bringing in total from these mini-apps and how much income from Adsense.

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