Remember this? This glaring monstrosity is The Million Dollar Homepage, the viral sensation that swept the web in 2005. I hate this website. Everyone hates this website. We all hate it because we didn’t think of it first. It’s the perfect egg of Columbus.
What has Alex Tew, the genius who made a million dollars on the neon pile of shit above, done since? Nothing successful. He’s made several attempts that failed to generate significant income. His latest project was One Million People, which is exactly like the Million Dollar Homepage, but with people’s faces instead of ads. It never took off, and now appears to have morphed into a charity, which is nice, but hardly testifies to Tew’s business acumen.
I haven’t thought about this site for years, until I randomly stumbled on it today. I’m sure there’s a lesson here about the internet, business, or whatever the fuck that TechCrunch or someone could SEOify and divide into ten pages and make money off. (I’m glad I didn’t think of that idea.) Whatever it is, it would be something something luck something something.
Jan 20, 2012