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I agree completely. That would be the optimal solution, it would just take a lot of effort on top of the focus of building the core project. I was hoping to avoid the complexity of building my own ad system and selling the ads directly, but I'm not sure if an ad network currently exists that fits my needs.

I could be completely wrong, but I believe there is a market for exactly what you describe in your mastodon post. At least I am in that very market.

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^ This has been exactly my experience too. I wanted an ad network that fit the above description, briefly thought about trying to build one, decided that definitely wasn't what I wanted to spend my time on, and held out a small hope that one day somebody would.

If you guys want to grab an IRC room for a bit, we could work out how this could be accomplished for at least a prototype.

I don't have IRC :)

What I will say is: I think the technical side is the easy part. Just serving static content. The hard part, which is also much less fun, is the business side of acquiring customers who want to advertise. Not only is there a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, it'd require marketing, negotiating, maybe inroads in certain circles, knowledge of the market, etc. That's the point at which I decided I didn't want to mess with it haha.

Sounds like we need cofounders. :)

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