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Comment by freehunter | Hacker News Reader

Pageviews are easy, especially on a social picture aggregator. It's not hard to imagine one person clicking on hundreds of images per day. The hard part is trying to monetize these pageviews.

It doesn't take a kick-ass team to put up a link farm and spam it out. It takes a kick-ass team to profit from it and not tank the reputation. Digg failed. Reddit is struggling. I'm not sure 9gag will do any better.

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9GAG is killing it! This is an extremely competitive and cluttered space on the web. They were able to carve out their own niche and build one of the largest websites in the world. This wasn't a 1 night trick or hack, it takes a lot of time and patience to build anything remotely close to what 9GAG has built.

You sound slightly brainwashed and cultish in your reply.

saying that something is easy is easy. fyi these guys are already profitable and killing it money-wise. also take look at their page structure - they are not even optimizing for pageviews- you can scroll and see tons on pics on one page. 9gag is killing it by all metrics, and have some great products to intro in upcoming months.

disclaimer: I obviously dont work for 9gag, but I know the founders, since they are from the same yc batch.

Huh, you sound exactly like adebelov... and you're cofounders of the same company...

so what? as i mentioned i know 9gag founders since they are from the same yc batch. they are extremely smart and talented guys, that already archived a lot and set very ambitious goals for their company future. i honestly wish them luck and excited to see them succeeding.

haters gona hate, who cares?

haters gona hate, really?

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