OP: If you want to make some money with this, send me an email.
I get about 3 requests a week from get-rich-quick-minded people who want their own crypto.
Not serious players, not credible businesspeople, just average Joes who want to get in while the getting's good.
They would probably pay $500 or more.
We could make this work.
If you look at ycombinator's about or principles page, it's filled with words like helping, teaching, advise, benevolence. I for one, disagree wholeheartedly with the spirit of that quote, and find it disappointing to see it here.
I'll finish with a couple quotes found on other pages on this site that I hope still reflect the the purpose of this community/incubator:
"The most successful founders are motivated less by money than by a consuming interest in what they’re building."
"...empirically the benefits of benevolence are greater than the costs"
That quote above is a bit pessimistic, I agree with you there, but maybe you're replying to an individual quote that doesn't reflect the values of anyone else here at all? Is it really necessary or justified to project this negativity on the greater community based on one comment and a few up-votes? Are you certain you know why the up-votes were given?
The empirical benefits quote you shared is talking directly about YC and it's employees, not founders, and it's ultimately (and intentionally) a bit paradoxical. When YC is talking about the benefits of benevolence, they're implicitly talking about the long term private financial return of their own investments.
Their attitude here seems like healthy and forward business thinking to me, but maybe we should be careful about equating for-profit business benevolence with selfless humanitarian benevolence. Strong arguments have been made in both directions whether human good is served by business returns. I just wanted to emphasize that starting a company is almost always inherently partially selfish, and that it's hard to name many billionaires who's primary adjective is benevolent. Many are benevolent to varying degrees, but most are first and foremost good at profit-seeking.
HN is about denominators. We all want to get rich. Some of us are willing to work, some of us are willing to hustle, etc.
The ideals of YC don't correspond to Internet commenters. Hell, half of the comments here probably don't even correspond to the true intent of the author's opinion.
Disclaimer: I'm just some moron on the Internet. No need to wax philosophical over Internet comments.
This is a prime example of the holier-than-thou sentiment that's part and parcel of the crypto community.
This is a fantastic art project that showcases exactly what value cryptocurrency brings to the fore. That you're acting this way towards someone looking to make a side-hustle work on a website about side-hustles is incredible self-delusion.
Those wanting to be "exploiting them for fun and profit" will probably be launching multi million dollar ICOs, not joking about crapcoin generators.
They are and have been stealing the future from the public and giving it to the 1%(accredited investors).
But perhaps there could be a paid version with more features, like a small website for your cryptocurrency with a logo etc.
While you're adding features, can you offer "customer support?" I don't need to actually answer the thing. I just need for it to loop in some elevator music with an occasional robot voice which says "please hold" at random intervals.
ETA: I think the site is fine. People will still be interested in using this even if it's meant to be a joke. I bet some people will even be disappointed that the name "crapcoin" is already being used.
Not saying you have the same, but if you didn't listen to those individual ideas yet I doubt EC20 tokens would do the job.
It's a moral question, so there's no right answer, but plenty of us come down on the other side thinking that we're better off in the long run not taking every shortcut we see. It's a race to the bottom and profit at any cost that we've seen be destructive in the long run.
There's not a person on this planet that can't be sold some crap with the right pitch. Like Trump said, you play into their wildest fantasies and then let their imagination run wild. But, just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.
We all make significant investments in life (stock, real estate, cars, business ventures, etc.) and it's rare to find someone who's well versed in each of those areas. At some point we have to trust each other. When it comes time to spend that money you earned off of average Joe's, I hope you're not the average Joe in the next equation.
Compare that to the web where I know underlined text takes me somewhere else, hover over will give me the URL, there are standard browser components for input fields, buttons etc.
I'm really hoping there's a drop in framework for this which reaches mass adoption soon.
P.S. I understand that most tokens don't have much monetary value, but just wanted to understand the benefits and legal ramifications of taking on a custodial wallet...
Good stuff!
[1] https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/2847
> When you fill in the details and click create, MetaMask will ask you to confirm the transaction
> Check if you're ok with the ethereum transaction fee and click submit.
In this case it's creating a new contract (I didn't notice the "new contract" logo in MM at first glance). I have to dig into the FAQs to find the source for that contract, and as you point out MetaMask can't guarantee that's the actual source. So this is an easy opportunity to stick a backdoor in that can hijack your created coins at any point.
A better approach would be to call an existing contract on the blockchain which creates a new contract from it's own source. Is there a reason not to do this?
Anyone actually find a usecase for public, decentralized, verified ledgers?
Like I dont understand a use-case. Currency is basically solved by bitcoin.
After that, I dont see why you wouldnt trust a single source? Most things like social media, videos, medical records, etc... dont need to go through the blockchain. They can be centralized.
Anyway, asking this question here, because on reddit its awful.
Any programmers actually finding blockchain is going to be another tool for us to use? Or is it all hype and niche use-case?
But generally I agree, it's hard to design UIs in crypto, having to install and use a plugin like MetaMask doesn't add to the trustworthiness of the site.
It looks useful although for the people that do want to understand how the contract works it adds complexity to the codebase itself.
I definitely would use it for more complex smart contracts, but this one is meant to be easy and educational (like the whole app).
> 4. Viola!
(should be 'Voila!')
(should be 'Voila!')
SCNR
Shut up and take my money... to the moon!
This is 'Create your own (crap)token in 3 mins'. Not that its actually this hard -- copy paste ERC20 (and use a better version than this junk, maybe try SafeMath?).
Bearcoin anyone?
>A: Yes! You can create your cryptocurrency on one of Ethereum's test networks, instead of its main network. First, change the network to Ropsten or Rinkeby in MetaMask.
So you can create fake crap currency for free! Free fake crap is much better than costly real crap, because it's not actually crap, while it's actually free.
That would probably probably raise a decent amount of money...
When programming stopped to be fun not requiring money?
> I don't want to spend any real money. Can I still create a cryptocurrency?
> Yes! You can create your cryptocurrency on one of Ethereum's test networks, instead of its main network. First, change the network to Ropsten or Rinkeby in MetaMask.
Viola!
I've invested up to 99c to make some TimCoins and should be able to sell you a few shortly.