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You shipped the thing. Good for you! Now comes the harder part: finding the people who'll pay for it. So you post it everywhere. A launch day, where you share the page with everything else that launched. A directory, where you're found only if someone goes looking. Ads, which stop the moment the budget does. The dreading pit of cold outreach, threads, replies. Hours a week go into it, the likes come in, and the customers mostly don't. The paid channels sell you an outcome nobody controls, and the invoice arrives either way. The free ones cost you the hours. I've been there, and some days I think I'm still there. That's the whole reason HourDrop exists, a side project that's now live. So this is what it is, and what it can't be: one product owns the whole homepage for one hour, with nothing beside it, and when the hour ends the next one takes over. A day has 24 hours, so a day has 24 slots, and yes, I checked. You can go ahead and check too! You pick your hour on a calendar that opens seven days ahead (US Eastern time). Bids start at $10, or you lock the hour outright for $100. Those are launch prices. The hour goes to whoever books it, with no vote and no editor deciding whether you're interesting enough (except for the approval period, which is necessary to filter out illegal stuff and fake discounts). The one thing you have to bring is a real discount: at least 20% off during your hour, and at least 10% off after it, for up to 24 hours from the start. If a discount turns out to be fake, the drop comes down and the hour isn't refunded. I'm strict about that one, because a screen full of fake deals is just another screen and we need to keep it real for people to make sure they visit the website. Shoppers need no account. Because, duh? They press one button, get your code or your discount link, and buy at your own checkout. HourDrop takes no cut of the sale , and there's no affiliate scheme underneath. I know how it feels so this is another strict rule here. Whatever you make during your hour is yours. What you get is the screen, at a known hour, for a known price, and the price starts at $10, so the bet is a small one. Of course, HourDrop promises no traffic and no sales, and I don't think anyone can. (If anyone promise you customers, run away as fast as you can) It's for people who sell something with a checkout today and can afford 20% off: a product, a tool, a store, a course, a paid newsletter, a membership, a service. If you have nothing to discount, or you want feedback more than sales, it's the wrong tool, and I'd sooner you didn't pay me to find that out. It's at https://hourdrop.net . The rules are all on one page, and that page is longer than the homepage, which tells you where the effort went.   submitted by   /u/Mobile-Athlete-8829 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/22 18:49:52