Spacewolff

@rrhoover no, but I'll give anyone from ProductHunt a discount on my arm tattoo. 10% off, but I can approve or deny the tattoo :)

@rrhoover @mbrwolff will SW cover the tattoo costs if its of a wolf?

@dean_glas thank you! I had a startup before that was a transparent TV (pretty cool). Towards the end, I wanted to finance the manufacturing, so I went to local nail salons and asked if I could pay them to hang the TV in their window. I then went to local yoga studios and juice bars who shared the same audience, and got them to pay to advertise on the TV. The concept took off! I quickly realized that my product wasn't solving a problem; I was. Small businesses don't know how to advertise. And, I was monetizing the excess space of the salons, so the space was cheaper. I took a step back and decided the best way to scale would be to create a marketplace that both aggregates traditional ad space (such as newspapers and TV) and crowdsourced ad space, creating a one stop shop for advertisers and automating the ad sales process.

@jrwallenberg thanks for the upvote. The chicken or the egg problem is tough. The markets we're focusing on all share the same audience/market, so that makes it easier. We're concentrating now on building our inventory of space owners and ad spaces, but we're noticing also that users are selling ad space to fund their ad campaigns, so they're effectively acting as both "sellers" and "buyers."

@mbrwolff Cool - great to see that both sides are helping each other. Thanks for answering!

@n_events thanks for your question. Thankfully, I'm a lawyer with my masters in real estate. There are some issues with displaying signs, but it varies by county and also a lot of landlords prohibit it. We have found some workarounds, but it also varies township by township. Our lawyers routinely check our marketplace to make sure the ad space is actually sellable, and then we'll let our space owners know if it's not. We do plan on lobbying in the future, as we believe people should be able to do what they want with their property, so long as it isn't offensive to others.

@n_events @mbrwolff I was just telling someone that I looked at this space before and backed away for the reason you cited above. The restrictions on displaying advertising on private property is a spider's web of regulations. Kudos to you for tackling it and best of luck.

@n_events Great question! I've been through this struggle before as an artist and getting approval for murals that beautify the neighborhood.

@scotty_bowler thanks Scott! We built the site focusing on users who want to monetize excess space first, then second for users who have a business that already sells ad space. We find the second has lowered their prices because they can cut out the cost of ad salespeople and the markup of media buyers to the end user.