Hey Product Hunt! ✌️
I’m James, one of the makers of MakerAds. Thank you so much to @bentossell for hunting us! 💙
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MakerAds is an ethical, unobtrusive ad network for makers. Since soft-launch our users have contributed over 70 beautiful adverts, and in the last month we've had over 50k network impressions!
💭 Inspiration
The maker community asked for a way to monetise their products with advertising, but without showing visitors irrelevant or ugly ads (or having them served from big bad corporations). Since makers also often struggle with self promotion so we wanted to create something to help solve both problems.
🛠 Solution
MakerAds is an ad network built by makers, for makers, and free for makers! Just head on over to https://makerads.xyz to submit your product to the network completely for free. Once live your ad will be part of our network of over 120 referrers.
If you like you can even support your fellow makers and become a paid referrer by including the ad script on your website, and showing off our friends' beautiful products! ✨
🎨Ad Creation Service
We know how hectic maker life can be... so if you don't have time to create an advert, our team of designers will make one for you for $5! Don't worry, you will still be able to sign-off on your ad before make it live.
⭐️ Sponsored Ads
Sponsored ads show up on the network more frequently, and pay for running costs of the MakerAds service. Plus 90% of the earnings from sponsored ads are distributed to our referrers via our revenue share system.
To celebrate our launch we're offering Product Hunt users a limited price for sponsored ad spots of $50 a month 😇 Head over to our self-serve form to reserve your spot.
Not convinced? Check out how our current sponsors are doing on our stats page here.
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👫 About Us
Danielle and I are a couple of travelling indie makers. You may remember us from one of our other product launches this year. We built MakerAds without funding and as with all our products, all of our data and metrics are completely open. MakerAds itself is actually open source if you’d like to contribute!
😇 Special thanks
Thank you so much to @iamarnob and @mshra_ji for creating our awesome logo GIF (again)! Thanks to Blockstack, Earnest Capital and our other first sponsors for their support early on for our vision. And a million thanks to all our referrers for hosting an ad and getting us started on our journey!
We will be here and on Twitter all day if you have any feedback, questions, or want to say hello, we’d love to chat!
* Danielle & James
@bentossell@iamarnob@mshra_ji@jamesivings super awesome idea guys! I love the nature of indie makers sharing, collaborating and helping each other. I just submitted my ad.
@jamesivings@dinkydani21 so cool! You guys nailed it again. What a brilliant idea to also offer a design service because some of us (🙋♀️) are design challenged.
Will you be offering different ad sizes in the future?
Helpful, free and totally simple
Unobtrusive adverts for makers. They help to even build a small banner if you don't have one. I think it was made for me, anyway, at that time (It's been a while)
@le_duke Technically yes, but based on the referrers the demographic that the ads will be shown to will mostly be makers, developers and other creatives. That said there are a few niche products on the network that are doing quite well.
✅ Unobtrusive
✅ Moderated
✅ Helps makers, for free
The world needs more products like this.
One question though — will you be able to sustain the whole operation just on the shoulders of paid ads? I imagine, there’s a much higher demand for free ads?
@whitishj it's coming! To start with we'll be using the stats dashboard, and you'll have to verify you own the referral domain to get a payout.
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This is amazing and exactly what I'm looking for right now!
@jamesivings is this still live? Looks like a host error when I go to the site and I'm now noticing this was launched 2 years ago
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congratulations for the this great product! Your impact to makers community is felt daily and keep it up
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Helpful, free and totally simple Unobtrusive adverts for makers. They help to even build a small banner if you don't have one. I think it was made for me, anyway, at that time (It's been a while)
Pros:simple, quick, what more could you ask for?
Cons:I can't think of anything right now
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