Million Dollar Metropolis

Browse and buy ads in a virtual city 🏙

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Browse and buy ads in a virtual city 🏙

2 followers

Million Dollar Metropolis is a unique 3D advertising platform built for the modern web. Look around and take in bright lights or opt to buy a futuristic ad in the city for all to see. It was inspired by the original Million Dollar Homepage project from 2005.

Launch tags:Marketing•Advertising

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Million Dollar Metropolis

Maker

Hey everyone! Thanks to @leandro8209 for helping me out with this. I'm the developer for this product, and it's a bit unconventional, so I'll briefly summarize: Some of you may have heard of the "Million Dollar Homepage" from 2005. A student made a website that was comprised only of a single, 1000 by 1000 image where he sold pixel "real estate" to advertisers. It was a weird idea, but eventually advertisers bought pixels to form images to advertise their product, and the developer ended up reaching his million-dollar goal. If you're interested, you can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th..., but the takeaway is that a novel concept can attract attention, and advertisers want to catch some of that attention, and as it grows it gets more attention, etc. What I've built is a new twist on that original idea where you can buy ads in a cyberpunk 3D metropolis. I wanted to create an environment that was stimulating and dynamic, like Times Square or Blade Runner. Personally, I also wanted to get better at 3D development, and even make games, and I thought the web platform and computer hardware had advanced enough that one can create compelling experiences that "just work", and are highly sharable and accessible. I started out on this over a year ago, and gave up when it didn't reach my expectations. A few months ago I started it up again and rewrote it from scratch. I wanted to make it responsive and smooth on desktop and lower-end mobile hardware too, so most of my time was spent optimizing and figuring out different performance bottlenecks. I plan to make the website more interesting by adding more features and graphical effects, like flying cars or holographic projections, or maybe even some sort of multiplayer component. If you have any cool ideas or adjustments you would make, let me know! Thanks P.S. You can use the URL https://milliondollarmetropolis.... for 20% off any ad! The price is reflected when you proceed to checkout.

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6yr ago

Shuuka

@branzyme great project. i have an idea like that too. can you right me on twitter please :)

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6yr ago

Reddit Write

The million dollar homepage had quite a few copycats, none of them made an impact like the first one. This one is actually quite fun. Good luck!

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6yr ago

Million Dollar Metropolis

Maker

@kobyof Thanks, it means a lot!

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6yr ago

I believe this would work fantastic if it was in a game rather than just a 3D cityscape. There is nothing just yet to make people re-visit the cityscape and as such, the value of advertising on it is rather limited. But the basic concept is brilliant and has a lot of potential as a business model. I can see it becoming a multi-million £££ idea in the right hands with the right strategy.

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6yr ago

Million Dollar Metropolis

Maker

@exopaul Yeah there's a lot of untapped potential in this space. Unfortunately it's really hard to design a rich world without multiple developers working to bring that vision to reality.

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6yr ago