Well, I've always been a fan of the 37signals school of thought around bringing simplicity to web applications. You know - the whole "Getting Real" thing.

The way I see it, this has a better business model than a lot of web startups nowadays. At the very least, we've got a slow "burn rate" seeing as how we've spent about 5 hours on the project. As for generating revenue? I think we've got a while before we have to worry about that. We're more focused on scaling the systems than anything right now.

Over 100k clicks on day one? Here's to a successful launch!

This took you five hours? Seriously?

Photoshopping a nice button takes longer than you think...

At least your main competitor gets ad revenue:

http://www.instantrimshot.com/

Shit. I'll have to talk to the CEO about this. We should have done more market research.

I wouldn't worry, your button is much nicer looking than theirs (it's inverted, wtf?)

Don't forget its sister site:

http://www.sadtrombone.com/

I already use instantrimshot on a daily basis. Now this one. More than I use Facebook...

37 signals provides products that people pay for and get value from.

Your button adds no value, has no stickyness, and is not something people will pay for.

I think your "product" here is just creative trolling.

Maybe it would help if you thought of it as an art project instead. In any case - and I hope this doesn't come off as trolling - isn't creativity exactly the sort of thing us hackers should be striving for? If you measure success in terms of "mak[ing] something people want" then I'd call this a success, if only a small one. For whatever reason, people sure do seem to enjoy clicking that button!

Creativity? http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enNZ291... google: ajax counter.

Sell it to tipjoy :)

Or to Staples.