FerrisBueller
Money Making Megastar!
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2014
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- Age
- 35
I've done quite a lot over the years. I'll include links from Archive.org if there are some available
- January 2007: One of my first tries at a forum was a Nintendo one on a free web host. It didn't do well, but it was fun experimenting with it all.
- February 2007: There was a gaming blog and forum I made in 2007. It lasted a few months before I got bored, but there was a group of friends I made through it that I stuck with for a couple of years on other sites, so that was nice. [Archive]
- June 2007: Then there was a retro gaming forum, think I only stuck with this for a month or so. I actually wish I'd stuck with it, reckon it would have done well! [Archive]
- September 2007: A TV forum. Never been the biggest TV watcher, but I decided to give this a go. [Archive]
- November 2007: A graphic design forum. When Photoshop tutorials and signature battles were all the rage. This went nowhere at all. [Archive]
- May 2008: A Pokemon forum was next. I've always been a fan of Pokemon, especially back then, so how could I lose. Well. I got bored after a month or two and ended it.
- May 2008: Me and a friend thought it would be fun to do a forum for Peep Show. Never went anywhere at all, the interest went after about a week. [Archive]
- June 2008: Resident Evil 5 was due to come out soon, so I made a forum for it. I have no idea why, I had absolutely no interest in the game. Fail.
- November 2008: A Megan Fox fansite. This one is embarassing. She was popular and I thought it would be a guaranteed success and make me loads of money. It didn't.
- January 2009: A Nintendo forum. A big Nintendo fan I thought this would be fun (it was to be fair) and do well (it didn't). [Archive]
- February 2009: A Nintendo dedicated news blog thing. After the forum the month before I thought maybe a simple news blog would be easier. Stopped this after about two weeks or so to have a break and never went back.
- March 2009: A forum for The Simpsons. I was sure this was going to be fun and a hit. It wasn't.
- July 2009: I decided to go back and try another TV forum and give it a better go this time. It was a little better than the last, but not great. [Archive]
- March 2010: I was going through a phase of watching a lot of films to decided to give a film forum a go. I tried giving these a decent go, made Youtube videos at one point to help promote it. [Archive]
- December 2010: I decided to try another Nintendo forum which actually lasted quite a while (for me), over a year. This was probably my favourite of all my sites, I liked how I'd put it all together, I tried really hard with this. [Archive]
- January 2017: After a long break, I was back with a Super Nintendo forum! I thought with how popular retro gaming had become over the last few years, especially the SNES, it'd do well. I worked on it for a month or two, got it looking really nice and everything, then realised I was completely bored of doing websites and closed it before getting a single member.
Well, that's quite a lot... I'm 100% certain there are some more that I can't remember or find and evidence of, too.
My problem was that I always enjoyed working on the site, tinkering around with things and doing the design work etc, but the actual promotion was such a pain.
- January 2007: One of my first tries at a forum was a Nintendo one on a free web host. It didn't do well, but it was fun experimenting with it all.
- February 2007: There was a gaming blog and forum I made in 2007. It lasted a few months before I got bored, but there was a group of friends I made through it that I stuck with for a couple of years on other sites, so that was nice. [Archive]
- June 2007: Then there was a retro gaming forum, think I only stuck with this for a month or so. I actually wish I'd stuck with it, reckon it would have done well! [Archive]
- September 2007: A TV forum. Never been the biggest TV watcher, but I decided to give this a go. [Archive]
- November 2007: A graphic design forum. When Photoshop tutorials and signature battles were all the rage. This went nowhere at all. [Archive]
- May 2008: A Pokemon forum was next. I've always been a fan of Pokemon, especially back then, so how could I lose. Well. I got bored after a month or two and ended it.
- May 2008: Me and a friend thought it would be fun to do a forum for Peep Show. Never went anywhere at all, the interest went after about a week. [Archive]
- June 2008: Resident Evil 5 was due to come out soon, so I made a forum for it. I have no idea why, I had absolutely no interest in the game. Fail.
- November 2008: A Megan Fox fansite. This one is embarassing. She was popular and I thought it would be a guaranteed success and make me loads of money. It didn't.
- January 2009: A Nintendo forum. A big Nintendo fan I thought this would be fun (it was to be fair) and do well (it didn't). [Archive]
- February 2009: A Nintendo dedicated news blog thing. After the forum the month before I thought maybe a simple news blog would be easier. Stopped this after about two weeks or so to have a break and never went back.
- March 2009: A forum for The Simpsons. I was sure this was going to be fun and a hit. It wasn't.
- July 2009: I decided to go back and try another TV forum and give it a better go this time. It was a little better than the last, but not great. [Archive]
- March 2010: I was going through a phase of watching a lot of films to decided to give a film forum a go. I tried giving these a decent go, made Youtube videos at one point to help promote it. [Archive]
- December 2010: I decided to try another Nintendo forum which actually lasted quite a while (for me), over a year. This was probably my favourite of all my sites, I liked how I'd put it all together, I tried really hard with this. [Archive]
- January 2017: After a long break, I was back with a Super Nintendo forum! I thought with how popular retro gaming had become over the last few years, especially the SNES, it'd do well. I worked on it for a month or two, got it looking really nice and everything, then realised I was completely bored of doing websites and closed it before getting a single member.
Well, that's quite a lot... I'm 100% certain there are some more that I can't remember or find and evidence of, too.
My problem was that I always enjoyed working on the site, tinkering around with things and doing the design work etc, but the actual promotion was such a pain.
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