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Ask HN: What to do with this meme?

Hello,

I made this little web app - iwl.me, which is just a box with a button. You give it some text, it analyzes it and tells you what famous writer you write like (I won't go into algorithmic discussion for now), and gives you a badge for blog and a link for sharing on Twitter/Facebook/Buzz. It's up for 3 days now, here are stats:

   2nd day - 12,000 uniques
   3rd day - 100,000 uniques
It's spreading just like a perfect meme should :-) E.g. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=iwl.me

My question is, what should I do with it:

a) for monetary gain (It already achieved the SEO effect I planned, not sure what to do now).

b) for a good cause. I'm already thrilled to notice that people discover and re-discover writers and say "Oh, I write like [writer], I must read more of his works." What can I do to get more of this effect?

What do you think? I'm open to ideas or deals. Thank you!

PS Technical details: it's running on a single Rackspace Cloud instance with 512 MB RAM, Apache+web.py.

53 points dchest 16 years ago 67 comments

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