Roflfaucet
ROFLfaucet.com – Volunteer Game Center
- Gamification system—points, leaderboards, achievements
- Entertainment content—funny GIFs/videos between tasks
- Gaming terminology—”raids”,” “XP,” “guilds” of volunteers
- Clean, lightweight—custom built for volunteers
- The ROFL twist—”no payout because money goes to charity recipients.”
This is a faucet for our own Useless Coin. Members play games and claim from the faucet to get coins added to their account, which they can then allocate to their chosen recipients. Monthly revenue from ads, as networks and donations are distributed to our existing recipients’ specific projects, as listed on directsponsor.net.
Below Is Redundant
[2025 update below…]
Bitcoin faucets give out free bitcoin in return for pageviews bearing ads. It’s difficult to make money from them, as ad revenues are quite small, but for advertising something, it’s a very cheap and possibly free way to do it and to reach the exact market segment we need.
Differentiation
Faucets are generally pretty boring; you just see a load of ads, some tricks to get extra page views, and maybe a timer to keep you on the site longer. You earn a few satoshi. Roflfaucet is different.
- Cartoons and other funny pictures interspersed between the ads make people more likely to see the ads and maybe click one.
- A short (not more than 30 sec) video clip (funny) instead of a timer
- The video clip also contains the answer to the anti-bot puzzle.
- Or send them to Odysee to view the video there and get more views (puzzle answer in description so we can change it easily).
- Option to donate reward to the ClickforCharity fund [edit 2025: they don’t get the option; they have no choice. 😂]
Link to sites we benefit from
We were able to use a paying site for the images, 2 in fact, but one is gone and the other has gone stupid, so Roflfuacet will have to be sad for a while.
There are social media-type sites out there with their own coins, and Pocketnet has shown that if they have some success, their coins can be worth something. So this needs more research. For perspective, I made about 3.5k dollars from Pocketnet without the help of a big site to send followers and still have 500 coins in there.
One site that is gone now paid BTC for the popularity of posts. We should keep a lookout for anything similar again.
For images (like animated gifs), we can just make the image an anchor and link to the post.
Videos and anti-bot
We can embed a short funny video from our odysee channel (was going to be YouTube, but they are evil scum and will demonetise us, or worse, when they see we don’t support Satan). This will get us odysee views. It will also advertise our channel with our relink and get some hits.
The video will contain the answer to an anti-bot question, so they can claim from the faucet. We can change the video regularly, e.g., hourly, but we need to make sure it doesn’t change while someone is watching. We can do this by having more than one faucet first page and changing that page so that when new people come to the new one just added, the system will know the answer came from the new page.
OR: We send people to the video page on Odysee, and the video page contains a link back to the faucet. This can be required in the referer header as a check that they actually went to the Odysee page. Referer headers can be spoofed; maybe the origin header would be a better one to use. (I did this previously with referer header, details are here, might save some time.
Well, that’s the bare bones of it; we will need to flesh it out a bit, but it could give us much higher traffic on Odysee and earn us some coins. Other paying video platforms might work too. Youtube would have been useful because it has those panels you can make appear at the end, so we could even change the Captcha on the videos without editing them.
Also, lottofaucet.com is another site we can use. Some sites will pay coins for referrals, but mostly we will be relying on getting something from people signing up and then liking our stuff.
2025 version
- We can make roflfaucet a clickforcharity project, where users are asked to go and join and visit like a real faucet, but it never pays out (ROFL)
- Users get levels; the higher their level, the bigger they get laughed at. We have plenty of images of people and cartoon characters laughing, so we can award those as level avatars.
- Show accounts and show where the money went.
- No outlay at all except the hosting.
- It may seem like people won’t join, but they join really stupid things, so why not? And it will be entertaining if we can keep it populated with good videos and images.
- Videos can be voted on. Images too, maybe.
Features
- nPTC = Not Paid To Click. 🤣
- The more you work, the more we laugh. Level awards by emoji or image in an increasing state of ROFL.
- Points (from the faucet or nPTC) to reach award levels.
- Random bonuses, which we immediately take back and laugh.
- Accounts—full accounting of site income and where it went. Very serious face.
Template
I think we don’t need WordPress for this if we can find a template that has 3 columns to accommodate the images on each side with the faucet in the middle. We can slow people down by sending them through 3 pages or so, like a normal faucet.
We could even make our own template. Better! No bloat at all.
- Need to be adaptive
- 3 columns or another way to show lots of images etc
- Simple layout; no need for anything we don’t need.
- Use a simple web page template, not a faucet script. We can add in the old faucet script because it doesn’t matter about bots, etc. because we’re not paying out.
Random Images
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function random_imglink(){
var myimages=new Array()
//specify random images below. You can have as many as you wish
myimages[1]="http://whatever.com/picture.jpg"
myimages[2]="http://whatever.com/image.jpg"
myimages[3]="http://whatever.com/graphic.jpg"
var ry=Math.floor(Math.random()*myimages.length)
if (ry==0)
ry=1
document.write('<img src="'+myimages[ry]+'" border=0>')
}
random_imglink()
//-->
</script>