C and PERL are extremly powerful languages.
Things can be done that are not even possible with Ruby or Python, PHP...etc...

no free script will make you a decent amount of money
dont waste your time thinking you will get webmasters to click your sponsor banners and signup under you lol

Why wouldn't they click the sponsor banner?

Ok, let's me tell you a little story:

We released a totally free adult only hardlink exchange script about a year ago, the first one that was on the market. No skimming, no own links added, only webmaster referral banners on the submit page and after submission. So, not a single surfer lost. We thought we'd be nice and didn't encrypt it since many hosts offer php without zend.

What happened:
About 70% of the webmasters using it removed our banners or replaced our affiliate IDs. 20% Changed the whole script in one way or another. It was republished 5 times under different names, 1 guy tried to sell it. That's the result after going through about 200 copies we found running, probably there are alot more. At the end, some spammers found the script and spammed all sites they found using it with daily auto submissions.

What we learned:
- Most webmaster don't accept any ads, even if they get something for free, they prefer fucking you and violate copyrights, as you see above, 90%.
- 21 webmaster signups via our ID, one "active" who made us about 20$ total, great, enough for two happymeals and an extra drink !

The end:
We closed down the download and trade database and are working on a paid version, since we got alot of other projects going and it's not first priority, it will take a few more months. We spend 80% of the work on making it cheat proof, it will re-check backlinks every day, it will have a blacklist feature, it will detect autosubmitters, it will verify PR and backlink via multiple methods, it will stop wroking as soon as any code is modified, every copy has a unique hidden ID and we have a lawyer ready to sue everybody trying to fuck with us again.

It's a shame, we are sorry for all the honest users. It was our idea to give webmaster something to save time, make more money and make us a bit from referrals, a win-win situation...but reality showed it was a terrible mistake to assume that most other webmasters have any business ethics.

Yes, still angry when thinking about it, we are no newbies in this industry, but you'll never run out of bad surprises in adult.

Oh Shit! :1orglaugh

I never followed up on my free TGP script so the same thing probably happened. Like you said, I didn't get even one webmaster referral. I figured the script just wasn't being used by the people who downloaded it.

Well, maybe I will make a really cheap price so everybody can buy it.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

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I agree.

http://www.germesia.com/scripts/tgb/index.html

Something like this but free and I'm in heaven ;)

You can always charge a little and I buy from you.

:winkwink:

Cuz it's one of the most powerful languages out there. Way more poweful than php etc...

50 scripts :)

52 scripts :winkwink:

SlimStat can do most of that. It's also free.

There's a pretty cool script that can detect the faces in a picture and crop those out. I think it was flash or java though.

a good picture rating script

Would love to know what you're referring to... send me an email or icq if you have a url... webmaster /at/ blthumbs.com; 193963124. Thanks :)

I'd love to have a
"Show me the money" script, directly linked to my bank account

a fake tgp with auto free hosted gallery rotator would be nice

I did this idea before and didn't get any webmaster referrals.
It was like: "Thanks for the free script but I don't want to click you sponsor link so you can make five dollars because that would be giving you something for free."

So if I revive this script with improvements I will have to sell it.
Would you pay $50 for it?

@sortie, as a couple guys already mentioned if it's gonna be free make sure you encode it. Otherwise, people will alter the code as they see fit and start redistributing it from other websites.

I'd love something like Autoblogger :)

so i guess no voting script? :Oh crap

I didn't say that. I was just thinking of something more complex.
The voting script is easy for me to do, so I may do it in addition to what else I choose.

Yeah, I'll fix that problem.
Too bad though because that only makes more work before I can present the script.

Yeah, I hear ya - it's unfortunate. However, it's really the only way to keep things under control and prevent you from falling out of the loop of your own software. It's happen to me before - stuff will end up on warez websites especially if it's good.

add to that the ability to upload fhg lists and it would be an uber cool script

gets my vote

comus does it all for ya.

nice one :thumbsup
but it has some issues with installed scripts (phpbb, wordpress, stuff like that) - like most stats scripts... that's why i said it should be going through htaccess.

Not hard? it has been in development for years :-)

Anyway.. why a clone? you can download it for free already..

Nope, but I'd sign up under ya ref codes though:thumbsup

Do a free content management script for inside a pay site and you will have a lot of new best friends.

Something LIKE it? What features would you like to see us add? :)

Hey man can you hit me up?

Comus isn't free :winkwink:

Personally, I'd like to see a scaled down version for free or at least cheaper. I don't need the ability to maintain 1000 blogs at once, but I wouldn't mind using it to queue up several posts for a handful of blogs.

uhm just write me the one that dumps affiliate codes in my hosted galleries and a potd script. ill be happy. unless someone can do that for cheap, ill be happy too!

I would like a decent newsletter signup script

has anyone mentioned a gallery submitter script with a partner account/recip link manager? I know chameleon submitter wont like it, but, well, it would be pretty nice.

Support is what keeps the price at $299, unfortunately. We won't compromise on our support (search GFY for examples of how people feel about it), and staying on top of it is very expensive.

I wouldn't expect ABPSA to be available forever, at ANY price, though. We're getting pressure from existing (cross-product) clients to either increase the price majorly to discourage proliferation, or to discontinue selling it altogether.

An auto submitter for all the youtube clones.