Million Dollar Home Page copied by over 500 copycats!?
According to milliondolloarhomepage creator Alex Tew, his Million Dollar Home Page idea has been copied, emulated, borrowed and tweaked or downright stolen by over 500 copycats for their own websites. Now, I knew there were quite a few copycats, but I would not have guessed 500. That goes to show you how uncreative people are I guess. Latch on to someone else’s good idea and hope to ride his coat tails. Let’s hear it in Alex’s own words from his blog…
Just a quick weekend update. Apparently there’s nearly 500 copycat sites, which is quite a lot more than the 350 I mentioned earlier this week. I’m sure there are more popping up all the time. It’s almost getting silly now!
Some people were wondering if I thought this site is a long-term business that will run like a regular company. Of course this site is NOT a long-term business - it is a one-off ‘business event’ - a fun idea and an opportunity to be part of ‘internet history’. I naively thought this went without saying, but apparently not. There is no long-term business concept here; it’s a unique idea that will only work once. I really hope we’ve cleared that up now!
Don’t worry, Alex. Some of us know better. We know that this would really have to take an amazing twist to become anything long term. But, hey, who even needs long term when you might have a cold $1 million by Christmas this year!? If milliondollarhomepage keeps up the pace it has set in its first two months, then that’s just what would happen.
In other words, Alex reached $500k exactly two months after starting his site, and he’d hit $1 million in just four total months! Man, envy is just not a good enough word here… Best of luck to you, mate! And if you need a US business partner, let me know! 
December 21st, 2005 at 6:42 pm
My hat goes off to Alex Tew, he certainly found a unique idea to sell ad space. I actually took his idea one step further… selling ad space by the BYTE! You can get an ad for as little as $50 and you’ll never pay more than $1000! There are so many “pixel pushers” out there now that I needed to put a spin on the pixel advertising concept. Check out http://www.buckabyte.com
January 3rd, 2006 at 1:38 am
The thousands of copy-cats that appeared after milliondollarhomepage
made it big won’t get too far since the idea of selling pixels is no
longer novel! But now this site has popped up:
Claiming to “change the way advertising works”, OnlyOneAd.com is
selling only one ad. That’s right, there is only space for ONE ad
on the page. The first ad costs $1. To replace the ad, the next
advertiser must pay $2. After that, it costs $4, and so on. Each
new ad costs twice the amount of the previous ad. That means the
21st ad costs over one million dollars. The creator seems convinced
he can reach his goal, which actually seems possible if he can
generate enough buzz. He’s keeping a detailed blog, and so far only
the 1st ad has sold for $1! How is this going to turn out?
http://www.onlyonead.com/