How to monetize a website that is making views?

Immoral, but profitable:

- Put ads on the site

- Force people to give you their email to see results, then sell the mailing list

- Collect as much information about the user as you can, compile it with the photos of them that they've given you, and sell it

- Add amazon affiliate links to anti-balding products (least immoral of the lot)

Not immoral, but won't make you much money:

- Paywall

- Beg for donations

Affiliate link for rogaine and/or books about how to look good bald.

I am unable to access this website.

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This site can’t be reached amibalding.co refused to connect.

Try:

Checking the connection Checking the proxy and the firewall ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

You can sell stuff in a legit way for people who are balding. No affiliate bullshit, instead you take orders and sell the products right there on your website. That's a legit and sustainable business for you.

The question is if it's "below your dignity" to deal with actual physical products and customers, because I've found that hackers usually have this weird hang-up.

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If you really have a site with a lot of people who are visiting specifically because they're anxious about balding, balding treatments are one of the most stereotypically lucrative products. You should hold out for a hell of a lot more than 100 dollars and a resume piece. Prequalified anxious traffic is worth a huge amount and there are a lot of high margin anti balding products with money to throw around.

There's a clear call to action - if someone is balding, offer to direct them to an educational page that explains current treatments and their advantages / disadvantages, using affiliate links.

Could also partner with one of those new internet based services where they have someone briefly meet with a doctor then prescribe them finasteride.

Perhaps some more model work too! I'm about a 5 and it called me 1.8

Nice idea and implementation, though!

Shop this thing to men’s product brands and look for a micro acquisition. Good little gimmick to have on HIMS or Rogaine.com

If you don't want to do very much, you can try adsense. If nothing else you'll get a good sense of what the floor is.

A potential complication is the source of your traffic. What works for an American audience may not work for a _____ audience.

Sometimes it makes sense to have Amazon affiliate ads for countries where that's a thing, and maybe toss the rest to Adsense.

Big $$$$ in hair transplants, but ethical to vet your vendors.

The content is so light, if it even starts to take off, it should be worth translating into other languages.

Try being more aggressive with your marketing-- don't wait for people to go to your site, go herd them there yourself.

Use your tool to scan high-profile Instagram photos and for anyone with >n degree of baldness, market hair restoration products to them. I recommend the indirect approach: subtly comment on peoples' photos with stuff like "oh man, I remember when my hair started thinning..." Don't do this to people's wedding and engagement photos unless you're trying to be Evil.

Don't even suggest they are balding, just remind them that baldness happens to people of their age and let their own vanity and insecurity do the rest. Followers will see that as well and since so many fashion themselves after influencers, you'll appeal to their insecurities too. Engage a sibling comment or two for legitimacy and then steer people to your site to check for themselves. Then you recommend hair growth solutions.

You technically could just spam every account like this, but targeting accounts where baldness is an actual threat will keep the scheme covert for longer. Attempting this on anybody with a full set of luxurious locks will blow your cover.

You could also sell your own product. Private label some Latisse sourced from India or something. That stuff is marketed for eyelash growth but would probably make hair grow on a piece of sheet metal. The retail US price is exorbitant.

Sell it to one of the hair loss replacement type companies for a million.

What I don't get is why you need AI here. The link at the bottom to the scale makes it easy to verify by looking in the mirror, and that is less hassle than trying to gyrate my head into different positions to get the shoots done.

I think AI could do more here? For example - what would I look like with treatment X, Y, Z. And in general what are the treatments and tradedoffs. Last time I looked into it there is some kind of pill that only works for some men and if it works you have to keep taking it or it all falls out again. And there are implants. Obviously there are also wigs etc. And the cheapest option - a number 2 all over.

Awesome project! I’m sure someone would be willing to buy this from you if the traffic is big enough. If you want to move on to other engineering projects this may be best path. If you’re interested in learning sales and marketing yourself I would look into affiliate marketing with hair loss product companies. Happy to chat more about this if you want help.

I have never had any indication to think that I am balding until I used this app.

I want to say it is broken. =)

Sign up for Adsense or another vendor and place some ads

Offer a certified Picard rating. The more bald one is, one gets a more % like Picard. You can sell these for a few bucks plus shipping.

Remember, baldness is evolution. You don't see apes on the internet do you?

Ads are fine, but please try to use an ethical, privacy focused ad provider and please don't throw angry popups at people who are using ad blockers. I understand that my ad blocking is possibly reducing sites' revenue, but I can't stand the way the web looks without ad blocking on. It's cluttered, provides visual noise (especially for animated ads), and is extremely distracting.

With that being said, best wishes in your endeavors with this site!

I have to wonder about your AI method. Surely the way you comb or style your hair in the photos can influence the results? And if you’re going to push product aren’t you not really motivated to make your AI as accurate as possible?

And is balding really all about hairline anyway? Personally while my hairline has not seen any noticeable recession, I have noticed that the individual strands of my hair have gotten thinner with age, to the point that my hair is a bit more difficult to style and scalp is sometimes more visible in certain hard lighting. I have seen older men with hair in all the right places but their actual hairs are so thin you can see quite a bit of scalp, so basically balding. I wonder if I am on a path to end up like these men or if I’m simply seeing a normal maturing of my hair follicles. Probably not something the AI is trained for.

Nice idea! Could you comment about your tech stack?

I'm sure you have other things on your mind based on the many helpful comments here, but I actually got an error when trying to click the "use my camera" button on your site:

Error checking camera permission: TypeError: 'camera' (value of 'name' member of PermissionDescriptor) is not a valid value for enumeration PermissionName. e Camera2.js:16 Babel 7 e Camera2.js:14 im Camera2.js:24 React 7 Camera2.js:21:16 Error accessing camera: DOMException: The object can not be found here. Camera2.js:40:18

In the browser, the site rendered a white screen under the header.

I'm on Firefox 116.0 on Pop!_OS (a debian) 22.04.

it says i'm "strongly balding" (6.2)... i don't think so, like at all? does it pick up some kinds of signals I wouldn't be aware of? or is it simply about my haircut or head being weird?

not only are you balding, you're a fucking loser!