What ever happened to costas's worth30bucks.com

August 15, 2005 11:52 AM

Old-school MeFi question from a five-dollar-newbie: What ever happened to costas's worth30bucks.com that he won in the $30 giveaway?
posted by Plutor to MetaFilter-Related at 11:52 AM (8 comments total)

I mean, besides "nothing". I hope for an answer from the man himself.
posted by Plutor at 11:57 AM on August 15, 2005

Why not just e-mail him?
posted by SeizeTheDay at 12:03 PM on August 15, 2005

His home page listed doesn't work, so I kinda assumed the email wouldn't work, either. But I guess now I know what happens when I assume.
posted by Plutor at 12:05 PM on August 15, 2005

If I remember correctly, he had a plan to double the money every so often but after two months didn't have free time to pursue the project anymore.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:07 PM on August 15, 2005

*heh* I was mulling over resurrecting this as a new post/competition recently but couldn't remember who the hell had done it originally...
posted by i_cola at 12:20 PM on August 15, 2005

Tangentially related: I tried to keep the 30.00 giveaway going at one point, but at the time it seemed to me that there wasn't a lot of enthusiasm. Looking back on the thread, I see that there actually was some, and that jbushnell showed up 2 weeks later and volunteered to front it again. No one ever did anything, though, and it faded into oblivion.
posted by iconomy at 12:23 PM on August 15, 2005

I wish I could mark SeizeTheDay's comment as "best answer". Here's the response from Costas: "You're right; I started work on the site, and then run out of time shortly thereafter. I never really took it live... it's still not a bad idea."

So technically Matt's answer is "best" also. Bests all around!
posted by Plutor at 2:02 PM on August 15, 2005

I for one, read only the posts other people tell me are the best, or _____ wins! posts.
posted by Balisong at 9:06 PM on August 15, 2005