Hey SN,
I've been working on something for the past few months and it's live: SatsDrop - a Bitcoin faucet advertising platform.
The problem I was trying to solve
Traditional faucets pay people just for clicking a link. Advertisers get fake engagement, bots farm the rewards, and everyone loses. Meanwhile, regular ad networks are pay-per-click or pay-per-impression - neither tells you whether a real human actually absorbed anything about your product.
How SatsDrop works
Advertisers create campaigns with their website URL, a sats-per-view rate, and a quiz about their site
Earners visit the site in a full-screen viewer for a set time (30-120 seconds depending on the campaign)
When the timer ends, the site disappears and the earner answers the quiz from memory
Payout is proportional to their quiz score - harder question types (text input) are worth more points than easier ones (true/false)
Advertisers only pay for views where the earner proved they actually looked
No cheating the timer, no looking up answers while the site is open, no bots that can fake a cold-recall quiz.
The Bitcoin side
Everything runs on Lightning. Advertisers fund campaigns with a Lightning invoice, earners withdraw to any Lightning address or LNURL. No shitcoins, no fiat rails, no credit cards.
Where it is now
Live and running. A handful of active campaigns, earners completing tasks, payouts going out, early stage.
I built this partly because I wanted a way to advertise Bitcoin products to a Bitcoin-native audience that's actually paying attention - not just clicking past a banner. If you're building something on Lightning or in the Bitcoin space and want to try a campaign, I'd genuinely love to hear what you think about the format.
Happy to answer anything - especially criticism of the model.
I just created a test campaign. It is pending approval.
Your campaign is now live🤝
One thing I noticed is that it is missing the campaign description, please add it so it looks better😉
You can pause, edit it and them resume. Let me know if I can help.
Not working.
I got this screen.
The issue has been fixed :)
Ok. I'll try again asap.🙋♂️
Sweet👌
We do not control the advertisers' website, if their website is down or unreachable for some reason there is not much we can do. I will contact that advertiser to see whatsup. You can select other campaigns, I just checked them all and it's only that one that fails to open.
Interesting. I was trying to think what the flow is for a customer. Is it like this: a customer comes to satsdrop to see what good deals are available, or if any of their favorite companies are offering discounts, selects one, and then does the viewer and quiz?
Or do you see this as being something that customers could get to directly from the business's website (rather than starting at satsdrops)?
In the former case, I think it will probably select for certain kinds of customers -- kind of like coupons select for coupon clippers sometimes. Not necessarily a bad thing.
Anyhow, cool to see people thinking about how to use sats!
It's for people to learn about existing Bitcoin related projects, products or services. You earn sats when you answer the quiz the website gives you.
For any stackers who want to try running a campaign - use code STACKERS50 for 50% off the platform fee, first 50 uses.