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Funny how a lot of these ideas already exist in some form - just in slightly different contexts. "Sexy mathematicians" is actually a great direction, didn’t think of that one. Or teachers could upload their own photos and send them as assignments for motivation :))

True, I also love the equivalent of musical "variations on a theme" so I'm here for it!

Honestly, when I saw the title "Sexy Math," I half-expected to see a picture of Jeffrey Goldblum (the chaos theory mathematician in Jurassic Park).


Thanks.

I do use LLMs for polishing text or generating some visuals, but the core concept and direction is always mine - otherwise I don’t really see the point of doing this :)

Thanks.

Glad you liked it :)

Interactive ads exist in some form, but they’re usually quite controlled and safe. What interests me more is the moment when the user actually does something to the ad - even destroys it. Then it becomes an experience, not just a banner, and stay in you memory.

The idea actually comes from a personal experience - when I was younger I spray-painted over a real outdoor ad, and I still remember that ad to this day. Not because it was good, but because I interacted with it. In thhis project I basically playing with that same idea in a digital form.


Thanks! That sounds really cool. Feels like this kind of stuff lives in random corners of the internet now, so having a place that collects it would be really interesting.

Glad you liked that one :) Yeah, I do have a few paying members.

I’m not trying to optimize for conversion or make a strong sales pitch. The members part is more like a way to put some projects in a "private layer" and see if anyone is curious enough to go deeper.

Payment also kind of brings the projects to life because they play with startup ideas, paying becomes part of the interaction.


... and would love to hear which projects you liked most.

Hey, happy to answer any questions about the projects.

Is there a free trial for your "half cremation half burial" service. I need to know if it's a good fit for me and my family.

Not sure you’d come back to review it :)

When I was a teenager, I vandalized a real outdoor ad with spray paint.

It was just a stupid impulsive moment.

But years later, I still remember that ad.

Not because it was good. Not because it convinced me. But because I tried to destroy it.

That stuck with me.

Most advertising is passive. You see it, you ignore it, it disappears.

But when you do something to an ad — interfere with it, attack it — it becomes an event.

So I built a small experiment called VandalAds.

It’s a banner format that people can vandalize directly in the browser (spray and destroy).

Anyone can try it or embed it on their own site (free, just a small JS snippet).

Here: https://absurd.website/vandalads/


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