I did ask for donations in the past. Right now I do a little better than break even and it's good enough. I have another business and it makes plenty of money compared to the forums anyway. Both of my main forum sites were started in 2002.
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I did ask for donations in the past. Right now I do a little better than break even and it's good enough. I have another business and it makes plenty of money compared to the forums anyway. Both of my main forum sites were started in 2002.
Anomandaris
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I will try to explain why I think I get so many donations
I think the reason is because I offer something that no one else has. My forum is 100x better than all my competitors, even tho they get way more traffic, I have the best content and people tell me that all the time. I cater to people that want to learn, my site is like a massive Udemy Course
I have been working on this thing called the Game Hacking Bible for 5 years, it's a step by step guide from beginning to end that teaches you everything you need to know about reverse engineering and game hacking. It's not completed but the rough draft exists. It will take all the content I have produced in the past 5 years and combines it into a cohesive course.
Just to show you what kind of content makes us great
Like I said, I'm still working on it. But the preface to book 1 is here and it has 20 chapters
Guide - GHB1 - Start Here Beginner Guide to Game Hacking
Want to learn game hacking? Great, you're in the right place. GH is the absolute best place to learn game hacking. We have more resources, that are better organized and cater especially to beginners. We go in depth and explain every piece of the game hacking puzzle. 7 years of work have...
Preface for book 2 is here:
Guide - GHB2 - Beginners Guide To Reverse Engineering
What is reverse engineering? Reverse Engineering is taking bits and bytes and figuring out what they represent, how they are used and why. This is done by using the scientific method which is forming hypotheses and testing them. In the case of reverse engineering computer code we are...
Book 3 is still unreleased but a rough draft exists
I write massive guides like these two, I have about 40 of them
- https://guidedhacking.com/threads/code-detouring-hooking-guide.14185/
- https://guidedhacking.com/threads/how-to-get-started-with-anticheat-bypass.9882/
I think offering the best educational content on the topic is a huge part of it. We also have 300 Youtube tutorials with ~60k subscribers https://youtube.com/guidedhacking that's probably a big part too
Anomandaris
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Put up a "please donate" banner, people will donate. I ask for donations in ~10 different places
Anomandaris
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Still going strong, that May 4th 2020 Google update prevented 8 months of growth, but other than that things are good
Right before May 4th some keyword I ranked in the top 3 for went viral, so we got insane traffic boost for about a month
Hit 105k unique users per day a couple weeks ago
Right before May 4th some keyword I ranked in the top 3 for went viral, so we got insane traffic boost for about a month
Hit 105k unique users per day a couple weeks ago
Hotfix
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Great job. Thanks for sharing your story.
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