Hackernoon & Free TON Partnership proposal

Partnerships Accepted Proposals
#41

Reporting the performance of the Free TON campaign on HackerNoon

Pretty+Interactive report - here

(Brass) Tacky Report (Read on)

150 stories published. Read them here.

62,000+ people saw the Free TON ads

4102+ clicks

Press release - PRweb

Organic coverage - Wfmz, mediabulletin,

LiveStream Winners Announcement - Link

Published Stories:

Under the aegis of the partnership, HackerNoon is running a writing competition (until the end of 2021) on YOUR understanding, expectations, and concerns regarding #decentralized-internet. You can participate here and stand to win up to $1500 in TON crystals.

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The contest garnered 98 submissions during the first phase and winners were announced here. As the contest enters the next phases, the compounding effect shall lead to more submissions and more coverage of Free TON.

Brass Tack Stats

  • 148 stories published (link)
  • 750 - number of hours people read your stories this quarter (That’s 31 days)
  • 100,000 - number of people who spent at least 3 mins on your stories:

Tagged ADs:

These are the ADs shown on the tagged pages and at the bottom of the story pages.

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Free TON ads are shown across the board on every decentralization-related page (over 10,000 pages). This enables the audience already interested in decentralization to see the Free TON ads.

The Free TON ads here performed at a record-high of 6.45% average CTR. For comparison, the avg CTRs of some other avenues are listed below for reference:

  • Google Adwords - 1.91% (source)
  • Google Display ADs - 0.35% (source)
  • Facebook ADs - 0.89% (source)
  • Instagram ADs - 0.22% (source)
  • Reddit ADs - 1.57% (source)
  • Pinterest ADs - 0.2% (source
  • Quora - 1.2-3% (source)

Brass Tack Stats

Newsletters

HackerNoon’s tech briefs are sent to those readers who subscribed to received customized newsletters that pertain to their reading tastes. On these newsletters, your ad that goes out looks like this:

This AD is present in the middle and at the bottom of the newsletter.

Here too, the CTR is significantly higher than the industry average of 2.5% (source)

Brass Tack Stats

  • Tech Briefs (customized newsletters) sent - 107
  • Daily Send Volume (Average) - 201,459
  • Open Rate (Average) - 25.93%
  • CTR (Average) - 3.49%

In accordance with the vesting schedule in the original partnership, please send the 2nd of 4 tranches for 150,000 TONs.

#42

Dear partners and community members. We already have an article about Hacker Noon Partnership on Free TON Wiki. So far only in Russian. Ready for translation into English and other languages. If you find any inaccuracies in this article please report to the Wiki Chat EN / RU. Thank you

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#43

Hello Free TON community,
As the first winner of the decentralized-internet article contest June/July, I have received 3800 TON Crystals worth $1430 ≈ $1500 according to the fair market value today. I would like to thank @Utsav and other Hackernoon editor team for evaluating my article. As it is the part of Free TON - Hackernoon partnership, there will be more thoughtful articles even in the future. Good luck everyone :blush:

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#44

Reporting the performance of the Free TON campaign on HackerNoon

An itemized list of all components that cover our proposal - and then some!

Writing Competition

The number of stories published under the contest: 264 (as of writing)

That is a whopping 114 stories in the last 90 days(Q3). By comparison, only 75 stories were published in Q2.

This reflects a 52% increase in the number of stories that passed HackerNoon’s Editorial review.

A total of 14873861 seconds or 172 days or 5.65 months was spent by HackerNoon readers on stories that educated them on the benefits/impact/potential of a decentralized internet.

Award Announcements:

Announcements of May/June

Announcements of July

Announcements of August

HackerNoon Supports FreeTON’s Breaching of 63,000 TPS

We hosted Mitja, Pavel, and Benjamin on the HackerNoon podcast to discuss the technical aspects of the FreeTON Blockchain.

The episode is live on Youtube, Spotify, Podbean, Stitcher, and a host of other podcasting platforms enumerated here.

Announcing Winners of the Writing Competition

HackerNoon conducts a livestream with the winners of the writing competition and the members of the FreeTON community. We just announced the winners of the August round and shall conduct a new livestream podcast for the same for the following months too.

Newsletters sent to 120,000+ subscribers - DAILY!

Sample (here)

Number of Free TON Placements per newsletter - 3

(Right at the top, right at the bottom, and in the middle)

HackerNoon Offers Free Advertisement to FreeTON at Startups of the Year

Startups of the Year is the world’s largest event for startups. Over 4300 cities are represented and over 40k+ startups are participating.

On all of the startups located in the Eastern European region, a prominent AD for Free TON has been placed at:

  1. On the home page

  2. On the top of every city page from Eastern Europe

  3. Banner ADs on every city page from Eastern Europe

  4. Specific Press Releases - here

(If you haven’t already participated in the #decentralized-internet writing competition, do that right away and win TON crystals)

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Contest: DeAnalytics Q4/21 Token Distribution Program
#45

And why do not you say, just the result is announced for May/June but no TON Crystal was sent to winners ? Article contest on Hackernoon brought me on this forum. I wrote articles but my articles were not included in the nomination list. I contacted all the winners but no one has received their prizes & I lost motivation to participate there. Looking like just a business gimmick with a corrupted deals.

Where is the proof that you received your prize money? Are you only one to recieve prize money? It was said $2000 worth TON on the announcement but you recieved just $1430 it is not even close to $1500 then how can it be fair man ?

#46

Is it going well? Keep us informed :slight_smile:

#47

Sorry that you felt that way!

Could you please send over your wallet address to me in DMs and the link to the contest you won?

I’ll make sure that you get your dues!

Clarification on the claim of non-payment to winners: We reach out to all winners almost as soon as we announce. Sometimes, we do not hear back from them or sometimes we hear back months later. But, what always happens is that winners get paid.

Fun fact - just sent the winnings to a person not 5 mins ago who was a winner in our first competition as well as the current one.

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#48

The number of stories published, quarter on quarter has increased by 52% in Q3 as compared to Q2.

The story submissions from the wider realm of decentralization have also started to participate in the competition a lot.

For example, during the first quarter, almost every participant was a FreeTON aficionado.

In this quarter that went by (Q3), we had quite a few Ethereum devs participating. This was heartening!

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#49

I am not a winner but my friends are. You contacted them, no you are lying. Okay I might bring all of them here for the proof. At least community should also know , there is something odd. I am also trying to reach David Smoke regarding this issue so that he could able to see the system logs whether emails were sent to the all winners or not & I also doubt that all winners got their prize…Few have posted in this thread but he is in silence regarding the proof, what does it mean. This is community & we have right to know everything.

#50

This is a lie! Utsav contacted me and explained all the points.
If some of your friends were not paid, why didn’t they write it directly?

Это обман! Ютсав связался со мной и разьяснил все моменты.
Если кому-то из Ваших друзей не выплатили, то почему они не написали это напрямую ?

#51

Maybe you got confused and your application has not yet been considered like mine? My application still hangs not reviewed. So don’t worry, everything will be fine. Below I attach my post to confirm the authenticity of my words. Do not worry.
I am 100% confident in this person!

Может быть вы перепутали и Вашу заявку еще не рассмотрели как и мою ? Моя заявка еще висит не просмотренная. Поэтому не переживайте, все будет в порядке. Ниже прикрепляю свой пост для подтверждения подлинности моих слов. Не переживайте.
Я Уверен в этом человеке на 100% !

https://hackernoon.com/preview/xXLN1kohLlsPgqkd7hFz

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#52

My friend has won several hackernoon contests and I am sure that everything is clean there and there is no deception there, especially since this is one of the largest communities.

Мой товарищ несколько раз выигрывал конкурсы на hackernoon и я уверен, что там все чисто и никакого обмана там нет, тем более это одно из самых крупных сообществ.

#53

Это очень круто что хакернун является нашим партнером! спасибо за качество и за отличную работу!
а по поводу того что не было оплаты это ложь,наши учасники неоднократно получали выигрыши,и открыто говорили что получили его! не надо лукавить!

It’s very cool that hackernoon is our partner! thanks for the quality and great work!
but about the fact that there was no payment, it is a lie, our participants have repeatedly received prizes, and openly said that they received it! no need to dissemble!

#54

очень смешно читать комментарии где утверждают что хакернун никому не оплачивал ))) я первый победитель этого конкурса - мне все оплатили без какой-либо задержки ))) данный конкурс и партнер в целом - очень необходим нашему комьюнити

it’s very funny to read the comments where they say that hackernoon did not pay anyone))) I am the first winner of this competition - I was paid for everything without any delay))) this competition and the partner as a whole are very necessary for our community

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#55

Hi,
If you were not a winner then why are you showing excessive interest here? Are you venting your frustration for not receiving the prizes? Winners are selected based on different parameters and I think it was the fairest process to select the best articles. I might post the proof later because everything is public on the blockchain.
In the case of the May/June winning, yeah prize was not received as I was the fourth winner but I guess there were some issues and it will be solved from Hackernoon’s side and not from the forum’s end. Today, I might contact the team once again as my email is pending for a long time there.

Not really, check the messages from other winners in this thread.

Maybe, it was a typo. Generally, $1500 worth of TON Crystals is for the first winner. As it is a cryptocurrency, you need to know, the value is changeable that’s why $70 worth of TON Crystals is missing, I guess.

Update!
@Marcus You can check the proof here Free TON Blockchain Explorer

#56

Huh, lie? I guess limited members from a closed circle is coming here to mask the truth but truth is truth, it can not be overlapped dude. Let’s follow my response for the crystal clear evidence of corruption.
Winners who did not receive their prizes contacted Hackernoon support but there is no response. Perhaps they do not have ideas to come in this community but do not worry they will come here too.

You got paid because you were a winner of very first batch but not all winners have receive their prizes, I am 100% sure on it so without understanding the crux of matter why you are here ?

I am not venting frustration rather I am expecting the transparency because I have also invested time and efforts to create articles for the competition. I am not winner but I am interested because so many innocent users are cheated with a corrupted deals and Hackernoon should not be polluted as the investigations are going on there too.

Thanks it is the proof of 100% corruption. So you received 3800 TON, right ? But after my several comments, he has edited all the announcement posts but he is not as clever as I expected to overlap the truth​:joy::joy:. Now check this announcement #Decentralized-Internet Writing Competition: July Results Announced | HackerNoon the first winner receive 2000 TON , the sign “$” & Worth of TON crystals is removed. So as per edited announcement you should receive just 2000 TON but why you got 3800 TON :joy:? I have added screenshot below otherwise he will edit it again :joy:!
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As per original announcement here:

the first winner receives USD 1500 worth of TON and rest of members will be awarded accordingly but clearly, he tried to reduced everything now by replacing $ sign and “worth of TON”, lol.
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Again, prize amounts for winners of May/June is also edited now. Previously, it was $1000 worth of TON but now it is edited to 1000 TON only :joy::joy::joy::joy:!
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As per announcement they should award $3500 worth of TON Crystals but check the recent announcement, everything is changed and they have tried to tune with just 3500 TON.

Thanks for all the corrupted deals. I challenge you to prove me wrong if there is not corruption from the malicious agent !!

#57

I think this is lie. Coz i know 2 winners,too.

#58

I consider you a provocateur. You didn’t come here for the truth. You came here to insult and accuse people. You have no arguments. You have no truth. Have a good day. Don’t do nasty things and you won’t feel bad!

Я считаю Вас провокатором. Вы пришли сюда не за правдой. Вы пришли сюда оскорблять людей и обвинять их. У вас нет аргументов. У вас нет правды. Хорошего дня Вам. Не делайте гадости и не будете себя плохо чувствовать!

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#59

Маркус,в кругу лжи долго не простоишь. Всем выплаты сделаны были,и hackernoon является очень порядочным партнером. не говорите чушь. займитесь чем нибудь более полезным чем говорить ложь,вас это не красит.

Marcus, you can’t stand in a circle of lies for long. All payments have been made and hackernoon is a very respectable partner. don’t talk nonsense. do something more useful than telling a lie, it doesn’t paint you.

#60

Okay prove me wrong ! You have created this account two days ago.

Stop spreading utterly idiotic bullsh*t sir. How I did insult here. I have provided each and every proof & they are visible to the naked eyes. Who is baseless here? If here are conscious members, they can judge. Those who ate even the prizes of winners, they should feel the shame.I have already contacted Hackernoon administration with the proof. Remember, you can not stop me exposing the truth. Thank you.

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