** Update (1/1/17): Glomp Attack is no longer operating.

I was brainstorming small business ideas when I stumbled on GoatAttack.com. It’s a website where you can pay 79 cents to have pictures of goats text messaged to your friends. It’s a simple site that apparently made several thousand in revenue. Ok sign me up.

I partnered with Tommy and soon GlompAttack.com was born.

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For 79 cents you can send your friends pictures of hugs! Actually it’s better than pictures because they are gifs! The website is a rails app running on heroku. Message sending is powered by Twilio and payments are processed by Braintree.

Unfortunately, it’s not that funny, and it hasn’t paid for itself (yet). To quote some guy on r/shutupandtakemymoney: “This is so fucking stupid. Good luck catching some idiots with this service.”

For the record it wasn’t a total flop. We sent it to our Moms and they liked it.