Michael Frind’s Future Trophy Wife : Bytchin

Michael Frind’s Future Trophy Wife

Posted on Mar 13th, 2009 at 3:43 pm by Megan Bodman in Entertainment, Geek Bling, Misc Geek Stuff

It’s Friday afternoon, around 4:15. The longest hour of the week is here. Plus I took a late lunch, and Chili’s is sitting so heavy in me I can feel the food-induced coma coming on even as I type. I’m pretty much done working for the day, just waiting for my boss to approve my work and add his little tweaks. So what do I do? I Google “my job blows”. What can I say, I’m a classy broad. But the best part? 5,630,000 results come up. I’m not alone in my Bytchin!!!

See how many people agree with me?

I want to be Markus Frind. You have no idea who that is, right? Exactly! But he’s worth MILLIONS… and he works about an hour a day. I’m doubting he ever looks at the clock at 4:03 on a Friday afternoon and dreams of weekend glory.

Markus Frind is the designer of PlentyOfFish.com, the free online dating website that has spread like wildfire in the past year. On AdSense alone, Frind pulls in $10,000 a day. Yes, a day. That’s $300,000 a month or $3,650,000 a year. Off Google’s Adsense!?! I make about 50 cents a day on AdSense. That’s $15 a month or $182.50 a year. I can make crappy websites too! Why aren’t I in the super rich club? Grrr…

What gets me is that Plenty of Fish is not an incredibly fancy or elaborate website. The coding is incredibly simple. When you see a user’s picture before clicking on their profile, their face is either stretched like a fun house mirror or teeny tiny. There’s no deep, detailed, therapist written user compatibility profile. You can hook up with anyone, anywhere. Frind has a fondness for bold and CAPS LOCK as he expresses in anything longer than a sentence. The web page looks like a C + project in a freshman web design class. And users are eating it up. Ranked by HitWise as being in the top 100 websites, apparently users just don’t care what their page looks like, as long as it is functional and can get the point across.

So now I’m thinking, why don’t I come up with a dinky little website. Spend absolutely no money on it. And allow my fairy Internet godmother come and take this Cinderella to the billion dollar ball. So, to everyone of you 5,630,000 people with a website talking about how much your job blows, let me know your next great idea. I promise to build the cruddiest website I can and we can sit back and watch the fortune roll in.

The time is 4:42. Almost there…. so close…..

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