If making your ego grow seems not enough for you when being liked by your viewers when visiting your site, then, probably Flattr could be a better solution for you.

Flattr is a site that allows you to get a little amount of money each time a viewer in your website chooses to like a content in it. It basically works like the Facebook “like” button (just like the one you can see at the end of this post and you will click even if you don’t like this article ).

When Flattr was born it was restricted only to users  with invitation. Now it is open to all the public. The only inconvenient is you will have to pay a minimum monthly fee of  2 euros. That same fee is the one you will use to reward those sites you like. This means, that the system counts the total times you “liked something” during the month and splits the fee you paid among those things you “liked”.  And this is the same way you will be getting money from your Flattr viewers each time they like something in your site.

The system still has to mature to see if it does work and gets enough number of users to become popular, and also profitable for those authors that will include Flattr in their sites. Nevertheless, sounds like a great start-up idea.