"Hype.la Is...

a service for artists, musicians, open source developers, poets, writers, anyone who makes something and wants to promote it.

You trade small promotional blurbs of your artwork, music, open source software, etc. with other like-minded artists.

The service is free to use by anyone, and you own your ads.

Ad Networks are the used car lots of the internet.

Your ads show exactly where people put them rather than blasted at random on the interwebs in ways you'll never understand.

We have one cookie and don't use it to track you or your friends. The software that runs Hype.la is open source. We will never sell your data to another company. That's just low class.

The people in your social network are the best promoters of your work.

You could even say it's "Webrings 2.0" if you remember those.