Ask HN: Please assist me in being 'ramen profitable' with direct-sell ad space

'Ramen profitable' is 'a startup makes just enough to pay the founders' living expenses' ( http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html ). Since I am an individual founder and my overhead is just $1500/month, I can be ramen profitable rather easily.

My site, http://ycuniverse.com, gets several hundred "uniques" a day. That's not much, but it's solid traffic by founders and people looking to do business with start-ups. And that's a key demographic if you are also a founder or looking to do business with start-ups.

If I did AdWords, which I've already tried, I would effectively be giving Google what seems like 99 cents of every advertising dollar. So I'd like to test the idea of selling flat-rate direct-sell ad space. If anybody is interested in buying flat-rate ad space on my site and testing my attempt to be ramen profitable this way, pelase don't hesitate to contact me.