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You know what gets me though? Patreon and YouTube. Granted you have to work your ass off to get to, say, $1000\u002Fmonth - based on channels I watch I'd say you…",{"comments":178,"answered":44,"key":179},7,[180,183,186],{"id":181,"text":182},"15989126","You are right, people could be using PropertyWebBuilder to earn good money without me knowing. I think I must have communicated wrongly because most comments seem to suggest that…",{"id":184,"text":185},"15988421","Someone just put that up now to mess with me. That's how nice people are these days. I'll clean out the db and re-seed in a minute.",{"id":187,"text":188},"15988516","No you don't need push rights to change the content. This is a demo site and the credentials are available on the github repo. The ideas is to let people play with it. 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