You should read this:
https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli...
Disclaimer: I wrote it
Show HN: A new image sharing service
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Re: Show HN: A new image sharing service
#12Looks extremely similar to Imgur, including the colors and modals. What would you say separates it from Imgur? Why did it takes a year to develop?
Re: Show HN: A new image sharing service
#13A new image sharing service Itsosticky is a brand new image sharing service with some ambition, just launched after a year of development. More info is available here https://itsosticky.com/about There are several things that make this different to other image sharing services. Itsosticky will quickly and automatically rescale images that are above a certain size threshold, with auto-orientation of JPEGs uploaded fro…
How do you plan on enforcing the no-NSFW policy? That seems close to impossible pre-monetization unless you spent most of that year training a neural network.
Could always use https://www.projectoxford.ai or something like it. I know Google just came out with an API for generating text descriptions of images. Perhaps if scanned images passed through this api were tagged with certain words, the images could be marked for moderation and not shown until approved.
Re: Show HN: A new image sharing service
#14Looks extremely similar to Imgur, including the colors and modals. What would you say separates it from Imgur? Why did it takes a year to develop?
> What would you say separates it from Imgur?
It's not blocked by my company firewall yet, so that's nice.
Re: Show HN: A new image sharing service
#15Looks extremely similar to Imgur, including the colors and modals. What would you say separates it from Imgur? Why did it takes a year to develop?
> Why did it [take] a year to develop?
I believe this is your answer (from the About page):
> Almost every piece of code is ad hoc, built from the ground up to be as lightweight and efficient as possible.
My opinion is they most likely built many things which were already available in the open-source world.
Re: Show HN: A new image sharing service
#16Looks extremely similar to Imgur, including the colors and modals. What would you say separates it from Imgur? Why did it takes a year to develop?
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Re: Show HN: A new image sharing service
#17Re: Show HN: A new image sharing service
#18A new image sharing service Itsosticky is a brand new image sharing service with some ambition, just launched after a year of development. More info is available here https://itsosticky.com/about There are several things that make this different to other image sharing services. Itsosticky will quickly and automatically rescale images that are above a certain size threshold, with auto-orientation of JPEGs uploaded fro…
A full year of development?
Common engineering fallacy: "I could have done that in 2 months". Why not two weeks? Or "two days using frameworks x and y"?
I don't know anything about the author but if he worked on this nights and weekends for a full year it seems about right to me (and great job)!
Though, maybe I'm not 10x enough to know better. :-)
Re: Show HN: A new image sharing service
#19You should read this: https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli... Disclaimer: I wrote it
Mind if I ask the name of your image hosting service?
Re: Show HN: A new image sharing service
#20You should read this: https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli... Disclaimer: I wrote it
Mind if I ask the name of your image hosting service?
It's mentioned in the post: https://sr.ht/