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Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images

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Aeolun wrote: post #116
danso wrote: post #41

Loved reading about their journey on HN. Here's a 5-year-old thread about their costs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11519085 Unfortunately the original link is down (and I could not find an archived version). But here's relevant material from the comments: > $18k is a lot of money to spend each month. Understanding the scale of Unsplash though can help explain the costs. > So at a cost of $18k per month you a…

I don’t mean to rain on their parade, but 30M requests served per month, while sounding really good, translates to 11 requests per second. And maybe 60 requests per second for their 140M API requests. If I were paying $2500 per month for that I’d be a bit sad.

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Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images

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Post by skeeter2020 »

>> ... I’m excited about this acquisition ... because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration

>> This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will continue to operate as a standalone brand and division of Getty Images.

>> Will Unsplash remain an independent brand?

Yes.

HAHA! You can't intentionally write parody this good! Just like every teenager swears they'll be nothing like their parents, every acquired startup swears nothing will change and their independence is preserved; why did you make a massive change to keep everything the same? Do you think Getty wants something for those bags of money they just handed you?

I'm not against acquisitions, on the contrary. I just expect everyone, including the author, to acknowledge that this sort of post is solely to allay their conscience, not that of staff or customers. Funny enough the same hubris is probably what aided their success in the first place...

Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images

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Post by draugadrotten »

growt wrote: post #141
zucker42 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, the text of the Creative Commons license is such that I would think such suits would be unsuccessful in court. Specifically, it has a section about reinstating your rights if you fix a violation of the license after you are notified. Has this ever been litigated? Of course receiving a demand letter is still a nuisance. If this is a problem that you have knowledge about, have you ever considered contacting Creati…

I actually was sued over this exact thing and lost (and paid quite a bit of money). All for a little UI experiment that nobody saw but me, google and (via google image search) these vultures.

So you were copying somebody else's work for free, without even giving them the attribution they ask for as- and THEY are the vultures?

Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images

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Post by postit »

dbrgn wrote: post #71

This reminds me of 500px. I used to be a huge fan of 500px. It was the most beautiful photography site on the internet, designed with attention to every tiny detail. It allowed you to share your photos under a CC license, presented them beautifully and had fantastic curated feeds with photos by fantastic photographers. In 2018 they were acquired by an investor company and partnered exclusively with Getty. As a contri…

Sad to hear. I just deleted all my photos from there and closed my account.

Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images

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Post by hobofan »

subpixel wrote: post #91

What ever happened to their association with OST and micro crypto payments?

AFAIK OST is no more, and the company behind them pivoted to make an online fitness course portal[0]. I think there are some projects that were building things using their OpenST framework and continue to use that.

[0]https://moxie.xyz/

Re: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images

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Post by Boltgolt »

passivate wrote: post #151
dbrgn wrote: post #71

This reminds me of 500px. I used to be a huge fan of 500px. It was the most beautiful photography site on the internet, designed with attention to every tiny detail. It allowed you to share your photos under a CC license, presented them beautifully and had fantastic curated feeds with photos by fantastic photographers. In 2018 they were acquired by an investor company and partnered exclusively with Getty. As a contri…

IMHO, it is hard to run a sustainable business around sharing pictures.

And then there's Instagram, who only did square photos and nothing else for years
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