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Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

stavros wrote: post #315
yesenadam wrote: post #313

I thought the comments to this were well above average on the entertaining scale. Pretty embarrassing, though, that probably the majority of comments seemed to take it seriously, even reprimanding the creator for not being serious enough, not taking his Business seriously enough. It seems to create dissonance among many that such a thing even exists. People seem deeply confused it's not full speed ahead, like every o…

This is how I feel too, it was surprising (and educational) to see some commenters having trouble accepting that someone might have just made a thing for fun. I think it's the fact that you can buy it that trips them up. I imagine Cards Against Humanity got a lot of the same comments.

This site is a brilliant joke because it plays to so many of the tropes that HN commenters claim to want: Paid service, no ads, cheap prices, CLI interface, Rust for safety, and a company attitude that clearly caters to the programmers who work on the site instead of the customer.

It’s like the culmination of everything HN commenters say they want out of a software company, but those who don’t get the joke absolutely hate it.

People are even complaining about the trivial $1/month or $5/year price point as being too expensive. That’s a great reminder that nearly every time someone claims “I would pay for an alternative service that isn’t ad-supported” is not actually true 95% of the time. People love free services too much.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by gilrain »

nikolay wrote: post #306
stavros wrote: post #302

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> Do you want me to provide you with the email trail? I remember paying for the account. The question is whether it was a paid account at the time of the deletion . Paying for a year in 2010 obviously still makes the account unpaid in 2014. > Did you warn customers that their data (maybe a couple of megabytes) would be deleted? Yes, you get an email that this will happen. > Did you offer me "upgrade to keep your data…

Here's the email with the innocent subject of "historious hasn't seen you in a while!": Hello! We noticed that you haven't logged on historious in a while. Is there anything we can do to help? Please don't hesitate to reply to this email with anything you may need. To refresh your memory, historious is a new kind of bookmarking service which creates your very own, personalised search engine of things you like. Just a…

I’m sure we’re all very sorry that you didn’t read an email which, in retrospect, was important. It was careless of you, but we’re all careless sometimes.

I doubt stavros has the ability to force you to read your emails, though. Given that, it’s possible they aren’t at fault for your oversight.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by gilrain »

awsthro00945 wrote: post #228
normalocity wrote: post #220

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I see humor in the entire project, and am okay with this. Given Stavros' clear intent to be funny and make it abundantly clear what _isn't_ being promised, it's pretty great. I mean c'mon - have a little fun. At any rate it's classic absurdist marketing, and I approve. Besides, I don't read the TOS of most other services. Why would I start now?

Oh I see the humor in it and I too am entertained, but I think it's a strange attitude to take in a paid product. This seems like more the territory of "optional donations accepted". Just think, if this were a larger company doing this, they would be absolutely crucified for deceiving customers by hiding critical info in tiny text or TOSes that nobody reads. And FWIW, I haven't actually tried paying yet, but if IMGZ…

> Just think, if this were a larger company doing this

Just think, they said wistfully, how angry we could be if things weren’t such as they are. What a glorious, outraged life we could be leading.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by [deleted] »

stavros wrote: post #252
corobo wrote: post #197

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Might be worth looking at pulling with a Worker if that's ever an issue. They don't care if you do it that way :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 E: lol you were in that thread, you probably know about it

I was but I'd forgotten, thanks for reminding me! Also, Cloudflare now have a very nice image resizing product which I'd probably use if IMGZ didn't need to resize ten images per year. I'm not sure they're ready for my kind of volume yet.

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Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by gilrain »

mrmuagi wrote: post #216
awsthro00945 wrote: post #210

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Well good news for you, he pretty much explicitly states all of that in IMGZ's terms of service! https://imgz.org/help/terms/ >This is my project, and I make no promises at all, even though you're paying. I'm not even promising I'll host your images. I don't believe in stealing your money or compromising your privacy, but even those aren't promises either.

TBH, I would avoid this service on the grounds it seems to be run by one person (to what extent its just clever self promotion hinges on charitable interpretation) -- this blurb whilst humorous is on line with the Discord cutesy error messages. It really hammers home this is not in the big leagues (or the minor leagues rather) and if you are using this service, you should be fine with that. However charging customers…

> It really hammers home this is not in the big leagues

“This piece of writing, saying A, indicates that the author really does mean A” is a very boring observation.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ryan-allen wrote: post #272
stavros wrote: post #247

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Let me check... TWO more images were added today! At this rate, I'm going to need to buy a whole datacenter by next week. https://imgz.org/blog/2020/12/23/haha-suckers/

I like you (and I like storing images in the database). EDIT: I uploaded an image into your database https://imgz.org/i3joC5jC/

Majestic Taco.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by gilrain »

mrmuagi wrote: post #258
stavros wrote: post #223

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Oh no no no, that won't do. Please send your SLA and NDA for me to sign, we can't be spending $12 willy-nilly! We could have almost bought one movie ticket to Cats for that money!

Look, kudos for having a great sense of humour, but nobody is talking about a SLA or NDA, I was talking about the fact it's almost a guarantee that your service will cause an inordinate amount of pressure on you and that's quite obvious. Though I must congratulate you for making trawling through hckrnews a source of work as evidenced by the corrupt file upload that was brought to your attention.

Having a hard time getting your “business advice for people who aren’t trying to run a business” consultancy off the ground?

Giving the advice away for free is a good start, but have you tried targeting people who want advice?

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by saimiam »

Corrado wrote: post #324
saimiam wrote: post #318

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Love it! Maybe show a small percentage of the photos picked at random in the sealed account to bidders...

You could also convert them to a lower resolution, just to keep the suspense alive.

"Is that just a bent knee or am I looking at something far more titillating?"
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