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Does revenue from affiliate book sales actually cover your costs?
Not in the slightest. We added that feature when we thought Lanyrd would be a side-project that we'd use to keep us amused while we were travelling on honeymoon. We've since raised a large seed round which is covering our costs for the moment!
I love Lanyrd. You have gone and built something that is better than what came before you. I conceived a startup in in 2006 called Confabb.com that strove to be what Lanyrd has become. Great work!
I have a lot of respect for the people at Lanyrd for one simple reason - I was going to signup for them but realised that they only supported Twitter authentication in the early days. They were asking for permission to do all kinds of things to my stream, which as I understood it later to be the only option at the time. I tweeted about it, they replied and said "sorry about that" then a few months went by. Out of the…
Thanks very much. That issue was a pretty tough one for us - we ended up investing quite a bit of work in fixing it so we could ask for read-only permissions when people first sign in and then ask them to upgrade to write permissions only if they attempted to do something that required them (like clicking "follow" on another user): http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/twitter-read-only/ It was worth fixing though - only a sma…
I'm really surprised developers at Twitter and Facebook haven't made read-only permissions the default.