My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
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Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#2You should make it look better, imo.
Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#3You should make it look better, imo.
How would that solve the issue of it not making money?
Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#4Why does he say "really successful" in the title, if it doesn't even break even?
EDIT: Must be the traffic, but these days that's not (that) impressive if there's no revenue model around it. That said, I'd love 6 million users/month.
EDIT 2: downvotes? I guess funding = success still around here, huh?
Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#5You should make it look better, imo.
That's not going to help his revenue problem, probably. The only thing I can think of is if he--in addition to making it look appealing--somehow places targeted ads based on user queries, in the midst of their search results. This is essentially the "killer" strategy a lot of companies like FB and Twitter have started using. Make ads a seamless part of the scenery. Not as annoying sidebar shit that no one ever looks at.
Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#6Why does he say "really successful" in the title, if it doesn't even break even? EDIT: Must be the traffic, but these days that's not (that) impressive if there's no revenue model around it. That said, I'd love 6 million users/month. EDIT 2: downvotes? I guess funding = success still around here, huh?
I'd hate to have 6 million visitors a month if they're viewing pictures (high bandwidth) and I'm not actually making any money from them.
Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#7Why does he say "really successful" in the title, if it doesn't even break even? EDIT: Must be the traffic, but these days that's not (that) impressive if there's no revenue model around it. That said, I'd love 6 million users/month. EDIT 2: downvotes? I guess funding = success still around here, huh?
The ten years included several startups. And while it appears all eventually failed or were put in the back-burner, he did raise $2 million in angel funding along the way. So, at least in regards to keeping himself housed and fed, I guess it was successful.
Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#8Sharing some of the analytics behind how you think people use the site would probably make for a much more interesting discussion around monetization.
EG - I can't figure out how or why 6m uniques would show up here, or what they're doing.
And that's not an insult, I am curious - are they looking for discovery / trends? Are they looking to see all the latest pics of a user? etc?
Those are dramatically different user segments / values.
You've got a bit of a 31-flavors UX where I can do a lot, but as a result wonder if you could massively pare this down, improve focus, and discover monetization through understanding what people actually use it for.
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#9No ads if you sign in with twitter? Maybe that's the problem, since it's a search engine specifically for twitter...
I'd be curious to see some information regarding the number of ad impressions/clicks too. The only ad on the homepage is way at the bottom (I think).
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#10I don't understand if it has 6 million unique visitors a month, how can he not monetize this? This seems to be more about how the revenue via advertising has dried up. Can barely pay for the servers !?