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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

#21
The ad placement is basically terrible. You should place fewer ads, but put them nearer the content and above the fold.

For example, get them out of the sidebar and make one banner in line with the content between the navigation and the pictures. Basically get rid of the rest.

Also, have you considered selling ads on BuySellAds.com? With that amount of traffic you should make decent money on a CPM or monthly basis.

Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love

#22
post #17

A few comments from an initial glance: - Site could be improved a lot for mobile. If you get a lot of mobile traffic, which wouldn't surprise me, I'll bet it massively underperforms desktop traffic on site engagement and ad revenue. - You need to A/B test your ad locations a lot more. The locations do not look particularly good to me, but then again this does depend a lot on how most people interact with your site (w…

> You probably could compress the big images more to save bandwidth

He's not hosting the images, Twitter is.

Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love

#24
A few random ideas in no particular order

1) Paywall. Even if 1 out of 10,000 people agrees to pay, you will have 600 paying customers per month.

2) Sell analytics / data on what's trending.

3) Offer to make prints of the images.

4) Branching out #3 - not just prints, but fridge magnets, tiles, mugs, whatever.

Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love

#25

I get that people are trying to be helpful, and think that's great. But this blog post was awesome, raw, and captured something that so few of us can really relate to. Dude grinds for 10 years, keeps grinding, doesn't know where to go but will probably keep grinding. "Twicsy, you son of a bitch. You frustrate me so. I love you, but oh how I hate to love you." Shine on, buddy. Best of luck!

Agreed. This was a fun read and I really hope things work out for him.

Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love

#28

I don't use twitter much. But recently there was a large tanker crash near where I live. The truck had exploded, and there were lots of people killed and hurt. I wanted to see some pictures, but one hour after the incident the story was not (yet) on the TV news. So I turned to twitter, and using the standard twitter search, I found a few ransoms photos of the incident. What I needed was a better way to search twitter…

Time & Geographically based searches would be a moneymaker, no doubt about it. Could be something that Twitter would buy up themselves too

Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love

#30

I don't use twitter much. But recently there was a large tanker crash near where I live. The truck had exploded, and there were lots of people killed and hurt. I wanted to see some pictures, but one hour after the incident the story was not (yet) on the TV news. So I turned to twitter, and using the standard twitter search, I found a few ransoms photos of the incident. What I needed was a better way to search twitter…

I actually do this on Instagram. It's not so effective for breaking news stories but it can be fun at music festivals and other entertainment type events.
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