Disqus is quite interesting, and amazingly simple to use. For that alone it is good to know that they are doing well. On a unrelated note: since when half a million qualified as a "VC" round of funding?
When it comes from a VC. :)
Disqus Gets VC Funding, Releases v2 and Kicks Competitions' Ass.
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Re: Disqus Gets VC Funding, Releases v2 and Kicks Competitions' Ass.
#12Disqus is quite interesting, and amazingly simple to use. For that alone it is good to know that they are doing well. On a unrelated note: since when half a million qualified as a "VC" round of funding?
When it comes from a VC. :)
Right you are. ;)
It just one more example to show how VC is turning more and more of a seller market.
Now, the bigger question: at what valuation?
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#13make the title neutral. this is bias for disqus. your skewing the comments unfairly.
thank you, i know i'm right, now you voters are too
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#14What happens if blog tools (Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, etc) include threaded comments in their next release?
Profit!
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#16curious, what are the potential monetization strategies? they only occupy below the fold or secondary jump pages so they're rarely a destination site. build the business intelligence site that om malik wants? monetize the landing pages from google traffic? but then publishers will get pissed that they're stealing the googlejuice. involve more functionality a la identity management? morph into mini-reddits or mini-blo…
I had the same question as well. A couple of ideas: 1. No monetization, just eyeballs until an acquisition. 2. Freemium model: paying customers (bloggers) get access to more useful services (eg: better spam protection, user tracking, demographics on commentators, better threading) 3. An attempt to make the conversation the destination. Consider a system where the comments become more interesting than the original pos…
ads are not a business model, they are just popular because they are new
mak your users pay, that is the only way you will keep getting money
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had the same question as well. A couple of ideas: 1. No monetization, just eyeballs until an acquisition. 2. Freemium model: paying customers (bloggers) get access to more useful services (eg: better spam protection, user tracking, demographics on commentators, better threading) 3. An attempt to make the conversation the destination. Consider a system where the comments become more interesting than the original pos…
ads are not a business model, they are just popular because they are new mak your users pay, that is the only way you will keep getting money
Yeah, Google is going to stop making money any day now.
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#18I remember reading a discussion on Hacker News where danielha discussed creating such a service a few months before he created it as part of YC. Am I right?
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#19curious, what are the potential monetization strategies? they only occupy below the fold or secondary jump pages so they're rarely a destination site. build the business intelligence site that om malik wants? monetize the landing pages from google traffic? but then publishers will get pissed that they're stealing the googlejuice. involve more functionality a la identity management? morph into mini-reddits or mini-blo…
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Re: Disqus Gets VC Funding, Releases v2 and Kicks Competitions' Ass.
#20curious, what are the potential monetization strategies? they only occupy below the fold or secondary jump pages so they're rarely a destination site. build the business intelligence site that om malik wants? monetize the landing pages from google traffic? but then publishers will get pissed that they're stealing the googlejuice. involve more functionality a la identity management? morph into mini-reddits or mini-blo…
Disqus is one of those startups that shouldn't even think about monetizing. They're not a bootstrap and slowly build over time company, they're in a full on land grab.
That said, it's a tough question as to how they could/should monetize. Freemium seems ok, but perhaps not great. I'm not sure what, but I feel like there must be something better.