Kudos on the launch. Looks really great. :)
Is there anyone else doing this? Just curious.
The Story of My Startup.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good question. I have a few ideas that I'm going to be pursuing. - Setup a deal with flipclips.com (or someone similar) and let people purchase a branded flickbook of a period of their lives. - Maybe potential for some kind of picwing.com affiliate deal / application. - Some kind of "pro" account with more features (more picture widget output options etc). - Display advertising (yeah, know). They're a few ideas I'm t…
The pro account is the best idea. Stay away from advertising, IMO, it looks cheap and turns people off. Personally I absolutely hate advertising and won't use any site with it. And I doubt much would come from the book idea/affiliations. I would take it nice and slow. Wait until you have some serious users who have put a lot of time into the app. Obviously you and your friends have to catalyse that, looks like you al…
> Stay away from advertising, IMO, it looks cheap and turns people off. Personally I absolutely hate advertising and won't use any site with it.
I don't like ads either, but we (who actually care enough to e.g. install ad block+) are a minority.
You need money. Advertisement might help and it will only repulse a relatively small portion of the population.
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#13Congrats on the launch. Most entrepreneurs know the feeling of missing deadlines badly ;)
It's such a good concept, honestly, I would pay for a private one for my friends and family. The site didn't make it clear if privacy was possible.
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#14I think this is a very promising idea.
I think the idea of an embeddable widget that flips through all your photos (like the videos you describe that inspired the site) would be really cool. I think if a widget like this is done right you could get some good viral growth from MySpace.
I'd think about capitalizing as much as possible on the timelapse concept and stray away from being just another photo sharing site. Right now, users profiles are just a feed of images, which doesn't seem that compelling..
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#15One little issue I found. On the user pages if you click 'daily booth' you get sent to /dashboard (even though I have not created an account or logged in): http://ul.mikeyur.com/public/sk/Fullscreen-20090212-232617.p...
And when you get sent to /dashboard while not logged in you get a little error: http://ul.mikeyur.com/public/sk/Minefield-20090212-232757.pn...
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#16Awesome story, well done, and great execution. Site looks good. Don't listen to all the naysayers about monetization. It is important (the most important thing), but if you are living/breathing/eating your business, you will come up with proper revenue channels. I'm sure of it. Good luck.
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#17This is awesome. It's great to hear a story that isn't just "we did this, and bam, we launched and either a) lost all our money or b) we made $200m in the first day" :)
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#18Where's the business model?
Good question. I have a few ideas that I'm going to be pursuing. - Setup a deal with flipclips.com (or someone similar) and let people purchase a branded flickbook of a period of their lives. - Maybe potential for some kind of picwing.com affiliate deal / application. - Some kind of "pro" account with more features (more picture widget output options etc). - Display advertising (yeah, know). They're a few ideas I'm t…
In a year's time, you could make an absolute killing by selling a $49-$99 DVD service to users who actually kept taking photos. Their photos, turned into a DVD movie, in a nice case with their name on it, etc. (You could outsource this and make a killing on the difference.)
People will buy these not just for their own safekeeping, but for grandmas, to keep for future generations, and so forth.
Actually, mentioning such a product could even get slightly less netheady people to even use your service. You want the comfortably-off soccer moms, grandparents, and so forth, using this product. Can you imagine how awesome it'd be to have had a DVD of a year or two of your grandpa? Big selling factor in here.
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#19whoa, it's the guy that made grabup -- love that application (amusingly I emailed them a few months ago asking to advertise (paid) on their site -- never got a reply)
great story, will be sure to track his blog and progress. Great to see awesome projects from fellow brits :)
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good question. I have a few ideas that I'm going to be pursuing. - Setup a deal with flipclips.com (or someone similar) and let people purchase a branded flickbook of a period of their lives. - Maybe potential for some kind of picwing.com affiliate deal / application. - Some kind of "pro" account with more features (more picture widget output options etc). - Display advertising (yeah, know). They're a few ideas I'm t…
The pro account is the best idea. Stay away from advertising, IMO, it looks cheap and turns people off. Personally I absolutely hate advertising and won't use any site with it. And I doubt much would come from the book idea/affiliations. I would take it nice and slow. Wait until you have some serious users who have put a lot of time into the app. Obviously you and your friends have to catalyse that, looks like you al…
> hate advertising and won't use any site with it.
Wow, that excludes a pretty large portion of the internet. No Google, no Yahoo, no online newspapers, not many 'blogs'...