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My theory - Reddit is kept alive by YC and YC-affiliates to keep the "hype" engine around their investments alive. In other words "remember, this is from the smart people that invested in the Frontpage of the Internet™!"
Since when is being associated with Reddit a huge signal of success, esp. compared to other sucessful startups?
Hi, I'm the founder of Imzy. It's a hard day but I want to make myself available, especially to entrepreneurs who may have questions. This last 2 years has been fun, and hard and I've learned a lot. You can reply here or email me at dan@imzy.com I also have an amazing staff of developers, community minded folks, product people, executives, who are looking for work. Many of them mare open to moving (we are in Salt Lak…
Have you considered contacting Internet Archive - or specifically, "Archive Team" - and coordinating with them to package up and deliver an archive of the public data that was produced on your platform ?
I wish there was a simple Reddit clone that focused on positivity, like Imzy, but it seems that all of these things are way too expensive.
I mean cmon, eight million dollars (in the last round alone) wasn't enough to keep a link sharing site alive? How is that possible? What on earth were they spending that money on?
I checked out Imzy a couple of weeks ago: 1. Barrier to entry was a login (I had previously gone here and left when it first started, and didn't sign in. I eventually created an account just to check it out.) 2. Interface was confusing 3. Exploration felt difficult 4. It wasn't immediately obvious why I was there 5. Not enough juice/content to bring me back tl;dr: Social networks + open domain communities are hard.
I disagree that it's hard, but rather that Imzy was doing a very poor job. Look at Twitter. It wasn't a revolutionary UX masterpiece in the beginning, it was useful . Imzy was never useful. It's not useful to talk to a bunch of people who need censorship to feel comfortable talking to other humans. I'd argue it's the least rewarding group of people to have a conversation with in the first place. 1) I agree that more…
That would be the most useful outcome of all of this: what tools they used, what drove their decisions, and why that control loop failed.
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Reddit took off within months of its launch. ~30 days to download data is pretty standard.
Reddit spammed fake comments for months in order to gain traction... https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-reddit-got-hu... (I'm not proposing Vice as a great source, but it's the first thing that came up on google.)
I wouldn't attribute their success to fake accounts, although the fake accounts were probably necessary to seed the community. Rather, they took off once they added comments (Dec 05, IIRC). It's the same story as Whatsapp (messaging), YouTube (related videos), and AirBnB (pro photos): there was one feature that they really needed for product/market fit, and once they added it, people started using the product on their own.
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What would you have done differently?
TL;DR - we over built. We were too close to the problem from our experiences at reddit and built WAY too much stuff that only really matters if you are operating at scale. If we had done better with this, we could have gone to market quicker and probably done a better job finding product/market fit. There's of course more, but this is the biggest thing.
I wish the founders well, but I feel like people nowadays give up too early. And this is one of the most extreme examples of that. Most community sites take a while to grow and you really never know what will happen. Even Reddit was sort of a failure vs. Digg and they sold it off to conde nast. It was only later AFTER the sale when Digg messed up on their own and Reddit enjoyed success as a side effect. You really sh…
I have never seen a successful community site that raised that much money before getting traction. What are some successful community sites?
So there's an example of site, without much money, building off their community. It's filled with a lot of hate, racism and extremism.
I still like browsing it, just to see the opinions, try to understand where others are coming from and expose myself to viewpoints I disagree with.
There is some good content and some viewpoints I agree with, but I wish more reasonable people on there weren't so drown out. I think moderate people do try, but after barrages of downvotes, they give up (new accounts can't downvote either; you have to build 100 comment points -- which keeps that group think going).
Hi, I'm the founder of Imzy. It's a hard day but I want to make myself available, especially to entrepreneurs who may have questions. This last 2 years has been fun, and hard and I've learned a lot. You can reply here or email me at dan@imzy.com I also have an amazing staff of developers, community minded folks, product people, executives, who are looking for work. Many of them mare open to moving (we are in Salt Lak…
Do you plan on open sourcing any part of the site?