Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot? • Hacker News Board

Re: Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot?

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Post by fizx » Sat, Sep 19, 2009, 11:59 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #14

jmtame wrote: post #12

Faster growth than Twitter, and hiring php hacker. I would be knocking these guys' doors down.

> Faster growth than Twitter Sorry ?

Percentage, not absolute, I'd guess.

Re: Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot?

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Post by Raphael » Sun, Sep 20, 2009, 12:16 AM UTC

Hot? Or not? They do not seem to understand RSS feeds. Feeds are not linked to in meta tags nor anywhere on the page. When I inquired by email, the guy responded with a bunch of false URLs. I managed to fix the typos and find the true feeds, but it didn't even use media RSS, so the feeds were useless anyway.

Re: Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot?

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Post by stse » Sun, Sep 20, 2009, 12:53 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #7

I think the reason investors are so excited is that the users are. Experienced investors have seen this pattern before. Occasionally a startup will hit a previously undiscovered spot in the periodic table and just take off. The end result is almost always good, unless the startup commits suicide like Friendster or gets offed like Napster.

This page gives me good feelings about the future of the company, http://dailybooth.com/ijustine/969074 (see the comments)

Re: Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot?

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Post by ashishk » Sun, Sep 20, 2009, 1:07 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #15

ashishk wrote: post #10

Questions for PG/ Jon: How many active users, and founders did DailyBooth have when it applied to YC?

They had (and still have) two founders. According to Compete, they had on the order of 40-50k uniques a month, but that may be US only. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/dailybooth.com/ I just went back and looked at their application to figure out how we realized they were good. Their answers were very clear and concise; they obviously understood their users well. Plus they had both done interesting stuff before.

It'd be really cool to see the responses, only of course, if Jon is comfortable with this.

Re: Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot?

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Post by rooshdi » Sun, Sep 20, 2009, 2:20 AM UTC

rythie wrote: post #11

pg wrote: post #7

I think the reason investors are so excited is that the users are. Experienced investors have seen this pattern before. Occasionally a startup will hit a previously undiscovered spot in the periodic table and just take off. The end result is almost always good, unless the startup commits suicide like Friendster or gets offed like Napster.

I think the key thing they hit was, doing what the 13-18 age group want. A lot of startups don't get that because the founders are 25+.

Yes, its seems that the simple visual freedom of expression in combination with the young fun loving community is attracting lots of users within this age range who are looking for a new outlet to uniquely express themselves with their peers. DailyBooth is definitely on a roll right now and has great potential to be the next Twitter.

Re: Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot?

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Post by timcederman » Sun, Sep 20, 2009, 3:39 AM UTC

I suppose this means Daily Booth isn't looking for any more angel investment at this stage?

Re: Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot?

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Post by ashishk » Sun, Sep 20, 2009, 3:53 AM UTC

I saw somewhere that adult content drives a ton of traffic to tumblr. I know ning had some issues with this.

I'd be curious to see if this happens to dailybooth.

(I'm not completely crazy: http://dailybooth.com/ashh)

Re: Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot?

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Post by brandnewlow » Sun, Sep 20, 2009, 7:23 AM UTC

stse wrote: post #23

pg wrote: post #7

I think the reason investors are so excited is that the users are. Experienced investors have seen this pattern before. Occasionally a startup will hit a previously undiscovered spot in the periodic table and just take off. The end result is almost always good, unless the startup commits suicide like Friendster or gets offed like Napster.

This page gives me good feelings about the future of the company, http://dailybooth.com/ijustine/969074 (see the comments)

My fave: "Pedobear!"

Re: Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot?

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Post by timdorr » Sun, Sep 20, 2009, 8:02 AM UTC

ashishk wrote: post #27

I saw somewhere that adult content drives a ton of traffic to tumblr. I know ning had some issues with this. I'd be curious to see if this happens to dailybooth. (I'm not completely crazy: http://dailybooth.com/ashh )

Do a search for naked Friday. It's already happening on the site now. But the big problem is it's pedobear central. Most of these kids are too young. Sounds like a big problem they better nip in the bud now.

Re: Why is Photo Start-up DailyBooth (YC S09) So Hot?

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Post by rms » Sun, Sep 20, 2009, 8:25 AM UTC

fallentimes wrote: post #16

pg wrote: post #7

I think the reason investors are so excited is that the users are. Experienced investors have seen this pattern before. Occasionally a startup will hit a previously undiscovered spot in the periodic table and just take off. The end result is almost always good, unless the startup commits suicide like Friendster or gets offed like Napster.

It's like a more civilized version of 4chan.

Yeah, there was another post talking about how important context is. The basic functionality of DailyBooth isn't that different, but the communities are almost nothing alike -- except, of course, for the memes that originated on 4chan.