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Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by greglindahl »

arkitaip wrote: post #15

"The site will go dark on June 23rd." (1) Two years is too little time to create a Reddit alternative (2) shutting it down in less than 30 days is really bad.

Imzy is offering data export, which is unusually good for a shutdown of such an early-stage startup.

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Post by emperorcezar »

arkitaip wrote: post #15

"The site will go dark on June 23rd." (1) Two years is too little time to create a Reddit alternative (2) shutting it down in less than 30 days is really bad.

Agreed about two years. I feel they jumped the gun to make it into a business when it was just a site.

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Post by alexquez »

kickme444 wrote: post #3

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…

Sorry to hear you're shutting down. I know it's a terrible experience, but thank you for being open.

Can you explain a bit about how you tried to monetize the site? What did you try? What worked and what didn't?

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Post by kickme444 »

alexquez wrote: post #33
kickme444 wrote: post #3

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…

Sorry to hear you're shutting down. I know it's a terrible experience, but thank you for being open. Can you explain a bit about how you tried to monetize the site? What did you try? What worked and what didn't?

TBH we never got to the point of monetization.

Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by DanBC »

Imzy was a nice place to be.

Some of the problems I had:

1) The interface was confusing. Making posts was confusing.

2) Users were allowed to create communities, and they did. There were a gajillion of very tiny communities. This fragments the userbase and makes each tiny community seem dead.

3) Not enough users. Seriously, seeding the community with posts is a good thing. It sets tone and gives people something to interact with. If you're a startup in this space you need to hire a few people on minimum wage and get them to spend 9 hours a day making posts on different accounts.

It's a shame to see it go.

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