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Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Super_Jambo wrote: post #47
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 about this although it's the first I've heard of Imzy. Bit curious if there was any weighting algorithm in the voting?

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Post by antonber »

I run an online community. Building a safe space is extremely difficult and full of grey area, online or offline.

There's a fine line between the freedom to express yourself and offending someone else. As a community moderator, choosing what is and isn't offensive is by definition subjective. It's an impossible task for a global, multi-cultural community. You end up with a vanilla message board where most interesting thought/debate is stifled. Reminds me of the campus "safe space" debate.

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Post by wtvanhest »

kickme444 wrote: post #27
wehadfun wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why did you shut it down?

We were unable to find growth in any cohort.

Sorry to hear about your experience. I had the pain of shutting down my business a few years ago. It completely sucks, but it is also a relief.

Did you focus on any cohort or did you just experiment with lots of cohorts hoping one would take off? If you did focus, what if anything did you learn?

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Post by jboogie77 »

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…

Do you plan on open sourcing any part of the site?

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Post by [deleted] »

munificent wrote: post #25
acjohnson55 wrote: post #18

It seems perverse that I only learn about a lot of products when news of their shutdown hits HN. I'm not exactly sure I'm sure what Imzy is for, but it seems in some ways similar to a concept I had for online communities built around discussion of content. Might have been right up my alley.

> I'm not exactly sure I'm sure what Imzy is for If I recall, it got started right around the time there was a lot of shenanigans going on at Reddit around corporate drama, censorship, and the nastier subreddits. Imzy and Voat popped up to try to offer an alternative. (My impression is that Imzy was aiming for less awfulness and Voat aims for less censorship.)

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Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by exelius »

TylerE wrote: post #41
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Wait, what? They raised a $8M Series A less than a year ago! https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/26/imzy-raises-8-million-seri... That was also the time it was opened to the public. This shutdown appears to be a strong counterpoint against Reddit alternatives becoming an inherently successful business prospect.

Reddit itself is not a successful business project.

It is if your goal is to control (or at least influence) the Internet zeitgeist without appearing to...

Re: Imzy is shutting down

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Post by nebabyte »

DanBC wrote: post #38

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 i…

4) login required. Seeded content does nothing to attract new users when behind a wall. Hell, I had an account and the content still felt a degree removed from when I wanted it. Even a static cached digest would at least attract new users.

Agree on it being a shame though. Imzy was founded by a contingent of "the good admins" who've left reddit, as far as I can tell.

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