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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…
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.
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.
yet another startup I only hear about when they are shutting down.
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 shouldn't be building a community site if you're so impatient to give up so early. I mean the site opened to public in October 26 of 2016, that's exactly 7 months in existence. It's probably because they raised so much money, which is why you should never raise too much money when you're trying to build a community site. I have never seen a successful community site that raised that much money before getting traction.
I spent 5 minutes on the site, and I still have no clue what it is... I would like to know, since it's interesting to understand what people have tried and gave up on.
It was like reddit with a shinier but harder to use UI, and less racists.
give it time. reddit's not done shittying up their UI - hell, they're just getting started :)
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…
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…
What would you have done differently?
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.
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.
this is an hard thing to enter into. specifically, it scores just 3 on the 5 startup needs, specifically:
- requires content to attract user
- requires users to attract users
yes this is something that exists mostly in my mind, but works most of the time.