IMGZ – Paid image sharing • Hacker News Board

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by threatofrain » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:36 PM UTC

carabiner wrote: post #60

CosmicShadow wrote: post #9

Strike while the iron is hot I guess, but not sure why you you are being such an ass in your copy, it's kind of a turn off, even if it is super cheap. Maybe it's a trend where if something is super cheap people tend to write in that style, but it kind of erodes trust, unless this is supposed to be a joke site, but the fact that I don't know really hurts your chance to actually get users to want to give you their emai…

The "no bullshit" is a low key HN meme: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=no+bullshit+guide

The top hits on this query is Ivan Savov's pedagogical branding sparsely spread across the years. The rest are like 0-comment posts.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by allenu » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:37 PM UTC

nevir wrote: post #48

civilized wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did anybody else read the copy, then read this comment, then read the copy again and go "what planet is this guy from?" How did "being such an ass" get defined down to something this mild? People are so easily offended these days. You can sign up for any image hosting website you want. I mean, you wouldn't go to Chipotle and rant at them for three paragraphs about how their mild salsa is way too spicy for you.

TBH, I find the following from that site as "being a bit of an ass": > You are a guest here. You can use IMGZ, and it'll always be great, because I'm great. I've even open-sourced it. (in particular, due to the "because I'm great.") > It's super cheap. Like, $5/yr. And that includes bandwidth. There's even a free trial because I'm nice. (same theme: "because I'm nice") --- past that, the honest talk is nice to see, I…

Yeah, I was confused by the copy. I also thought it wasn't a real service.

On the "Money" page (with title "Buy my shit"):

> That's because we want to avoid having to sell photos of your vagina to shady Russian oligarchs to pay for our servers and cocaine.

I'm not offended by the language. It just doesn't give me a sense that this is a serious business.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by Lammy » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:37 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #50

Lammy wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A "privacy" paragraph would be appreciated on the Terms page: https://imgz.org/help/terms/ Personally I would want to know if my uploads were going through some scanning engine from one of the tier-1 Internet gatekeepers who I would have to trust to not keep/forward a copy.

Hm, the site uses CloudFlare (and that's about it), is that what you mean?

Yes :)

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by mattl » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:38 PM UTC

detritus wrote: post #76

I'm on my second year subscription, even if the owner's a total cunt who actually responds to justifiable emails.

Owner sounds a bit full of themselves for sure. Any horror stories?

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by holler » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:38 PM UTC

> With this in mind, we found the perfect balance of the "early startup employee" compensation package: 50% stock, 50% equity, 0% salary[0].

I'm IN! Congrats :D

0: https://imgz.org/blog/

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:38 PM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #83

stavros wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hm, the site uses CloudFlare (and that's about it), is that what you mean?

Yes :)

I can mention that on the privacy page, yep!

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by edoceo » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:38 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #12

CosmicShadow wrote: post #9

Strike while the iron is hot I guess, but not sure why you you are being such an ass in your copy, it's kind of a turn off, even if it is super cheap. Maybe it's a trend where if something is super cheap people tend to write in that style, but it kind of erodes trust, unless this is supposed to be a joke site, but the fact that I don't know really hurts your chance to actually get users to want to give you their emai…

Ah, see, you're assuming the site is not serious and I didn't actually make this because I needed it and it'll be a hassle if other people use it so they need to give me money to offset the hassle.

It's not "free" money. They pay for the service. It's just regular money.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by detritus » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:38 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #73

Those are some pretty terrible prices. You can share images (or anything else) publicly from Dropbox/Box/GDrive/OneDrive for a lot cheaper. Or just cut out the middleman and set up a S3 bucket for a few cents.

This is like $12 a year.

I also have a dropbox account, which I hate. I also have various web storage accounts.

For sharing silly daft images that have little connection to me, I use my imgz.org account all the time.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by stavros » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:39 PM UTC

holler wrote: post #85

> With this in mind, we found the perfect balance of the "early startup employee" compensation package: 50% stock, 50% equity, 0% salary[0]. I'm IN! Congrats :D 0: https://imgz.org/blog/

Fantastic! I will send you the contracts to sign.

I didn't relaunch though, I just wrote a comment about it and someone posted it and now I have to fix my EXIF stripping breaking animated GIFs at 2 am :( Ah well, no better time than the present.

Re: IMGZ – Paid image sharing

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Post by tyingq » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 10:39 PM UTC

bananamerica wrote: post #53

Somebody suggested me cubeupload some time ago. Is there anything wrong with it?

Is it free? Free image hosting always eventually shuts down or monetizes with redirects to an html page with your image and bunch of ads. Bandwidth isn't cheap enough for free image hosting to survive.