Could maybe time-delay search results for free users.
Premium users (news companies etc) pay for more real-time service.
My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
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Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#92This is something that I have thought about a lot recently because I've been wanting to start my own company as well. I don't plan on making money from it right away. I would love to, but at the end of the day.. It comes down to what is reality, which in this case for me is that I will not be making any/much money off of my site. I've looked at alternatives to how I can change this and will continue to do so. Kudos to you for managing to keep your idea going for this long with little to no hope. Maybe I will have to be just like you and just keep at it only because of the love and passion you have for your own product. Best of luck to you on your new project(s)
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#93The idea seems like a good one but you are not solving any problem, it is just a cool way to discover photos on twitter. If you have 6 millions unique users, can you charge businesses to feature their photo on the home page and charge per follower you give them?
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#94Make a Twicsy app, price it at a dollar, push it through the site and you're set.
I agree this idea has potential, and I have thought about it, but I am a bad web developer, and an even worse app developer. I have been looking for a partner to possibly do it with a rev share and I have contacted numerous people, but no takers...
If you are interested, i can develop NATIVE android/ios mobile html/web based app (similar to phonegap with embedded socket server) based on Xamarin.Android/Xamarin.IOS for FREE (looking to publish a portfolio of case studies). If interested contact srid68 at gmail.
Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#95Best title ever.
Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#96I get that people are trying to be helpful, and think that's great. But this blog post was awesome, raw, and captured something that so few of us can really relate to. Dude grinds for 10 years, keeps grinding, doesn't know where to go but will probably keep grinding. "Twicsy, you son of a bitch. You frustrate me so. I love you, but oh how I hate to love you." Shine on, buddy. Best of luck!
I know this man's feels. 4chan is only one month older. It's like we're cousins.
Oh, don't pretend you haven't become fabulously wealthy with all those 4chan passes.
How many of those do you sell, anyway (if you don't mind me asking)?
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#97Honestly speaking I've used the website a lot, but only recently I started thinking why doesn't the founder take it to the next level? It's an amazing website!
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#98My general anti-B2C bias may be showing, but unless you've discovered a new core interaction for people (Instagrammy) I'm betting the 6 million visits a month is basically just a function of having a lot of content about Justin Bieber (and a zillion other topics) which is beating Twitter because Twitter has relatively poor SEO (for a reason). This sort of suggests that the momentary attention of 6 million people is w…
I will keep Twicsy going until it makes much less than no sense at all!!!!!!! But, I am already working on the next thing and we have generated more revenue in the last few months than Twicsy/Dumbfind/Searchles did in 10 years.
Can I just say that I love your attitude? A borderline unhealthy sense of self deprecation and just 'doing it' because you can - qualities I wish more tech people had.
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#99The real problem here IMO is that the focus is on the investors and making a product that will attracted such.
There's something fundamentally wrong with the approach when the major focus is on something else than earning money.
I know, I've been there too.
loop "Build something you can sell. Find a customer. Send a bill. Get money."
Re: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
#100Just keep growing the traffic however you can while you break even and figure out how to turn it into something profitable long term.