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Out of curiosity, what were the main costs for the services you were involved in? Engineers? CPU for resize/transcoding? Storage? Bandwidth?

• Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
  Just the hosting costs. Our costs were pretty low, actually, but it was out of our own pockets and never turned a profit.
  • Veratyr 11y ago
    Were they low enough that they could conceivably be satisfied by donations? Certainly no startup but a self sustaining, non-commercial image host could be nice.
    • Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
      MediaCrush did accept donations and had ads, but the actual donor turnout and ad revenue was pretty pathetic. https://web.archive.org/web/20150211095158/https://mediacru.sh/transparency/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150211095158/https://mediacru....
    • dack 11y ago
      I think we need to think about why people might donate. Picture you use a service, it shows you an image... do you think to pull out your credit card and send them money? Why would you with all the other image services out there? I mean, a few will, but I think you need to create something that actually solves someones problem in a meaningful way (that is unique compared to free services).