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> exceedingly simple yet expensive to run.

• trymas 10y ago
  Yes! I wonder how it started? Did it had some unobtrusive ads or donation since the beginning? It would also be interesting to know how much it costs to run imgur.com (at day one and now). I imagine that the bill that came after first month or a quarter would have been so large that no indie dev could let that have it out of his own pocket, I even doubt that ad or donation revenue would have covered that either. Creating 'a simple image hosting service' is rather easy, but oh boy it's expensive, otherwise there would be gazillion 'simple image hosting services' or imageshack, photobucket and similar wouldn't have become bullshit in the first place.