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I think a lot of people (including yourself) have caught on to the business model. It's just that many people can't get past the WTF factor of the funny cat sit

I think a lot of people (including yourself) have caught on to the business model. It's just that many people can't get past the WTF factor of the funny cat site to see that there's a serious business there. Nobody is keeping what we're doing a secret. It's not just "Internet memes" though, it's more about finding untapped types of crowd-source-able humor. There wasn't a popular "there, I fixed it" meme before we launched thereifixedit.com I haven't been keeping explicit score, but the killing 20% figure feels about right. Our count of surviving sites has been constantly growing, we're up to 53 at the moment.

mikeleeorg 16y ago
Ah yes, crowd-source-able humor! Now I'm even more impressed. 53 sites is a lot. Do you have people that oversee the content & comments on those sites? FYI for anyone else who is curious like I am about what those 53 sites might be: http://cheezburger.com/sites http://cheezburger.com/sites
- MartinCron 16y ago
  Yes. We have a lot of people overseeing content and comments, it's most of our staff. Each person generally does between 4 and 6 sites, with the sites generally posting between 1 and 6 items to the front page (featured content) daily. For each thing you see on any front page, there are dozens of things that didn't make it through voting, and for each of those things on the voting pages, there are dozens of things that weren't good enough for voting. We're able to crowdsource the generation/submission of content as well as (some of) the curation of content. A lot of what makes a site work is finding the right balance between editorial vision and letting users vote on what they like.