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lipstick.com was always going to be far easier to monetize. (The site Reddit made for Conde Naste before they bought Reddit). Celebs? Gossip? Woman demographi

by axod 16y ago

lipstick.com was always going to be far easier to monetize. (The site Reddit made for Conde Naste before they bought Reddit). Celebs? Gossip? Woman demographics? non techie? Jeez you'd have been able to make millions... http://web.archive.org/web/20071025012630/http://lipstick.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20071025012630/http://lipstick.co... The site seems to have been killed and not used since 2007. Stupidly bad decision IMHO. Even if you stuck up a crappy website on that domain and just sold lipstick it'd probably pay to run Reddit.

_pi 16y ago
To be honest Reddit isn't that techie anymore, reddit's demographics have shifted to teenage and young adult males and girls who are "geeks". Not only that but the default reddits are becoming a cesspool like Digg. Essentially the community had so much Digg hate in the beginning but at least Kevin Rose kept his site running while the demographics shifted.
- axod 16y ago
  Sure, I think their demographic has shifted away from techie. Now it's anti-consumerist adblock loving pot smokin' gay marriage loving liberals.
  - _pi 16y ago
    I think the rise of humanistic interest sub-reddits with a low knowledge entry barrier killed it.
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