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IMGZ – Paid image sharing

357 points by vyrotek 5y ago

jonny_eh 5y ago
Is it $5/year (says on home), or $1/month (says on pricing page)?
- d4mi3n 5y ago
  From the pricing page (fine print): * All prices paid per year but shown per month because if I get another person telling me that "$5 A MoNth Is toO ExPeNSiVe FoR 1 GB" I'm going to lose it. Small print may be too small to read. Service comes with no guarantee, not even guarantee of service. Do not email us for support you do not get any. Paying us money doesn't entitle you to anything except owning less money. Disclaimer may make less sense as you read on, this is not the disclaimer's fault and is by design.
  - blunte 5y ago
    Well, I might pay $5/yr for an image service that sometimes works, with a side of comedy. It's better than some of the free options...
  - jrochkind1 5y ago
    I still don't understand. $1 month is $12/year? Where does $5/year come from?
    - Chico75 5y ago
      It was just updated: https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf8295af9a0a67de1290691d0e https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829...
    - topher200 5y ago
      The pricing was updated today: https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf8295af9a0a67de1290691d0e https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829...
    - stavros 5y ago
      It used to be $5/yr but everyone complained that $5/mo was too high, so I changed it to "$1/mo billed annually", which amazingly has solved the complaints without reducing subscriptions at all (they were already at zero).
toomuchtodo 5y ago
A Stavros product. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stavros https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stavros Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627714
- jessaustin 5y ago
  The switch from 'StavrosK really confused me and seemed fake at first...
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  - stavros 5y ago
    Oh yes, sorry! I legally changed my username, apparently you can do this and dang was very accommodating.
    - jessaustin 5y ago
      It's fine! I understand now, and it's nice this was possible.
    - mattowen_uk 5y ago
      I changed mine a while back[1], (I was Jaruzel), although I don't think dang would be that happy if we all started asking. Stavros, now that I'm in your comment replies... can I hijack this comment branch to ask what payment provider you are using and what the integration process was like ? --- [1] I did it during a peak of self-loathing, I kinda regret it now, but ho-hum.
      - stavros 5y ago
        I'm using Stripe, they're great! I love them.
        mattowen_uk 5y ago
RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
Very neat. The thing that scares me about doing any type of personal project for image sharing/hosting (especially with a free tier/trial) is that very quickly it will become a magnet for some very awful stuff. What are your plans for dealing with that?
- stavros 5y ago
  CloudFlare has a thing where it automatically reports bad stuff to me and the authorities, and I turned it on, so hopefully all the abusers will be discouraged by that. Also I have their credit card info.
  - Lammy 5y ago
    A "privacy" paragraph would be appreciated on the Terms page: https://imgz.org/help/terms/ https://imgz.org/help/terms/ Personally I would want to know if my uploads were going through some scanning engine from one of the tier-1 Internet gatekeepers who I would have to trust to not keep/forward a copy.
    - stavros 5y ago
      Hm, the site uses CloudFlare (and that's about it), is that what you mean?
      - Lammy 5y ago
        Yes :)
        stavros 5y ago
        I can mention that on the privacy page, yep!
  - RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
    Did not know about that Cloudflare service. Thanks for sharing. I learned something.
vyrotek 5y ago
I hope their architecture handles the HN front page load well. :) https://imgz.org/i9hxfgRu.png https://imgz.org/i9hxfgRu.png
- busymom0 5y ago
  Funniest pricing page. Make sure to read the disclaimer at the bottom: https://imgz.org/money/ https://imgz.org/money/
- tyingq 5y ago
  May be more a TOS problem than a load problem, though maybe they are on the big paid plan at CF. server: cloudflare cf-cache-status: HIT
  - stavros 5y ago
    I am definitely on something.
- GauntletWizard 5y ago
  I want to know what tool was used to create that image. It's fantastic and I have many uses for it.
  - hardwaresofton 5y ago
    Looks like https://www.cloudcraft.co/ https://www.cloudcraft.co/
    - stavros 5y ago
      Yep, exactly!
statico 5y ago
I've been hoping for an Imgur replacement for simple, hosted image sharing. I'm happy to pay $1/mo, but when I tried to upload https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9ec8d13de2878c899fda0bd43e4509d8eda0e59c686ff0c20b7b120176adb9b1/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f4e79677a6945642e676966 https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9ec8d13de2878c899fda0bd43... I got this, which doesn't look like what I uploaded: https://cln.sh/4coS9T https://cln.sh/4coS9T / https://imgz.org/i5qphFzd.gif https://imgz.org/i5qphFzd.gif
- stavros 5y ago
  Well that's extremely odd, I will look into that right now. EDIT: This is very odd, I'm not really doing any processing on the uploaded files, so it should definitely return the originals. I will have this fixed soon though. EDIT2: Unfortunately, the saved image in the DB itself is corrupt, so you will need to reupload after I solve this. EDIT3: Alright this should be fixed! Now I can start submitting animated GIFs there. EDIT4: Ironically, now ONLY animated GIFs work, because 2am is when I do some of my best work. Stand by...
  - silisili 5y ago
    Same for me. I tried uploading this test image - https://bhi61nm2cr3mkdgk1dtaov18-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/cc_resize/pig_thm-050b9-550x0.jpg https://bhi61nm2cr3mkdgk1dtaov18-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-... (dont ask, lol) and the uploaded image was a negative of it.
    - stavros 5y ago
      That one worked for me: https://imgz.org/i4mdbiQL.jpg https://imgz.org/i4mdbiQL.jpg
      - silisili 5y ago
        Sorry I may have been dishonest there. I downloaded it from the google search results directly, perhaps this link- https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFsEM5a7caZcxlKhRP-CmUm_1gO4BjMJn4eA&usqp=CAU https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFsEM5... it resulted in https://imgz.org/i5Q2gzwB.png https://imgz.org/i5Q2gzwB.png
CosmicShadow 5y ago
Strike while the iron is hot I guess, but not sure why you you are being such an ass in your copy, it's kind of a turn off, even if it is super cheap. Maybe it's a trend where if something is super cheap people tend to write in that style, but it kind of erodes trust, unless this is supposed to be a joke site, but the fact that I don't know really hurts your chance to actually get users to want to give you their email or money. Nothing against being edgy or sweary or whatever, I like it normally, but not when you are trying to sell something on the Internet when you don't have some trust anchor that makes me ignore it like a big name brand.
- stavros 5y ago
  Ah, see, you're assuming the site is not serious and I didn't actually make this because I needed it and it'll be a hassle if other people use it so they need to give me money to offset the hassle.
  - edoceo 5y ago
    It's not "free" money. They pay for the service. It's just regular money.
- busymom0 5y ago
  Call me crazy but the funny pricing page and copy is what convinces me to throw some money at this site.
  - stavros 5y ago
    If you upload a video of you throwing money at the screen I will give you a year's subscription.
    - busymom0 5y ago
      Join my onlyfans to get that video..
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yelnatz 5y ago
$34 500 GB You're just showing off More images The server doesn't have that much space don't get this LMAO
- s1artibartfast 5y ago
  from the FAQ: >Does bandwidth cost extra? >No. I don't know. It's not a problem yet. If it becomes a problem, I'll make it your problem, but I think we're gonna be okay.
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vmception 5y ago
> Image Sharing. No Bullshit Sign up with email: Bullshit Free trial (for a paid service?): Bullshit That's a lot of bullshit for a no bullshit service
- romwell 5y ago
  It's a statement, not a product. And it's a bullshit statement, FWIW
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calltrak 5y ago
i like to use https://picc.io https://picc.io image sharing
bananamerica 5y ago
Somebody suggested me cubeupload some time ago. Is there anything wrong with it?
- tyingq 5y ago
  Is it free? Free image hosting always eventually shuts down or monetizes with redirects to an html page with your image and bunch of ads. Bandwidth isn't cheap enough for free image hosting to survive.
  - bananamerica 5y ago
    It is free. It has ads and accept donations. No compression. Online since 2006.
    - tyingq 5y ago
      Right. But they seem to be "on the edge" quite a lot. Like this: https://twitter.com/CubeUpload/status/1169580329683828736 https://twitter.com/CubeUpload/status/1169580329683828736 https://twitter.com/cubeupload/status/1169299066242682880 https://twitter.com/cubeupload/status/1169299066242682880 https://twitter.com/CubeUpload/status/1024951808484102144 https://twitter.com/CubeUpload/status/1024951808484102144
fortran77 5y ago
He says there's a $5/year option, but if you go to pay, there isn't one. https://imgz.org/money/ https://imgz.org/money/
- stavros 5y ago
  Update: I don't say that any more.
NelsonMinar 5y ago
Call me back once they have a plan to deal with abusive content.
- Scaevolus 5y ago
  For $1/mo/user, it's still profitable to spend 2 minutes reviewing an abuse complaint and banning a user. :-)
  - NelsonMinar 5y ago
    I'm not sure that meets US legal standards for moderation of sexual images, particularly ones involving children. Of course the last thing the host of IMGZ wants is child porn. But it's going to happen anyway and preventing it is a major barrier to hosting images in this way.
hnaccy 5y ago
This is ~17x more expensive than B2 served through Cloudflare.
- rexreed 5y ago
  Other people's servers, other people's liability.
- killingtime74 5y ago
  Business idea, under cut this guy by serving B2 via Cloudflare as a service
NikolaNovak 5y ago
I see a lot of comments about the $5 a year quote. I see $12 on front page - I wonder if it's just changed in last hour or am I getting a Canadian special :-)
- stavros 5y ago
  (It changed in the last hour https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf8295af9a0a67de1290691d0e https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829...)
  - solarkraft 5y ago
    Unfortunate. 5$ is a perfect no brainer price, but I pay 1€/mo for my e-mail hosting and definitely get more value out of that ... Flawless demand adjustment, though.
    - toyg 5y ago
      Out of curiosity, what do you use for email? I'm currently on Office365 but it's way overkill...
      - stavros 5y ago
        I use FastMail and it's around $2-$3/mo if you prepay. I love it, recommended.
      - solarkraft 5y ago
        Tutanota. They’re a cooler company than Proton but due to the lack of a bright I can’t unconditionally recommend the service - you’re confined to the (web) app.
        solarkraft 5y ago
        Bridge. I meant bridge.
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paxys 5y ago
Those are some pretty terrible prices. You can share images (or anything else) publicly from Dropbox/Box/GDrive/OneDrive for a lot cheaper. Or just cut out the middleman and set up a S3 bucket for a few cents.
- detritus 5y ago
  This is like $12 a year. I also have a dropbox account, which I hate. I also have various web storage accounts. For sharing silly daft images that have little connection to me, I use my imgz.org account all the time.
  - paxys 5y ago
    $12/year for 2GB. Free plans: Dropbox 2GB, OneDrive 5GB, Box 10GB, GDrive 15GB. They all let you generate public read-only links which aren't connected back to your account.
    - detritus 5y ago
      You know what, I literally couldn't give a fuck. I have multiple hosted web storage, google storage, paid-for dropbox etc accounts, as well as reddit and imgur accounts - and the one I use to share stupid images is this one. This was posted here a couple of years back, I liked the pitch, i paid for it. I also enjoy avocado liberally smashed on shit.
      - stavros 5y ago
        Make sure you use https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/ https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/, I love it: 02:07:53 $ imgz uruav-dji-fpv-porturuav-dji-fpv-port02.jpg Page URL: https://imgz.org/i32hJdL8/ Image URL: https://imgz.org/i32hJdL8.jpg So nice.
        belltaco 5y ago
        Is there ShareX code?
detritus 5y ago
I'm on my second year subscription, even if the owner's a total cunt who actually responds to justifiable emails.
- mattl 5y ago
  Owner sounds a bit full of themselves for sure. Any horror stories?
  - detritus 5y ago
    Nope. It's a few bucks a year silly image hosting account. I mean, I'm a grumpy, cheap fucker, but even I would struggle to find fault. - ed in fact, to clarify - I have twice written to Stavros, and both times he's been upmost helpful. Proving what a liar he is and how he fails to live up to his marketing.
    - stavros 5y ago
      <3
  - Biganon 5y ago
    Owner has humor and talks to his customers like they're adults (adults with a sense of humor)
  - AussieWog93 5y ago
    >Any horror stories? One time I made a joke on HN that feel flat, and he posted a sarcastic comment! He also bought an oscilloscope from me and made sure I marked the package correctly so it didn't get caught up in (corrupt) Greek customs, causing a tiny amount of extra work at my end! True sociopathic behaviour!
    - stavros 5y ago
      Holy shit I LOVE the Labrador, it's the most useful thing I have. Guys, if you're into electronics at all, buy one right now (https://github.com/EspoTek/Labrador/ https://github.com/EspoTek/Labrador/), it's amazing and only $30. Also I'd say I'm sorry about the comment but that would imply I've changed but I'm still a sarcastic asshole. I'm working on it though.
holler 5y ago
> With this in mind, we found the perfect balance of the "early startup employee" compensation package: 50% stock, 50% equity, 0% salary[0]. I'm IN! Congrats :D 0: https://imgz.org/blog/ https://imgz.org/blog/
- stavros 5y ago
  Fantastic! I will send you the contracts to sign. I didn't relaunch though, I just wrote a comment about it and someone posted it and now I have to fix my EXIF stripping breaking animated GIFs at 2 am :( Ah well, no better time than the present.
  - aduitsis 5y ago
    Hah, Greek time zone eh?
    - stavros 5y ago
      Yes :( There are worse timezones, there's this school in England whose timezone is like 12 minutes away from the rest of the country.
      - aarchi 5y ago
        What timezone is that? I don’t see it in the tz database. My favorite may be Lord Howe Island in Australia (Australia/Lord_Howe), which uses +10:30 in the winter and +11:00 in the summer.
        stavros 5y ago
        Hm, I thought I read about that here[1] but I can't find it now, so my brain may have made it up. Nepal is 45 minutes off, though, apparently! [1]: https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time-zones/ https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe...
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nikolay 5y ago
Unfortunately, Stavros has some issues keeping his services up. I was a user of his https://historio.us https://historio.us long-time ago, a paying one, and he just killed the service and lost all my data. Some time later, he restarted the service and gave my username to somebody else. Don't put anything meaningful and valuable into his services! Hello, I'm afraid I couldn't find your backup file :/ It looks like your account may have been one of the older ones to be reclaimed, when we hadn't added the backup functionality yet. I'm sorry about that :/ Thanks, Stavros
- stavros 5y ago
  That's a bit of a liberal retelling. You had a free account, the system sends you one (or two, I forget) emails if your free account is inactive, and if you don't log in for a few months it deletes the data to make room for others. There was a period where I didn't keep backups of the data on free accounts, but people complained, so I added that. I think it's a bit unfair to expect me to keep account data around forever for free, even after notifications that the account is inactive and will be deleted. Also, wasn't this more than half a decade ago? EDIT: Also, your account isn't even deleted, only the pages are, so your username should still be there, no? EDIT2: Also also, paid users don't get deleted, so something must have happened there. Maybe your payment method failed when renewing, or you didn't have a paid account? What's the username? EDIT3: I found the thread: You: Why did all my bookmarks disappear from my account? Me: We only delete the links of unpaid accounts, as they take up too much space. We do have a backup export of your links I can send you, though. You: Can you please? I will upgrade to a paid account if you restore my links. Me: Sure, but it will have to be tomorrow, as I'm not at the computer right now. And then what you posted above. So it wasn't a paid account, this was seven years ago, your username wasn't given to someone else, and I didn't kill the service or lose your data.
  - kragen 5y ago
    It seems like there's a dispute of fact, whether this person was paying you or not: you say "You had a free account," and they say they were a paying customer. I don't think "half a decade ago" is a reasonable time horizon after which to consider accusations of outright fraud irrelevant. If this person is telling the truth, then not only did you defraud them a few years ago, but you're lying about it now; this seems like an important thing for potential users of your new service to know about you. (Presumably your character has not changed much in the last five years, whether it was good or bad before.) If you're telling the truth, they're lying, presumably in order to hurt you.
mahgnous 5y ago
Step 1 asking for my email is bullshit though...
kragen 5y ago
I gave up and just put a file-upload CGI program (I'd say "script" but it's in C) on my own web page.
toby- 5y ago
I was so confused by the absence of a login form, below "Already have an account? No you don't. Try to log in below if you think you do anyway." Turns out uBlock was hiding the form; possibly one of my 'social' blocklists. Just in case anybody else runs into that problem!
- stavros 5y ago
  Actually I have the exact same problem. I should fix that... EDIT: Fixed, thanks!
  - toby- 5y ago
    Oh wow, quick response & fix haha. Thank you! You might've just convinced me to pay for the service. Looks good.
    - stavros 5y ago
      Ahaha you fell right into my trap!
      - toby- 5y ago
        Now to seduce you further into expanding my 2GB/month limit. ;) Nah, in all seriousness - looks like a good service. Happy to be aboard!
  - jrochkind1 5y ago
    Honestly I feel like you're being very dishonest about your commitment to providing no support, you've provided all kinds of support already.
    - stavros 5y ago
      Ah but I didn't commit to providing no support, I didn't commit to provide support. Support is provided at-will!
slimebot 5y ago
No BS is fine, but there are different variations on that :) Stochastic Technologies 5th Floor, Genesis Building, Genesis Close George Town, Grand Cayman Cayman Islands, KY1-1106
MangoCoffee 5y ago
is your service profitable? what tier of service does average user go for?
- stavros 5y ago
  I made it for my use, so yes! Anything over $0 would be profitable. Two out of three users use the "cheapass" plan. The other guy has the "person" plan.
- smitop 5y ago
  I used to be a subscriber (until my subscription lapsed, but I would have renewed if there was a reminder email!), I went for the cheapest plan. (also if you pay with bitcoin you get a fun message after subscribing)
CR007 5y ago
Spoiler alert: Image hosting is a little bit more complicated. Good luck with it.
- stavros 5y ago
  Thanks, I'm hoping that having credit card numbers will keep most of the miscreants away, though I know that stolen card numbers exist.
solarkraft 5y ago
> You are a guest here. You can use IMGZ, and it'll always be great, because I'm great > It's simple, what do you want No bullshit, you say? I like tongue in cheek stuff, jokes and all, but that tone sounds more like “fuck you” than a solid, reliable business relationship with adequate respect where the customer is not the product. Besides that: Props for so quickly capitalizing on the (probably still brewing) imgur controversy!
- stavros 5y ago
  > I like tongue in cheek stuff, jokes and all, but that tone sounds more like “fuck you” than a solid, reliable business relationship with adequate respect where the customer is not the product. I kind of talk about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28677501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28677501 Basically, it's a bit funny that people complain that it sounds more like a "fuck you" when that's the entire point, and the site is completely explicit about it. We don't trust services to not want our money, even when they're telling us they don't. We just think it's a ploy. > Besides that: Props for so quickly capitalizing on the (probably still brewing) imgur controversy! Thanks! I made the site and bam!, two years later, Imgur imploded and I made $12!
p1mrx 5y ago
Could you actually "sell" a company, where the price is "$1M/year for the rest of my life"? If imgz becomes the next FAANG, then that'd be quite cheap.
- stavros 5y ago
  Only one way to find out!
dd444fgdfg 5y ago
Stavros. You need to detach a little bit, get a 10,000m view. You've got something, you can be successful. But your approach is "out of whack" and people aren't going to support you. Conform to influence.
- TeMPOraL 5y ago
  Conform to influence. OBEY. I was going to upload a nice screencap from a 1988 movie They Live to IMGZ and link it here, but it turns out my trial expired so no link for you.
  - stavros 5y ago
    Well guess what just UNEXPIRED
    - TeMPOraL 5y ago
      Why thank you. I thought I actually had a paid account, but it turns out I misremembered. Got to fix that. EDIT now the site disagrees and tells me I already paid. That's one growth hack. The joke has expired so still no meme image for the parent poster. I appreciate the explanation, though.
      - stavros 5y ago
        > EDIT now the site disagrees and tells me I already paid. That's one growth hack. That's because I upgraded you, so you look upgraded to it.
        TeMPOraL 5y ago
        The nerve!
  - dd444fgdfg 5y ago
    Obey propaganda :D actually, conform to influence doesn't mean that. It means, to influence a group you need to be part of the group. To be part of the group, you need to first conform to the group.
kibblesalad 5y ago
I can do this myself for much cheaper by buying a used computer from eBay, waiting 3 weeks for it to ship with missing parts, trading my old bike for more RAM from Craiglist, setting up Arch on it, compiling my own drivers, writing a webserver and firewall from scratch, connecting it to the internet and then using it twice before my ISP cuts my service for breaking TOS by running hosting on a consumer plan. I could have even just gotten a DigitalOcean VPS for $5 a month and conned friends into paying my costs for me in return for creating them a username and password to a half-working FTP server where they can upload their images in sixteen easy steps.
- stavros 5y ago
  Can you do it cheaper? Yes. But can you do it better? Also yes.
- toyg 5y ago
  You forgot mounting via curlftps and using SVN or CVS on it.
normalocity 5y ago
I got so much joy out of the FAQ I nearly paid just as a thank you for putting a smile on my face.
- stavros 5y ago
  > I got so much joy out of the FAQ I nearly paid just as a thank you for putting a smile on my face. > I got so much joy out of the FAQ I nearly paid > I nearly paid > nearly paid > nearly
  - akavel 5y ago
    Sorry, service provider satisfaction not guaranteed! Also, the customer may have had a great journey with the website.
marethyu 5y ago
> ashamed of what Imgur has become? Can anyone explain what's the problem with Imgur?
- stavros 5y ago
  Basically the issue I had with it is that they seem to make the site less and less usable as an image host. They used to have (or at least allow) a way to upload images from the command line, but mine stopped working at some point, I couldn't find the page with all my images, they started putting comments on stuff I posted, things like that. It had turned into a social network when I just wanted a place to send a screenshot to a friend, which I was very dissatisfied about.
sli 5y ago
I sure do love it when a pricing tier openly dehumanizes me.
RScholar 5y ago
Man, if Gimlet Media hadn't gotten flushed down the Spotify crapper, this thread would've made for the most sublime episode of Reply All.
yesenadam 5y ago
I thought the comments to this were well above average on the entertaining scale. Pretty embarrassing, though, that probably the majority of comments seemed to take it seriously, even reprimanding the creator for not being serious enough, not taking his Business seriously enough. It seems to create dissonance among many that such a thing even exists. People seem deeply confused it's not full speed ahead, like every other commercial site, trying to grab money from users. We on HN constantly complain that the internet was taken over by smooth, malevolent, lying mega-corporations, with 1GB ToS's and thousands of employees..and here's something completely different and people entitledly shit on it. It's a joke, people! From HN's own Stavros. Or, who knows what it is. Something Stavros did for fun and uses himself. A thing. Can't things just be allowed to be what they are? It's like people can't tolerate the existence of unique things, and have to see them as just really bad versions of a known category of things. "This round thing is bad because I can't force it into this square hole." And I guess when someone posts something to HN it gets judged as if submitted by the author and designed, badly, for the person now reading it. Ugly font! Bad colours! Unprofessional tone! Bad marketing! etc. ..Wasn't the internet 100% like that in the good old days?
- stavros 5y ago
  This is how I feel too, it was surprising (and educational) to see some commenters having trouble accepting that someone might have just made a thing for fun. I think it's the fact that you can buy it that trips them up. I imagine Cards Against Humanity got a lot of the same comments.
  - yesenadam 5y ago
    A Man that steps aside from the World, and hath leisure to observe it without Interest or Design, thinks all Mankind as mad as they think him. – Halifax (1633-95)
    - stavros 5y ago
      That's a great quote.
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saimiam 5y ago
Imgz's pricing page made me wonder - if someone stops paying their dues for their imgz account, is it legal to auction off their photos 'as-is'? I feel this would be similar to all those "storage wars" type shows where people buy a storage unit on auction after a preliminary look-see. @stavros - if legal, put this in your ToS. "Clear your dues or else..."
- stavros 5y ago
  Hahah, that's a great idea! Maybe I should start auctioning off sealed accounts, and you see what photos are in there when you buy it.
  - saimiam 5y ago
    Love it! Maybe show a small percentage of the photos picked at random in the sealed account to bidders...
    - stavros 5y ago
      YES! Excellent.
      - pfarrell 5y ago
        Wait! You’ve gotta get NFT in that pipeline somehow.
        stavros 5y ago
        Oh yes, how could I forget? I will raise it to the board and get back to you.
    - Corrado 5y ago
      You could also convert them to a lower resolution, just to keep the suspense alive.
      - 5y ago
antihero 5y ago
If you don't mind using AWS you can just set up an S3 bucket and a point a CloudFront distro to it (takes <5mins) and then just do upload() { aws s3 cp ${@:2} $1 s3://$BUCKET_NAME echo https://$CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN/$1 | pbcopy }
- stavros 5y ago
  I do mind.
  - the-dude 5y ago
    The Dude minds!
- thih9 5y ago
  Honestly, so many things could go wrong here. I’m a programmer and I’d have to google how to “do” the above. If anything, this makes me want to sign up for IMGZ. Maybe the above comment should be on IMGZ landing page.
  - soulchild37 5y ago
    Dropbox flashbacks anyone, "Why would anyone use dropbox when I can just rsync over"
  - stavros 5y ago
    Done!
- matkoniecz 5y ago
  I am not fine with AWS as there is no way to avoid suprise 30 000 $ payments caused by some bug.
- lupire 5y ago
  That sounds more annoying than paying $12/yr.
hurflmurfl 5y ago
Can you tell us how many people have tried logging in as you?
- stavros 5y ago
  Five so far!
zcw100 5y ago
I think I've seen the "where do I put my image files?" in the database or not for about two decades now with no definitive answer. I can't believe someone hasn't come out with a custom database specifically for storing images.
- stavros 5y ago
  Actually, that'd be great, especially if it could resize/add logos/etc and cache variants.
xmaayy 5y ago
Just commenting because I want to save this post
- stavros 5y ago
  There's a "save" button, damn.
TwinProduction 5y ago
The pricing page is perfect
climb_stealth 5y ago
Excuse me stavros, this is brilliant. I have no real intention of using the service but I got a subscription because this really cracked me up. I love every little bit of it. Great work! Or maybe I will use it as I have an account now. We shall see.
- stavros 5y ago
  You should definitely use it for excellence.

357 points by vyrotek 5y ago

jonny_eh 5y ago

Is it $5/year (says on home), or $1/month (says on pricing page)?

d4mi3n 5y ago
From the pricing page (fine print): * All prices paid per year but shown per month because if I get another person telling me that "$5 A MoNth Is toO ExPeNSiVe FoR 1 GB" I'm going to lose it. Small print may be too small to read. Service comes with no guarantee, not even guarantee of service. Do not email us for support you do not get any. Paying us money doesn't entitle you to anything except owning less money. Disclaimer may make less sense as you read on, this is not the disclaimer's fault and is by design.
- blunte 5y ago
  Well, I might pay $5/yr for an image service that sometimes works, with a side of comedy. It's better than some of the free options...
- jrochkind1 5y ago
  I still don't understand. $1 month is $12/year? Where does $5/year come from?
  - Chico75 5y ago
    It was just updated: https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf8295af9a0a67de1290691d0e https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829...
  - topher200 5y ago
    The pricing was updated today: https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf8295af9a0a67de1290691d0e https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829...
  - stavros 5y ago
    It used to be $5/yr but everyone complained that $5/mo was too high, so I changed it to "$1/mo billed annually", which amazingly has solved the complaints without reducing subscriptions at all (they were already at zero).

toomuchtodo 5y ago

A Stavros product. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stavros https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stavros Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627714

jessaustin 5y ago
The switch from 'StavrosK really confused me and seemed fake at first...
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- stavros 5y ago
  Oh yes, sorry! I legally changed my username, apparently you can do this and dang was very accommodating.
  - jessaustin 5y ago
    It's fine! I understand now, and it's nice this was possible.
  - mattowen_uk 5y ago
    I changed mine a while back[1], (I was Jaruzel), although I don't think dang would be that happy if we all started asking. Stavros, now that I'm in your comment replies... can I hijack this comment branch to ask what payment provider you are using and what the integration process was like ? --- [1] I did it during a peak of self-loathing, I kinda regret it now, but ho-hum.
    - stavros 5y ago
      I'm using Stripe, they're great! I love them.
      - mattowen_uk 5y ago

RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago

Very neat. The thing that scares me about doing any type of personal project for image sharing/hosting (especially with a free tier/trial) is that very quickly it will become a magnet for some very awful stuff. What are your plans for dealing with that?

stavros 5y ago
CloudFlare has a thing where it automatically reports bad stuff to me and the authorities, and I turned it on, so hopefully all the abusers will be discouraged by that. Also I have their credit card info.
- Lammy 5y ago
  A "privacy" paragraph would be appreciated on the Terms page: https://imgz.org/help/terms/ https://imgz.org/help/terms/ Personally I would want to know if my uploads were going through some scanning engine from one of the tier-1 Internet gatekeepers who I would have to trust to not keep/forward a copy.
  - stavros 5y ago
    Hm, the site uses CloudFlare (and that's about it), is that what you mean?
    - Lammy 5y ago
      Yes :)
      - stavros 5y ago
        I can mention that on the privacy page, yep!
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
  Did not know about that Cloudflare service. Thanks for sharing. I learned something.

vyrotek 5y ago

I hope their architecture handles the HN front page load well. :) https://imgz.org/i9hxfgRu.png https://imgz.org/i9hxfgRu.png

busymom0 5y ago
Funniest pricing page. Make sure to read the disclaimer at the bottom: https://imgz.org/money/ https://imgz.org/money/
tyingq 5y ago
May be more a TOS problem than a load problem, though maybe they are on the big paid plan at CF. server: cloudflare cf-cache-status: HIT
- stavros 5y ago
  I am definitely on something.
GauntletWizard 5y ago
I want to know what tool was used to create that image. It's fantastic and I have many uses for it.
- hardwaresofton 5y ago
  Looks like https://www.cloudcraft.co/ https://www.cloudcraft.co/
  - stavros 5y ago
    Yep, exactly!

statico 5y ago

I've been hoping for an Imgur replacement for simple, hosted image sharing. I'm happy to pay $1/mo, but when I tried to upload https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9ec8d13de2878c899fda0bd43e4509d8eda0e59c686ff0c20b7b120176adb9b1/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f4e79677a6945642e676966 https://camo.githubusercontent.com/9ec8d13de2878c899fda0bd43... I got this, which doesn't look like what I uploaded: https://cln.sh/4coS9T https://cln.sh/4coS9T / https://imgz.org/i5qphFzd.gif https://imgz.org/i5qphFzd.gif

stavros 5y ago
Well that's extremely odd, I will look into that right now. EDIT: This is very odd, I'm not really doing any processing on the uploaded files, so it should definitely return the originals. I will have this fixed soon though. EDIT2: Unfortunately, the saved image in the DB itself is corrupt, so you will need to reupload after I solve this. EDIT3: Alright this should be fixed! Now I can start submitting animated GIFs there. EDIT4: Ironically, now ONLY animated GIFs work, because 2am is when I do some of my best work. Stand by...
- silisili 5y ago
  Same for me. I tried uploading this test image - https://bhi61nm2cr3mkdgk1dtaov18-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/cc_resize/pig_thm-050b9-550x0.jpg https://bhi61nm2cr3mkdgk1dtaov18-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-... (dont ask, lol) and the uploaded image was a negative of it.
  - stavros 5y ago
    That one worked for me: https://imgz.org/i4mdbiQL.jpg https://imgz.org/i4mdbiQL.jpg
    - silisili 5y ago
      Sorry I may have been dishonest there. I downloaded it from the google search results directly, perhaps this link- https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFsEM5a7caZcxlKhRP-CmUm_1gO4BjMJn4eA&usqp=CAU https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFsEM5... it resulted in https://imgz.org/i5Q2gzwB.png https://imgz.org/i5Q2gzwB.png

CosmicShadow 5y ago

Strike while the iron is hot I guess, but not sure why you you are being such an ass in your copy, it's kind of a turn off, even if it is super cheap. Maybe it's a trend where if something is super cheap people tend to write in that style, but it kind of erodes trust, unless this is supposed to be a joke site, but the fact that I don't know really hurts your chance to actually get users to want to give you their email or money. Nothing against being edgy or sweary or whatever, I like it normally, but not when you are trying to sell something on the Internet when you don't have some trust anchor that makes me ignore it like a big name brand.

stavros 5y ago
Ah, see, you're assuming the site is not serious and I didn't actually make this because I needed it and it'll be a hassle if other people use it so they need to give me money to offset the hassle.
- edoceo 5y ago
  It's not "free" money. They pay for the service. It's just regular money.
busymom0 5y ago
Call me crazy but the funny pricing page and copy is what convinces me to throw some money at this site.
- stavros 5y ago
  If you upload a video of you throwing money at the screen I will give you a year's subscription.
  - busymom0 5y ago
    Join my onlyfans to get that video..
    - 5y ago

yelnatz 5y ago

$34 500 GB You're just showing off More images The server doesn't have that much space don't get this LMAO

s1artibartfast 5y ago
from the FAQ: >Does bandwidth cost extra? >No. I don't know. It's not a problem yet. If it becomes a problem, I'll make it your problem, but I think we're gonna be okay.

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vmception 5y ago

> Image Sharing. No Bullshit Sign up with email: Bullshit Free trial (for a paid service?): Bullshit That's a lot of bullshit for a no bullshit service

romwell 5y ago
It's a statement, not a product. And it's a bullshit statement, FWIW

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calltrak 5y ago

i like to use https://picc.io https://picc.io image sharing

bananamerica 5y ago

Somebody suggested me cubeupload some time ago. Is there anything wrong with it?

tyingq 5y ago
Is it free? Free image hosting always eventually shuts down or monetizes with redirects to an html page with your image and bunch of ads. Bandwidth isn't cheap enough for free image hosting to survive.
- bananamerica 5y ago
  It is free. It has ads and accept donations. No compression. Online since 2006.
  - tyingq 5y ago
    Right. But they seem to be "on the edge" quite a lot. Like this: https://twitter.com/CubeUpload/status/1169580329683828736 https://twitter.com/CubeUpload/status/1169580329683828736 https://twitter.com/cubeupload/status/1169299066242682880 https://twitter.com/cubeupload/status/1169299066242682880 https://twitter.com/CubeUpload/status/1024951808484102144 https://twitter.com/CubeUpload/status/1024951808484102144

fortran77 5y ago

He says there's a $5/year option, but if you go to pay, there isn't one. https://imgz.org/money/ https://imgz.org/money/

stavros 5y ago
Update: I don't say that any more.

NelsonMinar 5y ago

Call me back once they have a plan to deal with abusive content.

Scaevolus 5y ago
For $1/mo/user, it's still profitable to spend 2 minutes reviewing an abuse complaint and banning a user. :-)
- NelsonMinar 5y ago
  I'm not sure that meets US legal standards for moderation of sexual images, particularly ones involving children. Of course the last thing the host of IMGZ wants is child porn. But it's going to happen anyway and preventing it is a major barrier to hosting images in this way.

hnaccy 5y ago

This is ~17x more expensive than B2 served through Cloudflare.

rexreed 5y ago
Other people's servers, other people's liability.
killingtime74 5y ago
Business idea, under cut this guy by serving B2 via Cloudflare as a service

NikolaNovak 5y ago

I see a lot of comments about the $5 a year quote. I see $12 on front page - I wonder if it's just changed in last hour or am I getting a Canadian special :-)

stavros 5y ago
(It changed in the last hour https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf8295af9a0a67de1290691d0e https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829...)
- solarkraft 5y ago
  Unfortunate. 5$ is a perfect no brainer price, but I pay 1€/mo for my e-mail hosting and definitely get more value out of that ... Flawless demand adjustment, though.
  - toyg 5y ago
    Out of curiosity, what do you use for email? I'm currently on Office365 but it's way overkill...
    - stavros 5y ago
      I use FastMail and it's around $2-$3/mo if you prepay. I love it, recommended.
    - solarkraft 5y ago
      Tutanota. They’re a cooler company than Proton but due to the lack of a bright I can’t unconditionally recommend the service - you’re confined to the (web) app.
      - solarkraft 5y ago
        Bridge. I meant bridge.
    - 5y ago

paxys 5y ago

Those are some pretty terrible prices. You can share images (or anything else) publicly from Dropbox/Box/GDrive/OneDrive for a lot cheaper. Or just cut out the middleman and set up a S3 bucket for a few cents.

detritus 5y ago
This is like $12 a year. I also have a dropbox account, which I hate. I also have various web storage accounts. For sharing silly daft images that have little connection to me, I use my imgz.org account all the time.
- paxys 5y ago
  $12/year for 2GB. Free plans: Dropbox 2GB, OneDrive 5GB, Box 10GB, GDrive 15GB. They all let you generate public read-only links which aren't connected back to your account.
  - detritus 5y ago
    You know what, I literally couldn't give a fuck. I have multiple hosted web storage, google storage, paid-for dropbox etc accounts, as well as reddit and imgur accounts - and the one I use to share stupid images is this one. This was posted here a couple of years back, I liked the pitch, i paid for it. I also enjoy avocado liberally smashed on shit.
    - stavros 5y ago
      Make sure you use https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/ https://pypi.org/project/imgz_cli/, I love it: 02:07:53 $ imgz uruav-dji-fpv-porturuav-dji-fpv-port02.jpg Page URL: https://imgz.org/i32hJdL8/ Image URL: https://imgz.org/i32hJdL8.jpg So nice.
      - belltaco 5y ago
        Is there ShareX code?

detritus 5y ago

I'm on my second year subscription, even if the owner's a total cunt who actually responds to justifiable emails.

mattl 5y ago
Owner sounds a bit full of themselves for sure. Any horror stories?
- detritus 5y ago
  Nope. It's a few bucks a year silly image hosting account. I mean, I'm a grumpy, cheap fucker, but even I would struggle to find fault. - ed in fact, to clarify - I have twice written to Stavros, and both times he's been upmost helpful. Proving what a liar he is and how he fails to live up to his marketing.
  - stavros 5y ago
    <3
- Biganon 5y ago
  Owner has humor and talks to his customers like they're adults (adults with a sense of humor)
- AussieWog93 5y ago
  >Any horror stories? One time I made a joke on HN that feel flat, and he posted a sarcastic comment! He also bought an oscilloscope from me and made sure I marked the package correctly so it didn't get caught up in (corrupt) Greek customs, causing a tiny amount of extra work at my end! True sociopathic behaviour!
  - stavros 5y ago
    Holy shit I LOVE the Labrador, it's the most useful thing I have. Guys, if you're into electronics at all, buy one right now (https://github.com/EspoTek/Labrador/ https://github.com/EspoTek/Labrador/), it's amazing and only $30. Also I'd say I'm sorry about the comment but that would imply I've changed but I'm still a sarcastic asshole. I'm working on it though.

holler 5y ago

> With this in mind, we found the perfect balance of the "early startup employee" compensation package: 50% stock, 50% equity, 0% salary[0]. I'm IN! Congrats :D 0: https://imgz.org/blog/ https://imgz.org/blog/

stavros 5y ago
Fantastic! I will send you the contracts to sign. I didn't relaunch though, I just wrote a comment about it and someone posted it and now I have to fix my EXIF stripping breaking animated GIFs at 2 am :( Ah well, no better time than the present.
- aduitsis 5y ago
  Hah, Greek time zone eh?
  - stavros 5y ago
    Yes :( There are worse timezones, there's this school in England whose timezone is like 12 minutes away from the rest of the country.
    - aarchi 5y ago
      What timezone is that? I don’t see it in the tz database. My favorite may be Lord Howe Island in Australia (Australia/Lord_Howe), which uses +10:30 in the winter and +11:00 in the summer.
      - stavros 5y ago
        Hm, I thought I read about that here[1] but I can't find it now, so my brain may have made it up. Nepal is 45 minutes off, though, apparently! [1]: https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time-zones/ https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe...
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nikolay 5y ago

Unfortunately, Stavros has some issues keeping his services up. I was a user of his https://historio.us https://historio.us long-time ago, a paying one, and he just killed the service and lost all my data. Some time later, he restarted the service and gave my username to somebody else. Don't put anything meaningful and valuable into his services! Hello, I'm afraid I couldn't find your backup file :/ It looks like your account may have been one of the older ones to be reclaimed, when we hadn't added the backup functionality yet. I'm sorry about that :/ Thanks, Stavros

stavros 5y ago
That's a bit of a liberal retelling. You had a free account, the system sends you one (or two, I forget) emails if your free account is inactive, and if you don't log in for a few months it deletes the data to make room for others. There was a period where I didn't keep backups of the data on free accounts, but people complained, so I added that. I think it's a bit unfair to expect me to keep account data around forever for free, even after notifications that the account is inactive and will be deleted. Also, wasn't this more than half a decade ago? EDIT: Also, your account isn't even deleted, only the pages are, so your username should still be there, no? EDIT2: Also also, paid users don't get deleted, so something must have happened there. Maybe your payment method failed when renewing, or you didn't have a paid account? What's the username? EDIT3: I found the thread: You: Why did all my bookmarks disappear from my account? Me: We only delete the links of unpaid accounts, as they take up too much space. We do have a backup export of your links I can send you, though. You: Can you please? I will upgrade to a paid account if you restore my links. Me: Sure, but it will have to be tomorrow, as I'm not at the computer right now. And then what you posted above. So it wasn't a paid account, this was seven years ago, your username wasn't given to someone else, and I didn't kill the service or lose your data.
- kragen 5y ago
  It seems like there's a dispute of fact, whether this person was paying you or not: you say "You had a free account," and they say they were a paying customer. I don't think "half a decade ago" is a reasonable time horizon after which to consider accusations of outright fraud irrelevant. If this person is telling the truth, then not only did you defraud them a few years ago, but you're lying about it now; this seems like an important thing for potential users of your new service to know about you. (Presumably your character has not changed much in the last five years, whether it was good or bad before.) If you're telling the truth, they're lying, presumably in order to hurt you.

mahgnous 5y ago

Step 1 asking for my email is bullshit though...

kragen 5y ago

I gave up and just put a file-upload CGI program (I'd say "script" but it's in C) on my own web page.

toby- 5y ago

I was so confused by the absence of a login form, below "Already have an account? No you don't. Try to log in below if you think you do anyway." Turns out uBlock was hiding the form; possibly one of my 'social' blocklists. Just in case anybody else runs into that problem!

stavros 5y ago
Actually I have the exact same problem. I should fix that... EDIT: Fixed, thanks!
- toby- 5y ago
  Oh wow, quick response & fix haha. Thank you! You might've just convinced me to pay for the service. Looks good.
  - stavros 5y ago
    Ahaha you fell right into my trap!
    - toby- 5y ago
      Now to seduce you further into expanding my 2GB/month limit. ;) Nah, in all seriousness - looks like a good service. Happy to be aboard!
- jrochkind1 5y ago
  Honestly I feel like you're being very dishonest about your commitment to providing no support, you've provided all kinds of support already.
  - stavros 5y ago
    Ah but I didn't commit to providing no support, I didn't commit to provide support. Support is provided at-will!

slimebot 5y ago

No BS is fine, but there are different variations on that :) Stochastic Technologies 5th Floor, Genesis Building, Genesis Close George Town, Grand Cayman Cayman Islands, KY1-1106

MangoCoffee 5y ago

is your service profitable? what tier of service does average user go for?

stavros 5y ago
I made it for my use, so yes! Anything over $0 would be profitable. Two out of three users use the "cheapass" plan. The other guy has the "person" plan.
smitop 5y ago
I used to be a subscriber (until my subscription lapsed, but I would have renewed if there was a reminder email!), I went for the cheapest plan. (also if you pay with bitcoin you get a fun message after subscribing)

CR007 5y ago

Spoiler alert: Image hosting is a little bit more complicated. Good luck with it.

stavros 5y ago
Thanks, I'm hoping that having credit card numbers will keep most of the miscreants away, though I know that stolen card numbers exist.

solarkraft 5y ago

> You are a guest here. You can use IMGZ, and it'll always be great, because I'm great > It's simple, what do you want No bullshit, you say? I like tongue in cheek stuff, jokes and all, but that tone sounds more like “fuck you” than a solid, reliable business relationship with adequate respect where the customer is not the product. Besides that: Props for so quickly capitalizing on the (probably still brewing) imgur controversy!

stavros 5y ago
> I like tongue in cheek stuff, jokes and all, but that tone sounds more like “fuck you” than a solid, reliable business relationship with adequate respect where the customer is not the product. I kind of talk about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28677501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28677501 Basically, it's a bit funny that people complain that it sounds more like a "fuck you" when that's the entire point, and the site is completely explicit about it. We don't trust services to not want our money, even when they're telling us they don't. We just think it's a ploy. > Besides that: Props for so quickly capitalizing on the (probably still brewing) imgur controversy! Thanks! I made the site and bam!, two years later, Imgur imploded and I made $12!

p1mrx 5y ago

Could you actually "sell" a company, where the price is "$1M/year for the rest of my life"? If imgz becomes the next FAANG, then that'd be quite cheap.

stavros 5y ago
Only one way to find out!

dd444fgdfg 5y ago

Stavros. You need to detach a little bit, get a 10,000m view. You've got something, you can be successful. But your approach is "out of whack" and people aren't going to support you. Conform to influence.

TeMPOraL 5y ago
Conform to influence. OBEY. I was going to upload a nice screencap from a 1988 movie They Live to IMGZ and link it here, but it turns out my trial expired so no link for you.
- stavros 5y ago
  Well guess what just UNEXPIRED
  - TeMPOraL 5y ago
    Why thank you. I thought I actually had a paid account, but it turns out I misremembered. Got to fix that. EDIT now the site disagrees and tells me I already paid. That's one growth hack. The joke has expired so still no meme image for the parent poster. I appreciate the explanation, though.
    - stavros 5y ago
      > EDIT now the site disagrees and tells me I already paid. That's one growth hack. That's because I upgraded you, so you look upgraded to it.
      - TeMPOraL 5y ago
        The nerve!
- dd444fgdfg 5y ago
  Obey propaganda :D actually, conform to influence doesn't mean that. It means, to influence a group you need to be part of the group. To be part of the group, you need to first conform to the group.

kibblesalad 5y ago

I can do this myself for much cheaper by buying a used computer from eBay, waiting 3 weeks for it to ship with missing parts, trading my old bike for more RAM from Craiglist, setting up Arch on it, compiling my own drivers, writing a webserver and firewall from scratch, connecting it to the internet and then using it twice before my ISP cuts my service for breaking TOS by running hosting on a consumer plan. I could have even just gotten a DigitalOcean VPS for $5 a month and conned friends into paying my costs for me in return for creating them a username and password to a half-working FTP server where they can upload their images in sixteen easy steps.

stavros 5y ago
Can you do it cheaper? Yes. But can you do it better? Also yes.
toyg 5y ago
You forgot mounting via curlftps and using SVN or CVS on it.

normalocity 5y ago

I got so much joy out of the FAQ I nearly paid just as a thank you for putting a smile on my face.

stavros 5y ago
> I got so much joy out of the FAQ I nearly paid just as a thank you for putting a smile on my face. > I got so much joy out of the FAQ I nearly paid > I nearly paid > nearly paid > nearly
- akavel 5y ago
  Sorry, service provider satisfaction not guaranteed! Also, the customer may have had a great journey with the website.

marethyu 5y ago

> ashamed of what Imgur has become? Can anyone explain what's the problem with Imgur?

stavros 5y ago
Basically the issue I had with it is that they seem to make the site less and less usable as an image host. They used to have (or at least allow) a way to upload images from the command line, but mine stopped working at some point, I couldn't find the page with all my images, they started putting comments on stuff I posted, things like that. It had turned into a social network when I just wanted a place to send a screenshot to a friend, which I was very dissatisfied about.

sli 5y ago

I sure do love it when a pricing tier openly dehumanizes me.

RScholar 5y ago

Man, if Gimlet Media hadn't gotten flushed down the Spotify crapper, this thread would've made for the most sublime episode of Reply All.

yesenadam 5y ago

I thought the comments to this were well above average on the entertaining scale. Pretty embarrassing, though, that probably the majority of comments seemed to take it seriously, even reprimanding the creator for not being serious enough, not taking his Business seriously enough. It seems to create dissonance among many that such a thing even exists. People seem deeply confused it's not full speed ahead, like every other commercial site, trying to grab money from users. We on HN constantly complain that the internet was taken over by smooth, malevolent, lying mega-corporations, with 1GB ToS's and thousands of employees..and here's something completely different and people entitledly shit on it. It's a joke, people! From HN's own Stavros. Or, who knows what it is. Something Stavros did for fun and uses himself. A thing. Can't things just be allowed to be what they are? It's like people can't tolerate the existence of unique things, and have to see them as just really bad versions of a known category of things. "This round thing is bad because I can't force it into this square hole." And I guess when someone posts something to HN it gets judged as if submitted by the author and designed, badly, for the person now reading it. Ugly font! Bad colours! Unprofessional tone! Bad marketing! etc. ..Wasn't the internet 100% like that in the good old days?

stavros 5y ago
This is how I feel too, it was surprising (and educational) to see some commenters having trouble accepting that someone might have just made a thing for fun. I think it's the fact that you can buy it that trips them up. I imagine Cards Against Humanity got a lot of the same comments.
- yesenadam 5y ago
  A Man that steps aside from the World, and hath leisure to observe it without Interest or Design, thinks all Mankind as mad as they think him. – Halifax (1633-95)
  - stavros 5y ago
    That's a great quote.
- 5y ago

saimiam 5y ago

Imgz's pricing page made me wonder - if someone stops paying their dues for their imgz account, is it legal to auction off their photos 'as-is'? I feel this would be similar to all those "storage wars" type shows where people buy a storage unit on auction after a preliminary look-see. @stavros - if legal, put this in your ToS. "Clear your dues or else..."

stavros 5y ago
Hahah, that's a great idea! Maybe I should start auctioning off sealed accounts, and you see what photos are in there when you buy it.
- saimiam 5y ago
  Love it! Maybe show a small percentage of the photos picked at random in the sealed account to bidders...
  - stavros 5y ago
    YES! Excellent.
    - pfarrell 5y ago
      Wait! You’ve gotta get NFT in that pipeline somehow.
      - stavros 5y ago
        Oh yes, how could I forget? I will raise it to the board and get back to you.
  - Corrado 5y ago
    You could also convert them to a lower resolution, just to keep the suspense alive.
    - 5y ago

antihero 5y ago

If you don't mind using AWS you can just set up an S3 bucket and a point a CloudFront distro to it (takes <5mins) and then just do upload() { aws s3 cp ${@:2} $1 s3://$BUCKET_NAME echo https://$CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN/$1 | pbcopy }

stavros 5y ago
I do mind.
- the-dude 5y ago
  The Dude minds!
thih9 5y ago
Honestly, so many things could go wrong here. I’m a programmer and I’d have to google how to “do” the above. If anything, this makes me want to sign up for IMGZ. Maybe the above comment should be on IMGZ landing page.
- soulchild37 5y ago
  Dropbox flashbacks anyone, "Why would anyone use dropbox when I can just rsync over"
- stavros 5y ago
  Done!
matkoniecz 5y ago
I am not fine with AWS as there is no way to avoid suprise 30 000 $ payments caused by some bug.
lupire 5y ago
That sounds more annoying than paying $12/yr.

hurflmurfl 5y ago

Can you tell us how many people have tried logging in as you?

stavros 5y ago
Five so far!

zcw100 5y ago

I think I've seen the "where do I put my image files?" in the database or not for about two decades now with no definitive answer. I can't believe someone hasn't come out with a custom database specifically for storing images.

stavros 5y ago
Actually, that'd be great, especially if it could resize/add logos/etc and cache variants.

xmaayy 5y ago

Just commenting because I want to save this post

stavros 5y ago
There's a "save" button, damn.

TwinProduction 5y ago

The pricing page is perfect

climb_stealth 5y ago

Excuse me stavros, this is brilliant. I have no real intention of using the service but I got a subscription because this really cracked me up. I love every little bit of it. Great work! Or maybe I will use it as I have an account now. We shall see.

stavros 5y ago
You should definitely use it for excellence.