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host - I'm 2 weeks in, continue?

21 points by hornbaker 15y ago

hornbaker 15y ago
OP here, just wanting some honest feedback on whether Bumb.ly has legs. It's been a fun little project.
Rantenki 15y ago
Definitely has the potential to be popular among the lolcats crowd (or anybody that likes computers _and_ scrapbooking). What is the revenue stream?
- hornbaker 15y ago
  > What is the revenue stream? None yet... I'll figure that out if enough people find it useful. Probably along the lines of selling virtual and physical merchandise with Bumblies on them. Physical postcards are a real possibility - I'll probably ask Brezina if he'll do a Sincerely deal with a web app. I'd like to avoid advertising and keep the site clean and fast. Quickmeme has ridiculous traffic, and Memegenerator and Memebase aren't far behind. I wanted Bumbly to have a more sophisticated tone, and hopefully appeal to the female / BlueMountainArts / Pinterest crowd.
andrewfelix 15y ago
I want to be positive and say continue. It works well, it probably has a niche market somewhere. But, I think you're going to have an uphill battle getting a big enough audience using it to create any kind of a revenue stream. The UI and tech looks and works great, and has other applications. Have you considered what else you could use it for? Possibly extending the functionality further?
- hornbaker 15y ago
  > Have you considered what else you could use it for? Not too much – it's just been a side project to explore what's possible with client-side photo editing and uploading. If anyone has ideas they'd like to take offline, email bumblyapp at gmail.
marquis 15y ago
Really nice but for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to edit the text? Also I loaded an URL that was an incorrect filetype by mistake and couldn't select*all the text in the URL field to delete it. Just a small thing..
- hornbaker 15y ago
  Thanks for the feedback!
atomicdog 15y ago
This could revolutionise the generation of meme-images...

21 points by hornbaker 15y ago

OP here, just wanting some honest feedback on whether Bumb.ly has legs. It's been a fun little project.

Definitely has the potential to be popular among the lolcats crowd (or anybody that likes computers _and_ scrapbooking). What is the revenue stream?

hornbaker 15y ago
> What is the revenue stream? None yet... I'll figure that out if enough people find it useful. Probably along the lines of selling virtual and physical merchandise with Bumblies on them. Physical postcards are a real possibility - I'll probably ask Brezina if he'll do a Sincerely deal with a web app. I'd like to avoid advertising and keep the site clean and fast. Quickmeme has ridiculous traffic, and Memegenerator and Memebase aren't far behind. I wanted Bumbly to have a more sophisticated tone, and hopefully appeal to the female / BlueMountainArts / Pinterest crowd.

andrewfelix 15y ago

I want to be positive and say continue. It works well, it probably has a niche market somewhere. But, I think you're going to have an uphill battle getting a big enough audience using it to create any kind of a revenue stream. The UI and tech looks and works great, and has other applications. Have you considered what else you could use it for? Possibly extending the functionality further?

hornbaker 15y ago
> Have you considered what else you could use it for? Not too much – it's just been a side project to explore what's possible with client-side photo editing and uploading. If anyone has ideas they'd like to take offline, email bumblyapp at gmail.

marquis 15y ago

Really nice but for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to edit the text? Also I loaded an URL that was an incorrect filetype by mistake and couldn't select*all the text in the URL field to delete it. Just a small thing..

hornbaker 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback!

atomicdog 15y ago

This could revolutionise the generation of meme-images...