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Can a Mobile-Rookie Founder Crack The Image Sharing Space With Imgfave (YC S12)?

54 points by stevewillows 14y ago

ianstallings 14y ago
Having competition is a good sign, it means there is a market for your wares. The question will be implementation. In the app store there are many clones, but the polished ones stand above. Good luck!
laberge 14y ago
This is sort of like Pintrest with less famine undertones. I kind of like it, it's got a little 9Gag in it without being annoying too.
- sliverstorm 14y ago
  Famine undertones? There's far too much food on Pintrest for that.
  - jlees 14y ago
    Either a misspelling of feminine or referring to the thinspiration bannings: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/pinterest-thinspiration-content-banned_n_1380484.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/pinterest-thinspira...
  - laberge 14y ago
    Oh man, that was a really good/bad spelling mistake.
brador 14y ago
Profitable? Really? With ads from a Reddit type userbase? Or am I missing something?
karamazov 14y ago
When I first saw Imgfave, I dismissed as just another image sharing site, but decided to check it out anyway. Half an hour later I was still scrolling through the pictures.
- mthmohan 14y ago
  yeah me too.. thot i'd spend a couple of min to check it out..
  - stephengillie 14y ago
    I don't like the site, and I think it'll fizzle quickly. I'm always incorrect when I feel this way...
    - dogan 14y ago
      The app is particularly addictive if you have time on your hands, you can just keep browsing.
      - stephengillie 14y ago
        I tried browsing for a few minutes, but I got bored quickly. Pretty much I'm convinced the site & app will be successful. :)
dinkumthinkum 14y ago
I don't know about you guys but I think I'm all shared out of images. Cute or funny images with captions ... I get it but at this point why is this better than the Wal-mart culture we all so rage against?
- samstave 14y ago
  Agree - but never underestimate the power of the Toys-R-Us biz model: new, young, naive people are the worlds only true renewable resource. As each wave of people mature into your target market... you have a steady stream of people who like your stuff. Even if it is plastic crap from china or digital crap from silicon valley. This alone will be what keeps facebook afloat - the kids, and the desire of their familial connections to attempt to keep tabs of their lives. Is it insanely profitable? No, we've realized that in the last few months - is it sustainable, yes. But even moreso, its cancerous to freedom... Anyway - apps and services like this will be a never ending wave.
  - Xcelerate 14y ago
    That reminds me a lot of this comic: http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/
napillo 14y ago
Sure it's entirely possible. Flickr wasn't the first, it was one of the first successful ones. Same thing with myspace, hotmail, etc - first mover isn't much of an advantage at all, despite what people think. Even if there are already well established players, you can join the market and even overtake them.
moron 14y ago
Maybe! My wife loves the site and spends a good amount of time there. Personally, I don't understand why the images' titles/captions never seem to match up to the image itself. Like, I just checked, and there was an image called "want to be a skinny bitch", but the image was a photo of a closet full of shoes.
alttab 14y ago
I took a look! But it seems the target market is teenage girls. Maybe I need to configure it, but why? Between reddit, imgur, pinterest... Really what's the difference? How many profitable image sharing apps can the world actually support? I'll admit I didn't spend much time on the site (simply because all the images I saw were of cute boys) but I failed to see the differentiator or innovation. What's the original idea here?

54 points by stevewillows 14y ago

Having competition is a good sign, it means there is a market for your wares. The question will be implementation. In the app store there are many clones, but the polished ones stand above. Good luck!

laberge 14y ago

This is sort of like Pintrest with less famine undertones. I kind of like it, it's got a little 9Gag in it without being annoying too.

sliverstorm 14y ago
Famine undertones? There's far too much food on Pintrest for that.
- jlees 14y ago
  Either a misspelling of feminine or referring to the thinspiration bannings: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/pinterest-thinspiration-content-banned_n_1380484.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/pinterest-thinspira...
- laberge 14y ago
  Oh man, that was a really good/bad spelling mistake.

brador 14y ago

Profitable? Really? With ads from a Reddit type userbase? Or am I missing something?

karamazov 14y ago

When I first saw Imgfave, I dismissed as just another image sharing site, but decided to check it out anyway. Half an hour later I was still scrolling through the pictures.

mthmohan 14y ago
yeah me too.. thot i'd spend a couple of min to check it out..
- stephengillie 14y ago
  I don't like the site, and I think it'll fizzle quickly. I'm always incorrect when I feel this way...
  - dogan 14y ago
    The app is particularly addictive if you have time on your hands, you can just keep browsing.
    - stephengillie 14y ago
      I tried browsing for a few minutes, but I got bored quickly. Pretty much I'm convinced the site & app will be successful. :)

dinkumthinkum 14y ago

I don't know about you guys but I think I'm all shared out of images. Cute or funny images with captions ... I get it but at this point why is this better than the Wal-mart culture we all so rage against?

samstave 14y ago
Agree - but never underestimate the power of the Toys-R-Us biz model: new, young, naive people are the worlds only true renewable resource. As each wave of people mature into your target market... you have a steady stream of people who like your stuff. Even if it is plastic crap from china or digital crap from silicon valley. This alone will be what keeps facebook afloat - the kids, and the desire of their familial connections to attempt to keep tabs of their lives. Is it insanely profitable? No, we've realized that in the last few months - is it sustainable, yes. But even moreso, its cancerous to freedom... Anyway - apps and services like this will be a never ending wave.
- Xcelerate 14y ago
  That reminds me a lot of this comic: http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/

napillo 14y ago

Sure it's entirely possible. Flickr wasn't the first, it was one of the first successful ones. Same thing with myspace, hotmail, etc - first mover isn't much of an advantage at all, despite what people think. Even if there are already well established players, you can join the market and even overtake them.

moron 14y ago

Maybe! My wife loves the site and spends a good amount of time there. Personally, I don't understand why the images' titles/captions never seem to match up to the image itself. Like, I just checked, and there was an image called "want to be a skinny bitch", but the image was a photo of a closet full of shoes.

alttab 14y ago

I took a look! But it seems the target market is teenage girls. Maybe I need to configure it, but why? Between reddit, imgur, pinterest... Really what's the difference? How many profitable image sharing apps can the world actually support? I'll admit I didn't spend much time on the site (simply because all the images I saw were of cute boys) but I failed to see the differentiator or innovation. What's the original idea here?