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I just want to add in my experience in this field and using Filepicker.io as a service: We spent the better part of two weeks introducing inline images into ou

• bunkat 14y ago
  BidKat actually used a very similar model in our MVP - users would upload images to imgur and then copy and paste the link to add the image to their auction. We had the same results, nobody had any idea how to use it or even what we were talking about. We looked at Filepicker.io but just couldn't justify the cost. I also had a hard time putting a core part of our business in the hands of somebody else. We see it too often where you take a hard dependency like this and then the service either goes down or worse, gets acqui-hired. We now just use a simple link the user clicks on to add an image from their computer which then gets processed and uploaded to S3. Took me about 1/2 a day to code up and my monthly cost is about $1.50. I admit it isn't fancy. We don't have drag and drop, you can't add images from Dropbox or Facebook directly, but it works for us and our customers.
  • jc4p 14y ago
    For us the cost is definitely worth it. We're a Fitness social network and there are a lot of groups on the site dedicated to talking about meals, you have no idea how many people use the Filepicker functionality to cross-post instagram pictures of their food.
  • ananddass 14y ago
    We plan to be around. There are investors and customers who would hate to see us end up with the outcomes you listed. So we plan on pushing forward hard on product and market. As regards your comment on pricing...would love to learn about the elements of the pricing structure that was unfavorable to your context. This is valuable feedback. I am adass[at]filepicker.io
    • bunkat 14y ago
      Everyone plans to be around :) The fact is that if some company decided to hand you $500 mil to acquire you and shut down Filepicker.io you would (and you should!). In terms of the price, it really came down to the integration. I want everything on my site to look fully integrated. I couldn't justify spending $500 a month to achieve this with Filepicker.io when I could do it myself for $1.50 a month for a good enough solution.
• Too 14y ago
  I have similar experience but from the other end. I have a service similar to imgur. Quite different but for the sake of conversations lets pretend they are the same. You can create content, then save it and get a link to copy-paste into another site. I have tons of traffic from both the landing page and directly to the creation- and save-page. Most users do save their content for embedding but there is hardly any traffic from the embed-links given to the users. It's not that other people don't click the links, even the thumbnails have comparatively low traffic. This means that most people save their work but they don't know what to do with it later, they simply don't understand why they are given a unique url and that it can be pasted into another site. Googling for my links also shows that the ratio of published links out of all saved links is very low.
  • bunkat 14y ago
    Yeah, imgur makes money because it is basically 99% Reddit traffic. I'm surprised that they are still two different companies...