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with all the lamenting about how hard running a consumer photo service is, I wonder how imgur does it. their traffic must be insane, and they have no subscriber
by phreeza 13y ago
with all the lamenting about how hard running a consumer photo service is, I wonder how imgur does it. their traffic must be insane, and they have no subscribers, so how come they can do it and these relatively upmarket services can't?
- dreamdu5t 13y agobecause imgur was focused on making a product people valued from day one while Everpix was focused on VCs, offices, hiring, blog writing, etc.
- simonw 13y agoEverpix's product was loved by their users. They absolutely built "something people want". Unfortunately the promise they made their users was very expensive to deliver.
- bertil 13y agoImgur is financed by advertising, and they offer pro accounts, admittedly subscribed by a sliver of users only. Revenue per user are orders of magnitude lower than for a for-pay service, but they have far more users. Their servers (and costs) are optimised to serve a limited amount of photo fast, host a little more and serve them not so fast; they most likely have far less photos, at far lower resolutions, than Everpix who hosts entire shooting sets for pro-am photographers.