imgur is a great service, but theirs is not really the kind of example an aspiring bootstrapper can follow. "become the defacto image platform for reddit" make

imgur is a great service, but theirs is not really the kind of example an aspiring bootstrapper can follow. "become the defacto image platform for reddit" makes you an outlier in the bootstrapping world I think. I think it's just much more useful to look at examples where the model is reusable - make B2B software for a specific market, and charge money for it.