I build image hosting service which was 'great' for it's time (2006) called Image Socket (http://www.imagesocket.com http://www.imagesocket.com). It became ext

I build image hosting service which was 'great' for it's time (2006) called Image Socket (http://www.imagesocket.com http://www.imagesocket.com). It became extremely successful in just a few days due to support from another (popular at the time) web site called SomethingAwful. Alternatives at the time sucked. Unfortunately I failed to pivot it into something that does not rely exclusively on one or two popular web sites as it's source of traffic. Congrats to Imgur for jumping on Reddit early and a becoming somewhat independent at this point. It's funny that I had an opportunity to compete with them because my site was already build and widely utilized when Reddit came out but I never imaged that Reddit would blow up so fast and by the time it did, competing with Imgur was impossible.