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140 Characters? Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth (YC S09)
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- billclerico 17y agoi love the site, but the real congrats are on the traction. the numbers speak for themselves.
- jmtame 17y agoif you meet the founders, ask to see all of their business cards. one of the coolest things i've ever seen.
- quizbiz 17y agocare to explain? pictures?
- c3o 17y agoWhy is the data on all the traffic stats sites so far off for them? I know those sites are hardly accurate, but my own startup with significantly less than 1M uniques shows at least as equal to dailybooth.com (and more often than not towers above them) on all of Compete/Alexa/Google Trends/Quantcast, even though their graph published on TC claims >3M. Is there maybe something about the Twitter integration that those sites can't track?
- mr_bill 17y agoIs this another startup where most of the growth comes from people sharing porn?
- dannyr 17y agodid you browse the site? i didn't see any NSFW pictures there.
- axod 17y agoBetter add some quick so it's monetizable ;)
- sho 17y agoWhat exactly is wrong with people sharing porn?
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoIf they get kids sexting over it then they could be held for having indecent images of a minor and for distribution of same.
- sho 17y agoWouldn't the normal laws governing user-uploaded content protect them, though? As long as they were at least somewhat responsive deleting offending content when it was reported, of course.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoThey can argue they're a common carrier, sure, but I don't think that's going to fend off the police from seizing their servers and it might not get them through court either.
- omouse 17y agofucking TechCrunch and all its Twitter-related trash. Fuck you MG Siegler for not switching subjects once in a while :/
- sho 17y agoI will never get over what a weird name "Daily Booth" is. Booth!?
- electronslave 17y agoYeah, booth. Like a photo booth. Not like John Wilkes.
- sho 17y agoI guess the point I was trying to make was that "photo booth" is far from the first word association that comes to mind when I hear "booth". The first would be a table at a restaurant; the second would be a phone booth. Whenever I hear the name I am confused and have to remember what it is. The mental concept that springs to mind upon hearing the phrase "daily booth" is, maybe, someone who visits the same restaurant every day, and insists on sitting in the same spot. Or maybe it's the blog of someone who posts a picture of a different phone booth every day. The idea it has anything to do with photos is kind of this late "oh yeah" arrival. Anyway, whatever, what do I know, I also think youtube is an utterly ridiculous name...
- sho 17y agoOXFORD Collocations Dictionary booth (noun) ADJ. phone, photo, polling, ticket, voting PREP. in a/the ~ She waited in the phone booth.
- greyman 17y agoPhotobooth isn't a terribly bad name, but this service deserve something shorter and funnier. Youtube? That I think is a great name, instantly rememberable and fitting to the service.
- whughes 17y agoPhoto Booth is also the name of the built-in Mac OS X webcam demo app, which is probably known to a lot of their users. I would think of a ticket booth, too, but frankly I think the "daily" part is the weak link here. It's not engaging like the You in YouTube.
- tetsuo13 17y agoDirect link to site without the TechCrunch article: http://dailybooth.com/ http://dailybooth.com/ In Chrome, the front page has many broken images, the live map page is blank other than a caption at the bottom-left, and viewing the site's blog via the link at the bottom produces an error about an invalid user.
- windsurfer 17y agoIn Firefox, you get a different interface if you use 3.0 compared to 3.5
- wmeredith 17y agoNice sign-up form. Big fields, good contrast.
- access_denied 17y agoI second that.
- misterbwong 17y agoCool site. The idea seems so simple (not a bad thing) and it looks like it's gaining lots of traction. I don't know that I'd become a part of the network, but I can see the appeal. Does anyone know what idea this YC group started with? I get the feeling this startup is of the "bite off a small piece of a bigger problem" type and that it will grow into its original intention over time.
- suvike 17y agoI believe Jon & Co. were working on DailyBooth for some time before YC (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479352 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479352). I'm not sure if/how YC changed their focus/strategy, though.
- wyw 17y agoWhat kind of storage costs would they be paying for all that binary data? I'm guessing they're using Amazon Simple Storage, which is not expensive, but in that kind of volume I'm sure it adds up. Great idea, though. Thumbs up and best of luck.
- run4yourlives 17y agoI wonder what the monetization strategy is. Can anyone share anything?
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoLooks like a free-volume system. They give it away and make up the short fall by volume ;0)>
- paul9290 17y agoGreat site/idea. Should be huge. Twitter and Facebook statuses now seem stale to me! cheers
- Tichy 17y agoI must admit I would never have guessed that that kind of thing would be worthwhile to implement. Kudos and good luck to DailyBooth.