Goldy

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by Goldy 16y ago
Good ideas - thanks! Re limiting the number of searches - I'm concerned that people may just register throwaway accounts to get the free searches (and thus never paying). I could use cookies or IP smarts to counteract this, but it doesn't s
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by Goldy 16y ago
Good point - I've hacked up a brief description in the sidebar.
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by Goldy 16y ago
To be honest, I don't know how to get revenue in the long term. What I want to do is to break even so I can justify investing more effort. I would love Sprixi to be free and then money around the edges (e.g. API). However, that will require
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by Goldy 16y ago
Hopefully a little inspiration for anyone else in the same boat.
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by Goldy 16y ago
I do like that idea. Being bootstrapped I needed to be a bit more direct with getting revenue from the majority of the traffic visiting us in the short term. What do you think of our very lightweight freemium model? (Searching for dog or ca
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Show HN: Relaunching a dormant startup and switching from free to paid(thirstyminds.com.au)
22 points by Goldy 16y ago|18 comments
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by Goldy 17y ago
You are correct. It pulls images on the fly from flickr (more sites to come). Two word searches are not very successful at the moment. Of course feel free to copy images from "wallet" to "leather wallet". Though you need to register to d
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by Goldy 17y ago
Thanks. Currently it only uses Flickr, OpenClipArt and uploaded images. So it's not exactly a crawling search engine as such, more a search tool. Frankly I'm not interesting in indexing millions of images, I only want the useful ones! I do
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by Goldy 17y ago
No. Currently Sprixi shows CC commercial-ok licences and public-domain-like licences. So CC-BY images are indeed shown, but there are no filters to hide the others. It's on my to do list :)
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by Goldy 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback truebosko. I agree it's not ideal and I'm playing around with various ways to solve it. I think a combination of community rating and moderation will be the long term solution.
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New image search engine - with a focus on image use.(nagellen.com)
26 points by Goldy 17y ago|12 comments
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by Goldy 17y ago
Thanks Tim for the review! I'm the founder of Sprixi - would love to hear what you guys think.
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Image search startup - beta feedback welcome(sprixi.com)
2 points by Goldy 17y ago|0 comments