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Re:Show HN: A new image sharing service by Veratyr on Monday March 14, 2016 @05:26PM (#11285693)
Out of curiosity, what were the main costs for the services you were involved in? Engineers? CPU for resize/transcoding? Storage? Bandwidth?
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Re:Show HN: A new image sharing service by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday March 14, 2016 @05:30PM (#11285725)
Just the hosting costs. Our costs were pretty low, actually, but it was out of our own pockets and never turned a profit.
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Re:Show HN: A new image sharing service by Veratyr on Monday March 14, 2016 @05:33PM (#11285738)
Were they low enough that they could conceivably be satisfied by donations?

Certainly no startup but a self sustaining, non-commercial image host could be nice.

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Re:Show HN: A new image sharing service by dack on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @12:31AM (#11287464)
I think we need to think about why people might donate. Picture you use a service, it shows you an image... do you think to pull out your credit card and send them money? Why would you with all the other image services out there?

I mean, a few will, but I think you need to create something that actually solves someones problem in a meaningful way (that is unique compared to free services).

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Re:Show HN: A new image sharing service by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday March 14, 2016 @05:37PM (#11285768)
MediaCrush did accept donations and had ads, but the actual donor turnout and ad revenue was pretty pathetic.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150211095158/https://mediacru....

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