Your pricing page is a delight

https://imgz.org/money/

> Paying us money doesn't entitle you to anything except owning less money

Brilliant

Even the terms are great.

"Where was I"

https://imgz.org/help/terms/

Maybe charge $1/month for MVP sarcasm.

It looked interesting at first but now I'm confused, is this a joke project?

Yes and no.

Agreed. It's delightfully funny without going overboard, or being too cheesy like most bigger companies who try to be cheeky.

I'm signing up.

The trick is to actually not care about whether people buy your stuff! Hard to pull off when you're trying to make money, but easy for me.

While that may be true, you actually seem to have genuine talent for comedy. I'm inclined to pay for IMGZ for that reason alone, even though I may never really use it.

My favorite kind of user <3

I pay for SourceHut, not because i get a lot of value from the service, but as a way of funding Drew DeVault's crazy ranting.

It is quite great, I agree.

But in all seriousness, so you have an actual privacy policy and such? I like the pricing and do have images I need to host!

No, unfortunately not. I can give you an informal one, that I will not sell/give away/etc your data, won't track you, etc. I also only use CloudFlare, so your data only goes through them.

If your site ever get hacked, we will never know if its your sarcasm OR it is truly hacked :)

Browsing imgz felt like watching a fun movie, I love the architecture too ( ... we dont have this...LOL )

BTW, I am (Maybe I should say WE are) also building a image hosting service. https://host.pics (Pre-Alpha)

Haha, thank you!

Now pay.

You sir, gave me a good laugh. Kudos.

I would have giggled slightly more if you had "MOST POPULAR" instead of "OUR CHOICE" on the "BUY THE SITE" option.

The fact that "Our Choice" is also definitely true though made me laugh a second time.

> The server doesn't have that much space don't get this

Oh Em Eff Gee xD xD xD

This website is great, I have no use for an image sharing site but in tempted to sign up just to help see it become successful. And behind all the humor there is actually a very sensible concept: pay a reasonable amount of money to get an actual service and not some ad infested crap. Also I love

> If you're expecting professionalism, call Oracle and ask for a quote of Oracle Advanced Image Sharing for Hadoop or whatever crap they sell

I'm dying. It is a gift that keeps on giving. The blog has me in tears.

That architecture.

https://imgz.org/i9hxfgRu-1280.png

Cloudflare Free Caching, T2, the only thing we have and it is not even on AWS.

This is one of the greatest pieces of website comedy I have ever seen.

> Let's talk money. As you may have noticed from the subtle but effective messaging, this service isn't free. That's because we want to avoid having to sell photos of your vagina to shady Russian oligarchs to pay for our servers and cocaine.

You weren't kidding. Amazing.

Thanks! Check out the blog, we're innovating.

Your architecture page is an inspiration to me.

Would you like a job maintaining our Hadoop cluster? We pay per node.

I would make you guys sooo distributed.

The meme marketing is funny, but the meme license is less so. Would you consider using a more well-known and established license? The Parity license looks like Open Source/Free Software, but it also looks very vague and difficult to interpret, and has not been evaluated by the OSI or FSF, which makes it needlessly difficult to comply with, or to do things like make packages or contributions or derivative works. If you want copyleft, consider the GPL family, or MPL?

I didn't mean it as a meme license, but I might change it to something like the GPL 3 or AGPL, thanks!

Cheers!

We feel personally attacked at our startup by some of the stuff you wrote on your blog especially the thing about writing in plural

I love your marketing patter! Cracking up reading some of this.

If I end up stealing your style for something, I owe you a beer.

If you steal my style, I'm coming for you.

Great! Now I don't have to worry about how I'm getting that beer to you.

> We have CDNs and Rust and all that fast crap.

Lol! Haven't used the service, but the website is fun.

The marketing style reminds me of the people offering to pirate their VST Plugins right form their web-site if you don't want to pay.

The plugins and the web-site are also crazy as shit! Take a look:

https://freakshowindustries.com/

I love this. The "steal" button is inspired, wow.

In case you didn't see it: They explain the reasoning behind the "steal button" in the FAQ and on the About page.

I saw that, I love their reasoning.

True art. Like your project! :-)

Love stuff like that. Thanks again for making me smile. I appreciate that.

This is fucking cool!