140 Characters? Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth (YC S09)

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/18/140-characters-thats-a-lot-of-writing-just-post-a-picture-on-dailybooth/

by suvike • 17 years ago

61 36 17 years ago

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billclerico• 17 years ago

i love the site, but the real congrats are on the traction. the numbers speak for themselves.

jmtame• 17 years ago

if you meet the founders, ask to see all of their business cards. one of the coolest things i've ever seen.

quizbiz• 17 years ago

care to explain? pictures?

c3o• 17 years ago

Why 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• 17 years ago

Is this another startup where most of the growth comes from people sharing porn?

dannyr• 17 years ago

did you browse the site? i didn't see any NSFW pictures there.

axod• 17 years ago

Better add some quick so it's monetizable ;)

sho6• 17 years ago

What exactly is wrong with people sharing porn?

pbhjpbhj4• 17 years ago

If they get kids sexting over it then they could be held for having indecent images of a minor and for distribution of same.

omouse• 17 years ago

fucking TechCrunch and all its Twitter-related trash. Fuck you MG Siegler for not switching subjects once in a while :/

sho6• 17 years ago

I will never get over what a weird name "Daily Booth" is. Booth!?

electronslave• 17 years ago

Yeah, booth. Like a photo booth. Not like John Wilkes.

sho6• 17 years ago

I 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...

breck• 17 years ago

I like the name a lot. I don't remember if I liked it at first. But now I clearly get the association with photo booth(and the reference to all of those 1 picture a day for 7 years youtube videos).

pbhjpbhj4• 17 years ago

Me too, plus the "Daily" part reminds you you're supposed to keep going back.

Must be a regional thing, on seeing the name photographs was the first thing that came to mind - perhaps it's cause I can't afford to eat out at posh restaurants??

tetsuo13• 17 years ago

Direct link to site without the TechCrunch article: 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• 17 years ago

In Firefox, you get a different interface if you use 3.0 compared to 3.5

wmeredith• 17 years ago

Nice sign-up form. Big fields, good contrast.

access_denied• 17 years ago

I second that.

misterbwong• 17 years ago

Cool 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• 17 years ago

I believe Jon & Co. were working on DailyBooth for some time before YC (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479352). I'm not sure if/how YC changed their focus/strategy, though.

jedc• 17 years ago

It was definitely up and running before he applied to YC.

Since then he's also launched a music startup, but I'm guessing that's not part of YC. (Can't remember the URL, though.)

wyw• 17 years ago

What 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• 17 years ago

I wonder what the monetization strategy is. Can anyone share anything?

pbhjpbhj4• 17 years ago

Looks like a free-volume system. They give it away and make up the short fall by volume ;0)>

paul9290• 17 years ago

Great site/idea. Should be huge. Twitter and Facebook statuses now seem stale to me!

cheers

Tichy• 17 years ago

I must admit I would never have guessed that that kind of thing would be worthwhile to implement. Kudos and good luck to DailyBooth.

140 Characters? Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth (YC S09)

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