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I've seen your other projects from years ago, e.g. your bookmarks site. I think you have great ideas and skill. I appreciate the effort towards being no bullshit. May I suggest a no-BS approach that replaces highly subjective humor with a copy that focuses on (hopefully also no-bullshit) aspects like

  1. clearly stating how you gonna scale image delivery
  2. clearly stating how you store files
  3. clearly stating how you're financially sustainable

I love businesses with personality. It's just hard to do good humor. This humor reminds me of a 20yo me in college, a time when my sense of narcissism was way outperforming my sense of good taste.

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> clearly stating [...]

I don't think #1 and #2 are of interest to users, all the users care about is when they type "imgz.org/myimage.png" the image loads. #3 should be rather clear from the fact that you have to pay, hopefully.

> This humor reminds me of a 20yo me in college, a time when my sense of narcissism was way outperforming my sense of good taste.

Thank you, that's exactly what I was going for!

That kind of humor and response is off putting to me as a potential customer. It gives me the impression that either this website is a bit of joke, or that it's not really meant for people like me (that don't 'get' that kind of humor).

That's fine if that's what you're going for, it's up to you. But FYI you'll lose some customers over it, maybe more than you'd gain.

Yeah, I'm aware of that, but I'm not terribly serious about this being a viable business and I want that to come across. I made this because I wanted something like it, and I'm opening it up to people to use with me, with the understanding that it's not meant to be a Real Business(TM).

If it super blows up and has the potential to put food on the table, I might reconsider, but I don't think it's ever going to be more than a small group of happy users.

You're suggesting turning it into a bullshit image host.

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