- Setup a deal with flipclips.com (or someone similar) and let people purchase a branded flickbook of a period of their lives.
- Maybe potential for some kind of picwing.com affiliate deal / application.
- Some kind of "pro" account with more features (more picture widget output options etc).
- Display advertising (yeah, know).
They're a few ideas I'm toying with.
People will buy these not just for their own safekeeping, but for grandmas, to keep for future generations, and so forth.
Actually, mentioning such a product could even get slightly less netheady people to even use your service. You want the comfortably-off soccer moms, grandparents, and so forth, using this product. Can you imagine how awesome it'd be to have had a DVD of a year or two of your grandpa? Big selling factor in here.
I would take it nice and slow. Wait until you have some serious users who have put a lot of time into the app. Obviously you and your friends have to catalyse that, looks like you already are which is good. Once you've got some nice multi-month videos to show, and perfecting all the little niggly bits about working with it (which YOU will be doing), try to get some publicity. It would be really helpful if you know some girls who will do it, your digg/reddit/etc-fu will be greatly increased if it's a girl.
Anyway, then start introducing new options. Pro members can get better quality video out - free is just the flash video, pro gets a full on quicktime version. Free has one "stream", pro can have several - they might want to do their cat or family members or something. Free can embed the flash output on their blog, Pro can embed the picture taking app on their website and make a "my blog visitors" stream .. or something.
Pro is $20 once off fee. Get a bit of press exposure and who knows, it could really take off. The Pro account taking pics of their families sounds like it could have real potential. Maybe a family package deal - $50 for a year of photos including a printed book?
Anyway congratulations on the launch, many people don't know how hard it is to take a decently sized project from idea to fully realised implementation and release. It's fucking hard and even more so if you're running on nothing but your own internal motivation. Good shit and well done.
I don't like ads either, but we (who actually care enough to e.g. install ad block+) are a minority.
You need money. Advertisement might help and it will only repulse a relatively small portion of the population.
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Try them out, and see if they work, and see if your users find them useful, or horrible.
Also do the maths - how many Pro accounts would you need to sell to make the same amount as sticking a couple of adverts up?
Wow, that excludes a pretty large portion of the internet. No Google, no Yahoo, no online newspapers, not many 'blogs'...