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You really, really need to let me pay you for this. I'd pay $10/month for this, easily.

Do you allow custom domains?

Aha, thanks for the kind words. I haven't got plans to allow custom domains just yet - but if there's enough demand (which it sounds like there might be), then I won't rule it out.

Custom colors and basic styling would be amazing too. I love the look, but now I'm struggling to find a picture that looks nice with blue and turquoise.

Just so you know, it adds a black and white filter to any image you pick (if that helps - which it may...not).

Hmm, interesting. I'm not seeing this behavior on mine: http://hoverboard.io/blair

Ah - just noticed Firefox doesn't display it in black and white. If you check it out in Chrome/Safari you should see it in black and white (out of interest, which version do you prefer?)

Ahh, I'm sorry. I should have specified I was in Firefox (and should have tried it in Chrome!)

Black and white looks tons better, but I think it would depend on the picture.

I'd like to second the demand for custom domains. Also, love the UI. Fantastic.

Another for custom domains. Perhaps that's a non-scummy way of generating some income. Charge a small fee for the ability to use a custom domain.

Great suggestion Xauronx - keeping it free for the majority to check out I think is huge to keep it growing.

I really like the idea of a paying for a premium feature like a custom URL if you need it.

Custom domains are a make or break feature for me. Looks like you're hosted on Heroku. You could do this pretty easily by setting up their wildcard subdomains feature and allowing me to pick a subdomain which I can map to my own domain with a cname.

I would love to be able to host this on my own server. Even letting me pay say $5 for a .zip of some HTML to put up on my website would be excellent.

I agree. I wouldn't start using it without being able to pay. blairbeckwith, if you are looking for similar services that are paid, checkout Squarespace (http://www.squarespace.com/) and Virb (http://virb.com/). (I don't mean to steal attention away from illdave)

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