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

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

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

care to explain? pictures?

All photos from DailyBooth printed via Moo.com. One of the best ways to carry a pitch deck I've ever seen.

http://dailybooth.com/blog/?p=160

They feature their users' pics at the back of each business card.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.)

moof.com

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

I second that.

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.

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

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

cheers

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

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

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...

OXFORD Collocations Dictionary

booth (noun)

ADJ. phone, photo, polling, ticket, voting

PREP. in a/the ~ She waited in the phone booth.

Photobooth isn't a terribly bad name, but this service deserve something shorter and funnier.

Youtube? That I think is a great name, instantly rememberable and fitting to the service.

Photo Booth is also the name of the built-in Mac OS X webcam demo app, which is probably known to a lot of their users. I would think of a ticket booth, too, but frankly I think the "daily" part is the weak link here. It's not engaging like the You in YouTube.

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).

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??

"Must be a regional thing"

Yeah, probably, always is. Whereas I literally have to imagine what they even mean by "photo booth", I don't think I've ever actually seen a dedicated "booth" for photos. Unless they mean like those vending machines? I've never seen one of them in Australia but have seen them in Japan.

Anyway as long as their target market gets it - and they seem to, judging by the positive messages here - it's fine.

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

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

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

Better add some quick so it's monetizable ;)

What exactly is wrong with people sharing porn?

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

Wouldn't the normal laws governing user-uploaded content protect them, though? As long as they were at least somewhat responsive deleting offending content when it was reported, of course.

They can argue they're a common carrier, sure, but I don't think that's going to fend off the police from seizing their servers and it might not get them through court either.

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