Congrats with shipping again @levelsio! Don't think you'll get away with shipping Gifbook's the next months instead of launching products ;-)
I knew i saw this before. Apparently Gifprint.com has been doing this for a while now. This will probably prove again that execution is key. Site looks neat and easy to use. Optimising for mobile is golden, especially for the mobile using GIF addicts. It's probably interesting to experiment with advertising on GIF-goldmines like Reddit, 9GAG, etc. Any plans for that?
@woutervanlent Thanks Wouter :) GifPrint.com is awesome, but they don't actually ship the flip book.
I don't really like advertising early on, rather see natural growth. I do think it'd be smart to partner up with sites like 9GAG, Giphy etc. to supply them with this for re-selling.
@levelsio Ah! Good catch! Thought they also shipped.
Can imagine that you prefer natural growth, but over time it could be interesting to see if the advertising is profitable. Although partnerships could also be a good angle. Let's see who wants to jump in! :)
@Jonnotie ... Are you saying the platform has an unhealthy obsession with GIFs? We could even start with just http://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/ or a similar community.... Could be fun.
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I think this is a cool idea (and I love GIFs), but you may want to check your landing page... there's one GIF of some weird porn on there right up top involving a woman and two "pterodactyl men". Kind of a turn off when you see it....
Cool idea and inspiration. @levelsio what do you do about copyright infringement? E.g. most photo printing services won't let you print other people's IP - or are you not worrying about that yet?
I'm always interested in @levelsio's projects. Wired wrote a great piece, This Guy Is Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months (I like that they called you "this guy" in the headline, lol).
Here are his previous products, hunted on PH:
- NomadList - The best cities to live and work remotely
- Play My Inbox - Stream the music that's in your inbox
- Tubelytics - The real-time analytics dashboard for YouTube
- Go Fucking Do It - Set a deadline and a price. If you fail, you pay.
P.S. apparently I made a cameo on GifBook's homepage. Ha!
Yay! So nice to be on here again @rrhoover. Too long ago :) My 12 projects are going pretty well, although I was heavily delayed by Nomad List taking off so much and all the attention it got. Now back to shipping :)
@gregoiregilbert, I built this as a fun project and since I haven't seen anyone do it before yet. Here's my write up on why/how I built it, not very complex but still some work: https://levels.io/gifbook-the-an...
This seems trivial, but if this works and you can extend it into printing Vine's, YouTube videos etc. you can grow it into something. Like what Social Print Studio did with Printstagram.
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