That was unexpectedly funny. Though, author, you probably shouldn't sensationalize the headline. Its pithy but not even remotely true (or present in the text of your blog post?).
But I love it. The inclusion of the
'But you could simply X' is genuinely great, and the 'our choice' banner on the 'rent the site' payment plan was a nice choice.
Second time seeing this here, I gotta ask the dumb question: Is this an actual service you can pay money to and have host your images, that just happens to be written and designed as total parody?
Has anyone tried subscribing to the ~$1M plan, just for fun?
I don't like those 12-screen TOS, but won't invest my time or money in a public disk store. ( no mean intent. ) I used to read default Fortran scratch files left lying around on a time-share system.
This is anecdotal, but I have heard that I regularly completely forget what I did and visit the site every few months and get a chuckle at some of the details.
I kind of already did a Show HN when it launched, I'm just proud of it and wanted to post it again, but I didn't want to take advantage of the Show HN bump as I didn't actually launch just now.
Thank you! Yes, exactly, I just wanted an easy way to make images public somewhere, and everything else wanted to get eyeballs onto its pages, which made them anti-consumer. I figured that having the customer pay a small fee would actually let me align my incentives with the customers', and here we are.
I want to sign up for this, but I will need at least 150 seats on the "Buy The Site" plan. The per-account pricing at that tier is fine, but I find it frustrating that I'll be forced to register 150 separate accounts on behalf of our AI Browser Automation startup. I don't see an option to select a number of seats at the checkout.
A "Need Something Else? Contact Us" button somewhere would be highly appreciated. Also, a bit of transparency as to when the support is unavailable wouldn't hurt. Great job though, guys!
Word of advice: there is a middle ground between corporate speech and snarky comments. Your pricing is surprisingly snarky. You do you, but I won't pay if I don't feel considered. You are insulting your customers as "cheap ass" for getting the base package, this could easily be avoided.
Thanks for the advice, but I don't really care about getting more customers. I built this for me, plus I think it's cool, so I like showing it to other people and see their (largely amused) reactions.
Have you ever heard of the theory that scammers intentionally add grammatical or spelling errors to their messages? The idea is that it increases the signal to noise ratio of their hits by filtering out people who are more savvy or capable.
Now consider that imgz's language use probably plays a similar role by filtering out users who are more demanding or have higher expectations of the service, particularly concerning support.
Genuine answer: I thought I had to point out where the insults were and what I was talking about instead of being vague. If I had written "you are insulting your customers on your pricing page", someone would have been bitching about not quoting the insult.
But I love it. The inclusion of the 'But you could simply X' is genuinely great, and the 'our choice' banner on the 'rent the site' payment plan was a nice choice.
I hope people get some genuine use out of it.