Entrepreneurship, technology, building a business.
Hi there!
As an entrepreneur myself (I am the CEO of Imzy) I'm excited to see this community. I've got a good deal of experience in most aspects of startups and will be happy to help this community out in any way I can!
To the future!




Hi! Great to see you here =)
Thanks a lot for making Imzy, it looks amazing!
I think that it will take off and become really huge.
Only with your help!
Tell me, what interests you about startups?
I dream about starting a startup because I think it's the most fun thing I can do with my life)
I've begun my journey only recently(inspired by PG essays), and now I'm mostly just reading books and learning all I can about web development. Hopefully in the future I will come up with some brilliant breakthrough idea =)
Pick a small idea and work on it for a period of time, like 3 months. Just try to get 5 people to use it. I bet a new community like this would be very helpful!
Dan, one question if I may. We all know Reddit is very close to YC. How does it feel going against one of "YC's jewels"? Or more specifically, what's the Bay Area community (Investors, founders, etc.) reacting to the idea?
Cheers and good luck!
Hi, I'm on my phone and have had a few to drink so this won't be as long and (hopefully) eloquent as normal.
The press is going to tell a story because of my past, unfortunately that is not the real story. While there is certainly comparisons to reddit and Imzy, we are trying to do something a lot different. Our idea is ambitious and will take a few years to get to, so we are taking baby steps.
I love reddit, I still spend a lot of time there. I also love YC and consider Sam a friend. I don't see this as a competition and would bet that Steve and Sam would agree. It may seem like one now, I doubt it will in a few months.
There will be overlap, but there always is. I hope you'll stick around here and help us see our ultimate vision!
Also, to be clear, "The Information" journalist ambushed me yesterday. He had not seen the site at the time. TheNextWeb journalist didn't even try to talk to me and still hasn't used the site.
This is just the way the press is, total bummer.
I guess I didn't address your question about investors in SV. Well, back when we raised our seed round we spoke to 3 firms from SV and they all offered term sheets, we ended up working with 2 of them. No one has really known that we have been working on this until ... today, and I have received a few emails from VCs I really admire today.
Ultimately, we need to figure out our product. I think we have a great start and see the press today as more of a distraction than anything.
There always seems to be new places trying to start communities. So far this site looks clean and quite decent. Looking forward to being a part of it.
Apologies for double posting. What I also wanted to add, is that one can become an early member of the community and contribute. Where in a site that is fully established one can easily get lost in the echos of trash.
Welcome!
Hello! Looking forward to seeing how this evolves :)
That didn't work well. But I wanted to show you all the giphy 'pop'
I'll take it :P
Awesome idea!!
Happy to be in from the beginning, I'm sure will see this place growing high in the near future.
Kudos!!
I guess we all get to watch one of the most challenging parts of bootstrapping a social media site: the chicken-and-egg of acquiring users. Dan - can you share anything about your thoughts on strategy? Is there a number of users you have in your head that when reached you will say "OK, this might work"?
Yes this is a challenge for sure. The game is a bit different on a community site than a traditional p2p social media site, and it actually gives us a bit of an advantage. Specifically, all communities have one thing in common - they all are started by a person or a group of people. The people who tend to start communities that grow and go on to success all share some traits and care deeply about their communities. So, at the core of what we do, we are focused on THESE users. If we can build great tools for leaders, THEY will find the users and we will succeed.
The great thing about this is that great community leaders advocate for their community members. They want what is best for the community. So, by working closely with the leaders, we will in turn be working for the community members.
That's not to say we don't work with community members, because we do, a lot. But our focus is clear and so far it is paying off greatly!
There is no specific number to success, but we are watching how communities are growing week over week. We have over 1,400 communities so there are groups of communities that are doing great and groups that are taking longer to get off the ground.