Comments on: Room for the second indie?

By: Oliver Nielsen

Oliver Nielsen — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:58:54 +0000

Some ignorant people worship Flickr, instead of celebrating the many choices one has. I for one is happy that 23 provides an alternative to Flickr.

By: polly

polly — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:25:43 +0000

How do these kind of small scale or big scale sites make their money? How would a small scale photo uploading site make money? There are so many free sites – so you would have to be doing something amazing to charge! Is it by means of advertising?

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:37:49 +0000

So there is no way an indie can beat a market leader?

By: Thomas Madsen-Mygdal

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:32:43 +0000

Can i tell you a secret. There’s all ready more than 500 photo sharing sites globally – and most of them was there before flickr.

What the real issue is whether we create open standards that drives the massive centralization in terms of data and perspective that flickr has turned into the other way around.

Separating global photo tag overviews from the product. Separating communities from the product.
Creating common infrastructure that ties together photo sharing from whatever service you wanna use. Decentralization the current perspective bloggers and early adopters have of flickr into lot’s of photo sharing sites, phototag search services and photo groups/communities

The need for photo sharing is huge – and at best flickr is supporting 0,5-1% of the global need.

It’s all about the perspective. This space is very big and differentiated.

And if you dig deeper you’ll see that we’re a lot different from flickr.