February 19, 2004
Lightbox7.com Public Release
The first public release of Lightbox7.com!
Go register an account and have your friends register ... and have some fun :) YES, TELL YOUR FRIENDS. REGISTER REGISTER.
If you have a Tokki account, this will be replacing Tokki; DISCONTINUE USING TOKKIPROJECT! Lightbox7.com has an import feature that will import all your Tokki galleries to save you a lot of work. There is also a Tabulas gallery import feature.
I'm hoping to beat the living daylights out of some of the other unnamed photohosting sites... the site's still quite young, but it's really stable!
Now I can take a 24 hour break before I get cracking on some of the missing features.
P.S. my lightbox account
Go register an account and have your friends register ... and have some fun :) YES, TELL YOUR FRIENDS. REGISTER REGISTER.
If you have a Tokki account, this will be replacing Tokki; DISCONTINUE USING TOKKIPROJECT! Lightbox7.com has an import feature that will import all your Tokki galleries to save you a lot of work. There is also a Tabulas gallery import feature.
I'm hoping to beat the living daylights out of some of the other unnamed photohosting sites... the site's still quite young, but it's really stable!
Now I can take a 24 hour break before I get cracking on some of the missing features.
P.S. my lightbox account
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MacDaddyTatsu (guest)
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roy
jinshil
1. under Account information documentation (url: http://lightbox7.com/help/?docid=33) is the link "account status" suppose to be your own account status or the help documentation about different accounts types?(as you have linked as "account types" later down the paragraph)
2. while editing an album, under the the 'more options' panel on the left, clicking on 'create presentations' does not take me to the page to actually create the presentation.
roy
kdb003
-Most people don't know how much a service like this should cost. I would suggest minimal features for free accounts in order to promote sales.
-It may be hard to accomidate both new and experienced users. If I were you I would focus on the less experienced ones, because I think they are the ones that would most likely make a purchase.
-As soon as enough money is coming in, I would suggest allowing purchasing methods other than paypal. IMO Paypal only payment looks very unproffessional.
roy
2.) Yes, that is something Im trying to do with the integrated help.
3.) I can't afford merchant accounts yet :/ but eventually i'd like to handle my own CC payments... but you need a few hundred to get the account.
kdb003
If I had made this site and I was thinking of how I could make it profitable, this is what I would do. First I think to myself, hey I have this great site but if everyone who signs up is a free user, how will I make money? Then I realize that sticking advertising on free users sites will serve two purposes. First it will either defray costs or make me profit(example: http://imageshack.us/ is profitable with a simple service and all free users) Second it will make free users who dont like advertising next to their pictures want to update their account. How to implement? Since free users can't template the pages themselves this shouldn't be a problem.
Next I would evaluate the plans. What kind of person has 100 images that require 2gb of bandwidth per month. That is like 20,000 100kb picture loads per month. Shouldn't someone with that much traffic be paying? IMO YES! Then I would look at the prices. Why have such odd numbers as 3 and 9? If it were me I would have 3 plans of 5,10, and 15 dollars a month. If someone values the service the difference in price will not matter much to them. It definitely will matter to you.
If your going to make this project successful moneywise your going to need to stray away from giving things away like at np or tabulas. These types of things are good for building a loyal base of people and traffic off of which you can build more profitable projects.
roy
2.) Bandwidth is not a limitation. The numbers are there simply so that if someone does have massive traffic I can shut them down. I have no intentions of actually tracking bandwidth usage. I pay nothing extra for bandwidth; there's no need to ask people to pay extra for it.
kdb003
I was under the impression that the primary purpose of the site was to make money. Perhaps I was wrong.
Bandwidth may not be a limitation, but things associated with bandwidth are(ie grabbing db info and processing the pages the images are on)
I think you're way too nice.
roy
In any case, I am perhaps too nice =)
kdb003
Anyways, good luck with making money.
transient
So, uhm. Moving right along.
I don't really favor the idea on the templating page where you separate the sections for the HTML. It reminds me a lot of Greymatter which is uh... should I say, annoying? I understand it is rather convenient for beginners but I find it otherwise, since I like one textarea to figure out what I can do so that I can edit the template in one go. Anyway, that's just me.
Other than that, I'm liking it so far. I'll fiddle around with the site more. :)
goDWin