Congrats to Disqus guys. Presumably the $10M includes a couple million for the founders to cash out, which is great.<p>They seem to be in a pretty difficult position though. The product is the very definition of a "feature", and one that is most definitely a commodity.<p>Facebook Comments just launched and it's quite well done. Since most people are logged into their FB accounts all the time it means instant commenting with real identities. Exactly what most sites need to increase commenting while maintaining civility.<p>Revenue is also a big problem. Between Facebook Comments and other free competitors there's not much room to charge for pro features or add advertising.<p>I'm a fan, but don't really see how they're going to become a big business in the future to return 5-10x on this $10M.
The numbers I would love to hear are a slight break down of where the uniques/comments/etc come from.<p>Disqus is used on a number of really big sites, some are listed in this blog post (such as RWW and Wired), but there are other massive examples, such as the MLB network of sites.<p>Of the 530m uniques and 35 million disqus-using people, is it a case of x% coming from y% of the websites that have disqus on them, where x is close to 100 and y is close to 0?<p>For example, 750,000 websites use disqus, if you take only the stats from, say, the 50 biggest, what percentage of the 35 million is that? (Replace 50 with any number that turns out more interesting.)<p>Any chance a disqus person might care to share?
congrats guys. i was really upset when techcrunch took you off their website.
i have facebook disconnect, so now i dont go to techcrunch that often because i cant see comments without incognito mode.
HN feature request: Make the color of links I've already read something other than semi-invisible grey. Currently when I'm looking for a link I just clicked on, it takes me a very long time because it's so anti-eye-catching.<p>So, in particular, when I click on a link to read it, then hit back to upvote it and/or comment on it, it takes a long time to re-find it.<p>(Yes, I could open it in a new tab, blah blah.)