Hey everyone,
I've owned reversegif.com for almost two years now. Its an awesome app that lets you upload and reverse animated gifs. The site is by far the community favorite, and has been pulling in 400k uniques per month steadily for the last two years.<p>Its serves such a niche purpose I don't know where to take it from here. Financially the site performs poorly - barely covering hosting on a month to month basis. But I want to utilize the traffic and add more features that would bring the community value but I dont know where to go from here.<p>Thoughts?
Are your uniques coming from page views, or just image views?<p>If people are actually viewing the pages, there's a lot you can do to increase revenue.<p>If they're just linking hosted gifs directly, though, that's a harder problem.
You have one ad position right now that I can see. Increase that so you can cover hosting without problems. Maybe allow people to pay an annual fee to remove ads and have more storage space or whatever.
Ask the community for feedback.
I think adding a "don't reverse" checkbox while against the whole point could make people host their gifs there, even if they don't want it reverted.
You should email me tom at buysellads.com<p>We help thousands of pubs sell self serve ads to contextually relevant advertisers.<p>We are also bootstrapped and love indie pubs.
I think you can monetize it more than the hosting costs. More ads, better positioned.<p>Ahh, but your traffic is all from reddit, so maybe not. Damn adblockers.