Picture Galleries

It's surprising with so many of these 'did I really' sites that this business ever got off the ground! This one wasn't too bad in style, just the idea let it down, or more accurately the timing and my lack of spending to promote the site.

I decided to write a site for myself that would allow people to upload pictures of events such as weddings, births etc and share them with their friends and relatives. There were a few other sites offering similar offerings at the time, so it seemed a good idea and I was able to price it lower than them. But without the know-how to allow people to upload pictures, it was going to be post the pictures to us, we'll resize them and publish them - a lot of hard work.

It could maybe have worked - the look of the site wasn't that bad - but I was very tentative when I pushed it through Google's Adwords and got cold feet after spending a small amount of cash on a few visitors and dropped the idea. It didn't help that at the same time a few free photo services popped up. And how can you compete against a free service with loads of backing?

The site must have been found though - I got plenty of spam (even after the site closed) from national newspapers trying to sell me advertising space for Christmas gift idea sections. Well, someone found it and thought it worth while!

In the end I used the site for some other project, but let the registration lapse.