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SynthaSite

Pitch Posted: August 22, 2008
Rating: 2.73
Votes: 101 37

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Ron Dawes 8/23/08 8:59AM #

Any you make money how?

Vinny Lingham 8/25/08 2:4PM #

Good question Ron. We have the following revenue model: 1. Selling Domain names 2. Providing premium services (especially to small businesses) 3. Integrating with 3rd parties who offer us a bounty for signing up new users (we already have such deals in place) 4. Creating and advertising network around the user generated content (opt in for content creators) 5. Creating a template marketplace where designers can sell their custom design to our growing user base (we would take a cut). We have those, and many more ideas around monetization - the principle is give away the razor, sell the blades!

arthurficial 8/25/08 11:21PM #

It is not difficult to see that just PPC could become a substantial revenue generator for sites created with Synthasite.. almost like the guys at 8m.com and 8k,cim used to do back in the day.. just a whole lot more Web2.0-er..

Jesse Bouman 8/26/08 6:37AM #

Hi Vinny, I voted green arrow up. I like the product, I like the people behind it, even more like the statement that your goal is to destroy all the small web hosting companies that charge way too much... As you know we are BIG and don't charge enough ;-) Hope to see you at CJU..

Siva 8/26/08 8:8PM #

Hi Vinny, you have my vote... Synthasite is great product. I guess traffic isimportant. money will follow with traffic and good product. you have both...it is matter of which way you decide to make money..

Dave Gale 8/29/08 12:1AM #

Vinny, you rogue! First time I've taken the time to look at what you've been busy with. Impressive. If this does not unlock online value for the little guys, I'll eat my shorts. Well done mate. If you have time when you're next back in CT, would love a coffee & chat about a project I'm getting into. Haven't forgiven you for doing a runner on CITI, although in hindsight, you made a smart move!! ;)

Jesse 8/30/08 7:41PM #

Hi Vinny, I'm somebody that probably fits your use case scenario for SynthaSite. About a month ago, I started using BlinkWeb, and it looks as though their model is very similar to yours. I'm now very familiar with their product, and from a user perspective have a good feel for what works and what doesn't. I've just created my SynthaSite account and am now going to take a deep dive and check it out vis-a-vis BlinkWeb. Are there any features off the top of your head that you can point out that differentiates SS from BlinkWeb? Cheers, Jesse

Vinny Lingham 9/1/08 1:51AM #

@Jesse Hi Jesse. I haven't reviewed BlinkWeb yet - not sure what their feature offering is. I can say that we're focused on having the best end-user experience in the market. At the end of the day, we're getting a lot of traction - so I'm sure we're doing the right stuff! We're not only getting more users to use our product, we're keeping them, hence the steady upward trendlines on our graph: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/blinkweb.com+synthasite.com/?metric=uv Regards Vinny

Jayson 9/3/08 11:32PM #

Vinny - I haven't had a chance to complete our entire synthasite but I've finished a few pages and it's incredible. User friendly, clean and professional and full of features...definitely something worth pursuing, and from what I've read, your revenue model is spot on when it comes to the future of the internet.

Paul H 9/7/08 4:12AM #

Vinny very interesting, I'll hopefully be in touch shortly to dicuss areas of collaboration.