Can A YC, Mobile-Rookie Founder Crack The Image Sharing Space With Imgfave?
Billy Gallagher is a writer for TechCrunch. He is also the president and editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. Billy previously worked at The Stanford Daily for two volumes as a managing editor of news. He has also worked in sports and staff development at The Daily. In March of 2012 the Friends of The Stanford Daily awarded him... ? Learn More Popular image-sharing service imgfave launched an iOS app last week, causing most of their engagement metrics to at least double, and signups to quadruple. Underscoring the power of both mobile and social right now, imgfave’s app reached the same level of activity as the main website, which gets 30 million monthly page views and 3.3 million monthly unique visitors, just two days after it launched, according to the founder, Gabe Ragland. As its name implies, imgfave is a simple image-sharing site that focuses on “design, creativity and beautiful things.” Ragland is an unlikely case, a single founder with no mobile experience working to disrupt...