YouTellYou bills itself as a photo-story magazine published by its readers. At its heart, it’s a cross between Flickr, Wordpress, and Life Magazine.
The Pitch:
On YouTellYou, anyone can create and publish a photo-story in minutes linking to their Flickr, Facebook or Smugmug account or uploading the photos from a their computer. The stories are presented in an online magazine, according to number of views, ranking, category, publishing date.
YouTellYou is NOT another photo hosting service: the emphasis is creating and sharing our stories via our pictures. The YouTellYou target author is someone that is willing to share information and is looking for a large audience.
YouTellYou aims are to be easy and quick for the authors, elegant and easily navigable and searchable for the readers.
The possibility are endless: travel diaries, breaking news, family events, sport events, nature photography etc.
YouTellYou offers a publishing platform to the reporter that hides in all of us.
Accomplishments to date:
Live since Jan 6, 2010
Reviewed by:
- ReadWriteWeb
- University of Missouri
- KillerStartups
- Makeuseof
- Startupmeme
- Blogs in USA, France, Holland, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Japan, Italy
Development plans:
YouTellYou needs 2 developers to make the website secure and scalable, 1 designer to make it gorgeous and 1 internet marketer to spread the word and get traction, readers and authors.
Key Challenges:
- Spread the word and make the website go viral
- Build a smartphone interface to allow people to post stories “on the go” with audio comments
Principals & Previous Experience:
Ruggero Domenichini, Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager, Italian by birth, in New Zealand since 1996 (citizen since 1999)
What they want from an investor:
~ NZD 300,000 to fund development and staff over the next year, with significant business mentoring to produce a business strategy for the next stage.
Dave’s commentary:
Ruggero Domenichini, the founder of YouTellYou seems an energetic and passionate man with plenty of real-world experience in IT and creative flair. Like many start-up founders, he’s developed his product to the beta launch and now need to build a team to turn his product into a company, as well as cash to make it happen.
Contact details:
Ruggero Domenichini (founder)
email: rujero@youtellyou.com
mob: +64 21 683305
skype: ruggero.domenichini
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