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by jpatapoff 4641 days ago
I totally agree with your fanrant. I think they did an excellent job paving the way with images, but there are still gaps to be filled with audio, video, etc. I've started working on audiour ('The imgur of audio') in my spare time and there has been a decent amount of traffic. I feel that giving the ability for users to fully participate on a site before they create an account is going to become more popular over time.
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kenbellows 4641 days ago
Suggestion: even though you are explicitly imitating imgur for a different medium, don't say it out loud. If you want to convince imgur to work with/buy/fund you first, fine, but otherwise, two things intuitively make it seem like a bad idea:

1. potential legal issues with referring directly or indirectly to imgur

2. it really comes off as a cheap copycat rather than a unique product serving a different (albeit somewhat similar) purpose.

Come up with a creative name indicative of the fact that it is in fact a standalone, not dependent on or related to imgur itself in any way.

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jpatapoff 4641 days ago
That's fair criticism - I'm open to the idea of changing the name. However, I'm not too concerned about the legal issues with imgur - I've spoken with Alan (the creator/CEO) in person and directly told him I would change the name - he said not to worry about it. I think the idea that Audiour is coming off as a 'cheap copycat' is a concern though. It's something I'll definitely think about.
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burpee 4641 days ago
I agree that the name "Audiour" has a few issues, but the cheap copycat issue isn't that big in my opinion. You're clearly doing something else. A copycat name would be if you were using the name "imgour" or something like that.

The problem with the name "Audiour" is that it's not easily pronouncable. If I remember correctly, imgur was aimed to mimic the word "imager". When I read "Audiour" the first thing I think of is an audiotour in a museum. When I try to pronounce it, I have the choice between "audi-our", "audio-er" or "audi-oor".

If you're interested, I bought soundur.com because in my opinion that's a much better name.

You can have it if you want - contact me at username @gmail.com :)

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