Web2Messenger is still alive, but development is slow (invites included)
Posted by absorbation on Sat 26 Apr 2008 (14:13 GMT)

When Web2Messenger first hit the scene it was big, very big. People went mad trying to find an invite to the service, that displayed your Messenger status, display name and personal message within an image that you could manipulate and show on various websites and forums.

TheBlasphemer has now posted some new news after five months and hearing nothing:
We haven't really been working on Web2Messenger for quite a while now, but it's been silently running in the background doing what it's supposed to do. The only real problem was that changing your passport or signing up wouldn't work, as the add-user routine in the bots were broken. Initially I've just wanted to keep Web2Messenger running as both Andrew and I find it quite useful, but as people kept on bugging me about the aforementioned bug, I took some time yesterday to try and fix it. For now it seems fixed, and in case it fails again I've added some event logging that should alert me to the exact place it's failing so I can pinpoint the problem easily.

Now, we aren't opening up Web2Messenger to the grand public yet, but I did drop off a few invites to a forum and a news site to generate some new buzz around it. Reason being both that I'd like to see my bugfix tested, and that I'd like to get some feedback on things. Web2Messenger in it's current form has no real future. We're currently running into our maximum capacity, but making no real profit. We would like to add an extra server (think roughly 200$ per month), but we're simply unable to afford it. We're hoping someone might have a good idea or opportunity to get some proper advertising income so we could put some more time into W2M. So, if you have any ideas about how to generate some income, or have an idea for a sponsoring deal or something, please do not hesitate to reply to this forum thread or use the contact form.


So it sounds like the service just isn't profitable for these busy workers. The developers now have other things going on in their lives and bills to pay. Let's hope the service can be maximized or even sold to someone who can exploit Web2Messenger to its full potential.

Invites:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

>> Source: Web2Messenger official forums

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