The Flvrd Blog

It has been awhile since our last blog post. This will be the last one before we head to Santiago, Chile on the 11th to be part of Start-Up Chile.

Until then, Happy New Year and we look forward to bring you more awesomeness in 2012 from Santiago, Chile!

Psst, surprise coming soon... cat.

Greetings from Flvrd! We have reached six months old and we have to say that it has been a very fantastic journey. Aside from serving you flavored visual stuff from the internet, we are finally have our own cute namecards and t-shirts fresh from the workshop!

Hey, it's time again for another update report!

New Flavicons

We have added a couple of brand new flavicons: Food, Retro, Bird, Comic, Geeky. Good news, everyone: most of these shiny and tasty new flavicons are available to all users so you can use them straight away!

New Short Url

We have remade the short url link, made it shorter and easier to maintain (our Flavibots are trying to be more organized). Old short url links still works fine though.

Preparting for Start-Up Chile

Since we were selected to take part in Start-Up Chile, we are super busy — preparing our move to Santiago, Chile. Visa is the biggest headache and we are picking up Spanish!

We are nominated, you guys have voted and we have made it. Flvrd is in the 2011 Asia's Top 50 Apps list! You can check the list here.

This certainly gives us a huge boost moving forward. Thanks for all the support and votes.

*Updated*

Woot! Another good news: We have been nominated for Asia's Top 50 Apps 2011 and we need your help. If you like Flvrd, can we have your vote? Voting is easy. Go to http://asiatop50apps.com/flvrd/ and vote by "Like" and "+1". Done.

Thanks!

We are very excited to announce that we will be joining Start-Up Chile with 153 other startups from all around the world. This means we will be moving to Santiago, Chile for six months to take Flvrd to another level of awesomeness.

So, What's Start-Up Chile?

Start-Up Chile is a program of the Chilean Government to attract world-class early stage entrepreneurs to start their businesses in Chile.

What We Got?

Seriously, everything that can make Flvrd better — the network, support, mentorship, startup culture and $40k equity-free seed capital. Personally, this will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience and a real launching pad for our entrepreneurship journey.

Expect The Unexpected!

Flvrd was launched to the public four months ago and since then, many have expressed their excitement and love through blogs and Twitter. We want to make you guys more excited than ever! Get ready for a more polished version of Flvrd in the coming months.

Be sure to follow us as we will be covering our Start-Up Chile journey throughout our six months stay there. Stay tuned.

It's time again for our monthly update. Some of you might already noticed something new (hint: top).

Introducing the "Flavor Bar"

You are now one click away to discover your tasty pictures or videos. Select the flavors that suit your tastes and discover content like a champ!

"Flave" is now "Vote"

Quite a number of you are puzzled with the word "flave" or "flaves" or "flaved". Well, flave literally means vote. We thought it was cool to use the word "flave" but it seems now that it makes people more puzzled. So we have decided to bring back the common word "vote" and now "flave" is "vote". Sorry guys!

Bug Hunting

As always, we have fixed some bugs (some are big and some are small). But, we are far from done... and the hunting continues.

OK, that's all we have this month. Will keep you guys posted next month.

It has been more than a month since we launched Flvrd. So, here is our first monthly update to keep you posted on awesome stuff that happened last month.

Growth

We have been growing steady and slowly. Currently there are 600+ interesting pictures and videos shared on Flvrd. As of 30th June, we have a total of 8,000+ unique visitors and almost 50,000 page views. We are very happy with those figures given the fact that we didn't spend much time on marketing. Big thanks to sites like Abduzeedo, AllMyFaves and KillerStartups, we got lots of free press :)

Updates

Secret no more. We have removed the secret code requirement for signup. Now everyone can join the fun! If you have not, join now!

Minor changes. We have made some small, unnoticeable changes to Flvrd plus users now able to include the source of the content posted instead of linking back to the picture.

New Tumblog! We have launched a tumblog featuring our picks of the most interesting content daily. If you are on Tumblr, be sure to follow our tumblog!

Make sure you follow us on Twitter and friend us on Facebook for more juicy updates.

Hello, hello!

It's time for some updates since we officially went public about a week ago. We had a soft launch with no buzz and certainly no Techcrunch effect. Traffic and signups mainly came from our email blast to those who signed up via our launching soon page. Interestingly, a significant portion of traffic came from a notable Spanish blog, WWWhat's New. They wrote about us and we didn't expect that at all! So, thanks guys for our very first blog coverage, appreciate the love.

Feedback

We received some very good feedback. Thank you all, we love them and we love to hear more :) You guys wanted more fun and happy stuff, we are happy to give you guys more because that is what Flvrd is all about.

Some updates

Very well, time for some updates. Here are what we have installed for you:

The ability to Like + comment on Facebook. Now you can like and comment on what you liked on Facebook via Facebook Like button.

Two new flavors. Well, looks like you guys like meme, aren't you? We have added two new flavicons — Memeworthy and Infographic. Sharing infographics is more fun than ever!

Email notifications. Never miss a conversation again :) Now you will get email notification whenever someone commented on your post or replied to your comment. Plus, you will also get notified whenever a person starts following you. *Notifications are on by default but you can turn them off via the notification settings page.

Pssssst, the signup secret code for this week is flvrdmeplease. Valid till Friday, 27 May 2011. So get flvrd now!

As of today, we are excited to announce...

*drum roooooll*

Flvrd is now open to the World!

A really huge milestone for us after four months of work but this is just the beginning and stay tuned for more awesome stuff to come.

There are few things to take note:

Flvrd is still in early beta. Bugs might pop out from no where, things might change here and there, features might be added or removed.

Signup requires a "secret code". You will need a secret code to signup but feel free to lurk around. We will post this code on Twitter and Facebook. So, watch out for #secretcode on Twitter :)

Enough said, get flvrd now!

At Flvrd, if content is king then flavicon is queen. On our very first post, we talked about the concept of “flavoring” pictures and videos with flavors. By "flavoring" we didn't mean tagging (with tags). Sure, this is how it's currently done but we feel that tags are too plain and too messy at times. So we want, umm well something visual, simple and fun.

Say hello to flavicons.

Flavicons are the visual representation of flavors. Like tags, flavicons allow you to categorize pictures and videos based on their flavors. There are six types of flavicons:

Emoji: Facial expressions or emoticons.

Fancy: Interests or hobbies.

Meme: Internet memes.

Slang: Short-hand representation of expressions.

Special: Mostly just for fun, seasonal stuff.

Things: Stuff, objects or animals.

One more thing.

Flavicons are not just the visual representation of flavors. These cute and colorful round icons are your achievement "badges" as well. Notice the "Special" type of flavicon? Not everyone will have the same set of flavicons. You need to unlock them.

Here is how we summarize flavicons:

Flavicon = tag + category + badge + fun + color

Have fun flavoring!

Uh, no. We are not referring to foods/drinks here. We are talking about pictures and videos. Sure, we have flavors for food like barbecue... but how about flavors for visual thing like pictures and videos? Here is where Flvrd comes in.

Flvrd (pronounce as flavored, poor vowels) is a place to share and flavor pictures/videos, where pictures and videos can be flavored and get flavored. Flvrd lets people express their pictures or videos with taste, flavor them with flavicons.

At Flvrd, we want to create a different experience, a unique way for people to share and explore pictures or videos, just like how you enjoy food by its flavors and not by its type or color.

Curious? Interested? We will ping you once we have more stuff to show. Make sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter.