<story><title>Early screenshots of Twitter (&apos;06), Facebook (&apos;05), and Tumblr (&apos;07)</title><url>http://imgur.com/a/Sg8y7#0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>On the more prosaic end of the scale:&lt;p&gt;Bingo Card Creator, circa early 2007: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bingocardcreator.com/old-site/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bingocardcreator.com&amp;#x2F;old-site&amp;#x2F;index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t exactly scream &amp;quot;This will certainly sell a quarter million of software, allow you to quit your day job, and fund your software business.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;d find similar things floating around if you were to look at the early history of most companies which are widely idolized in our space.  Nobody ships perfection on day 1.  Luckily, customers are happy to pay for imperfect things.</text></comment>
<story><title>Early screenshots of Twitter (&apos;06), Facebook (&apos;05), and Tumblr (&apos;07)</title><url>http://imgur.com/a/Sg8y7#0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>panabee</author><text>Initially, it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter how your product looks if people want it. It would be cool to see early screenshots of other popular services like LinkedIn and Dropbox. Proper credit goes to reddit user, cmdrNacho, as the link was found here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/1y1f3n/if_you_could_give_yourself_one_piece_of_advice/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;startups&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;1y1f3n&amp;#x2F;if_you_coul...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>