The new focus on home pages doesn't sound like a very good idea either. Google and Yahoo have been doing that for years (not to mention Netvibes, Pageflakes, etc), and your improvement on that is to let people position and resize images and videos? Good luck with that.
How about a different approach? You've written all this code that lets people easily lay things out on a web page. Hm... that sounds kind of like a desktop publishing application. What do people use those for? Flyers, invitations, newsletters, etc. And all of these things are notoriously annoying to send via email. If you crank out some templates and hype up your product as an easy way for people to make and send flyers (with videos embedded!), then you'd at least start out with a few users.
But home pages? It's been done. Many, many times.
After seeing the eZ Website Creator, I was quite impressed and that seems a lot better than the Homepage theory. What was the problem with that?
You mentioned that you wanted to eventually become acquired by a Search-engine startup, I really don't see that happening with the Homepage method.
All the best .. Mark/Alex
would love an invite : redrory ( at) gmail (dot) com :)
"In the end we decided to forego the customizable webpage market and focus on customizable homepages."
From clutterme.com ...
"We let you make websites."
Which one is it?
