Image Hosting Website?

[SN3]

EDIT: Nevermind

I'm thinking of creating a website that offers free & paid image hosting. There would a free plan and a few paid plans that allow you host images only. The free images would have a watermark or something (of the name of the site), and would allow a certain number of pictures (a certain amount of space). The paid ones would have much more space and wouldn't have a watermark. There would be a user control panel where the user would be able to upload, delete, link and manage the images. Once the image is uploaded it would show code for putting the image in phpBB, bulletin, HTML, etc (I would have to work on the coding...I might need some help). There would be some sort of ads on the page (maybe adsense or something that would earn a fair amount of money with non-obtrusive ads) that would help generate revenue. Does anyone know if there is a potential market for this type of stuff?

I'm not really sure if this would take off or not, I think it might be too late to start an image hosting business.

Thanks in advance.

[thebassman]

Yeah, I'm not really sure if there's a need for any more image hosting sites... there are lots out there, and I don't really think they're all the profitable...

[Danny]

I don't think it'll work. They're very server intensive, and there isn't a huge market. I'm doing a bit of image hosting on http://www.myzoe.com with the whole pets thing, and it chews up the bandwidth.

[GoldDust]

Maybe offer your image hosting service along side another business idea that requires image hosting, this way you support your own network.

just a thought.

[gariben]

I'm doing a image hosting service at www.imagehosting.us

It does take a bit of bandwidth. One day, it even used up 60G. Though I have placed some restrictions on it and it has come down a bit.

[thebassman]

You should trying partnering up with a photography forum I bet they're would be some mutual benefits.