Barelist's 5 Year Anniversary
 

Today marks the 5th year anniversary of Barelist :thumbsup

Here is a capture from a few months after we started the site:
http://web.archive.org/web/200901211.../barelist.com/

Time has really flown by, guess staying busy really helps the time pass.

The learning curve for adult has been steep, and we still feel like we don't know nearly enough.

To celebrate we are in a full on site redesign and will be adding a lot of new options for program owners, webmasters and models after the start of next year.

There are tons of people to thank over the years, but we'd really like to thank Shane (Famous) and Michael (mpahlca) for their unending guidance and patience. Also Roald for being understanding and helpful when we were first starting out.

Hopefully the next 5 years see the same rate of growth and the site continues to evolve into something that we're proud of. We also hope that we will be able to help out fellow webmasters, programs and models a lot more in the coming years :)

Thanks so much guys :cool-as-a

Congrats dood:)

BTW some quick stats on the site.

Sponsor FHGs: 120,292
Galleries we've made: 21,162 (new style)
Webmaster Galleries: 41,284
Models: 10,224
Model Comments: 6,672
Image Comments: 6,840
Model Interviews: 420
Daily Uniques: ~100,000

Not crazy for 5 years, but everything's organic and only my wife and I work on the site.

Congrats on the 5 years :thumbsup

Congrats! :thumbsup

Next headhunt Roald from Payserve to take you to the next level :winkwink:

LOL we can't afford him!

Plus I think Austin might not be weird enough for him :winkwink:

:1orglaugh :thumbsup

Maybe you can offer Roald a % of profit, that might get him interested

Awesome!
Congrats on the big 5, and look forward to getting you more girls and more galleries!

Congratulations :thumbsup

Congrats on the 5 years :thumbsup:thumbsup

Thanks everyone :)

Kind of feels like next year we're re-launching...

I've never been happy with our page on tablets and phones. That'll be addressed first.

Also always shied away from advertising. Didn't want to let any ad buyers down if anything underperformed. We'll be doing advertising on our own terms next year, so I'm going to be a lot more open to it. Even with no advertising revenue, we've been doing pretty much better and better each month.

The ability for sites to be in control of their own content on Barelist is also something that needed attention. This also goes along with branching out and adding niches and models we don't have the resources to deal with correctly. Should also make the site updated throughout the day. This will be addressed as well.

As with the sign of the times, we'll be integrating video into the site as well. No tube like pages or interfaces, just trying to seamlessly bring streaming video on to the site.

Then also will bring some opportunities for models to be paid as well. Nothing earth shattering here. But we've made some good relationship with models and would like to give back to those who have been helpful to us over the year.

Lots of stuff... 2014 should be fun! The development side isn't though :helpme

nice one, congrats

Impressive, congrats on the five years and to five more :thumbsup

Congrats!!! I remember those first years ;)))

Congrats!!!!!

Congrats :)

Congrats man

CONGRATULATIONS (yes I'm shouting)!!!! :)

We're coming up on MY 5 year Anniversary soon (Jan 2014) so I know the excitement/realization you must feel, as in 'Wow we're still here and growing...' LOL Wonderful site and great work.

I will hit you up on ICQ soon to discuss submit accounts, we do lots of gallery submissions (still). :)

one of my favorite people to chat with on icq!!

Congrats bud!

Congrats on the 5 years :)

GRATS!!! :thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

Congratulations!!!

Also, that's hilarious. I just heard from someone that you're in Austin. Me too!

Congrats love your site!

Thanks everyone :)

Really hoping next year I can help you all push your stuff a little better!

Yeah been in Austin forever. Left for a bit and hated it... can't imagine living anywhere else :)