Fukobukuro 11: Birthday Fuko
- Crappy (Day Zero) birthday to us
- Remember, “fukobukuro” means “unlucky bag”, and we take that translation very seriously
- Heed our warning: you’ll bitterly regret spending a dime on this
- If this garbage were worth anything, we’d sell it the normal way
- And on top of that, it’s probably already sold out (/sad trombone)
Thank you for letting Meh be ourselves again.
Two years minus one day ago, when we first lifted the curtain for our most intimate friends to take a peek at this, we knew a few things. We knew recreating the “classic” daily-deal site would be fun. We knew we wanted to get back to an emphasis on community and humor and honesty instead of quarterly goals and incremental monetization.
We just didn’t know if it would work.
You can’t run a community-driven site if the community doesn’t show up. If they don’t take the wheel. If they don’t think you, and each other, are fun to hang out with.
Now, two years since that Day Zero pre-launch, countless swapped beers and dismantled lightbulbs later, we’re almost confident in saying: it works. Because of you guys, from our Kickstarter backers to the weirdos who are still wandering in anew every day.
As well as it’s gone, this has always been an experiment around one ironclad non-negotiable bedrock principle: one deal a day. That’ll never change. We do have some tweaks on the near horizon. Maybe all those ideas will be terrible, massive failures.
Cool. We’ll come up with some other shit to try. Because now we know we’ve got a community that will stick around when we try shit. Not only that: you want us to try shit. But only our weird shit, not dumb shit imposed on us by indifferent overlords. And weird-shit-trying friends are the greatest gift of all. (That’s you guys.) Thank you, you lovable infuriating wonderful freaks.