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I have not seen my wife so engaged with a site or mobile app since Facebook and possibly Angry Birds. That's when I knew Pinterest was going to be huge. Good for them on raising this round.

I think the path to monetization will be a no-brainer as well.

Contrast that with the folks as Svpply (I heard hopes for them for early on) who sit around saying "They’ve (pinterest) locked themselves into a niche community of 22-35yr old women" while Pinterest is absolutely blowing up and eating their lunch. Very stupid and short-sighted view IMO. http://pieratt.tumblr.com/post/10452105095/who-svpply-is-com...

Take note on what your spouse/kids/SO spend their time engaged in.

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From the article you posted from by Svpply blog: "It’s going to be very difficult for them to grow beyond puppies and photos of Ryan Gosling."

Wow. What a complete disregard for women as a desirable demographic. When companies act like this it's an opportunity for the rest of us.

I've been using pinterest the same way I use twitter; as social media for my business (whose target demographic is women 22-35).

as social media for my business

I wish I could say "OMG", but HN wouldn't allow me. This is exactly what I was afraid of when I found Pinterest: marketers. This is the start of a decline.

Why so? The Twitter deluge of SM marketing? (I'm trying to figure out your concern).

When people start to promote their products on places like this, they end dominating the content.

locked themselves into a niche community of 22-35yr old women

This is like being stranded on a deserted island surrounded by a blue ocean made out of money.

And there aren't very many other islands in the ocean. It's a huge demographic that virtually nobody has successfully targeted.

Agreed. My girlfriend, who totally eschews anything social media related, is completely wrapped up in Pinterest. If I could buy stock I would.

My girlfriend found Pinterest via Ravelry, a knitting social network. Not sure which of the two she spends more time on at the moment, but pretty sure most of her online time is on one or the other.

I think Ravelry is an impressive (and, oddly, rarely spoken of) bootstrapping success story.

I am a dude. Pinterest gets me in touch with both my creative, and apparently now, feminine side. I like it so much I decide I will build another site around it this weekend.

It's true. SVPPLY is mostly a bunch of dudes who all like the same boring JCrew-meets-Hypebeast dad wear. Not an awful market but nowhere near as big as "women age 20-35."

Right, but I also already see Pinterest moving out of that niche ... even I have an account now.

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