But after we started, we had new and new ideas about a lot of cool features … and simply we can’t stop

I really like your attitude, and I am suprised by your pace… archeryimages.net is also just for fun, but for me it’s less than 100€ a year, and that’s pretty much just hosting fees. I also wanted to make archeryimages more interactive, more like a social network, but it’s simply impossible for one man and without working 40h/week on the website. There is a lot of perspective in a “facebook for archers”. I get bored by fb a lot… so I am very open to something else.

Keep on with your site, I wish you the best and that you will have the success you deserve.

I can tell you some more insights:

Yes, you are right, we employed also developer from Indonesia, but he is just one of other developers and data entry employees.
Together we employed 2 developers from Slovakia, 1 from Ukraine and 1 from Indonesia. Than we have 3-4 data entry people, which enter information about archery equipment, competitions, archery clubs…

Whole project started as fun and we pay it from our pocket. We have no clear idea about income. Until now we didn’t earn single $ from this website and it doesn’t look, that we will in near future

Yes, advertisements is option. Maybe in the future we will organize virtual competitions or anything else, what could generate small income, but also huge value for archers … but in general we don’t care yet about money – archery is not about money.
Until now we invested 40 000 EUR and I expect, that until we will implement all our ideas, we will need to double this amount.

Ohhh, yes, you are right, bugs are big problem for us, it starts to be huge project and is a bit complicated to find those bugs… I hope archers will report every problem to us – than we are able to fix all quite quickly.

We did already some nice modules (e.g. Sight Tape Printing in archery calculators) or results list and basic statistic.
We will try to keep most of functionality free for archers, but in the future we will add also payed membership section, where will be content from coaches or people, which know what is archery (videos, articles, maybe any magazine, etc.)
Interesting could be also map of all archery clubs – e.g. if you plan holidays, you can take a bow with you and find nearest club around your hotel, where you can have some fun during family holidays

Our plans are huge:
e.g. section for hunters, list of coaches, list of all archery shops, price comparison section, extended statistics, heat maps of shots, mobile application (first alpha release is already loaded in our phones), practice planning, blog, etc.

You are right, let’s see what will be in 5 years.
Until now we have just very few visitors
e.g. when we started in March 2012, we had about 100 unique visitors per month, now (2 months later) we have about 2000 unique visitors per month, if the trend will be the same, I expect, that in one year we will have traffic few hundred thousands archers per month

Thank you, that you mentioned our website on your blog.

That would be more interesting to watch than golf…

Mi nombre es Guillermo Quiroga, soy el Presidente las Asociación de Tiro con Arco de Guayaquil – Ecuador, y estamos interesado en participar en Competencias abiertas (Open) donde nuestros deportistas podrían Competir en categoría Arco Recurvo Femenino y Masculino Adulto, Juvenil y Cadetes.
Muchas gracias y disculpen mi Ingles que es muy malo.
Saludos – Guillermo Quiroga