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Growth · March 2, 2012

The best way to discover web comics

I came up with the idea for this site a couple weeks ago and spent a few days hacking together an MVP. The basic premise is that there are two opposing issues surrounding web comics: sharing & copyright infringement. Sites like Pinterest make it easy to share comics, but people share the comics in full with no requirement to link to the original source. Other sites like Reddit are sensitive to copyright, thus only showing text links, but it's a very non-visual way of browsing highly visual content. So I had the idea that showing only the first frame of each comic serves the needs/wants…

The best way to discover web comics launched on March 2, 2012 with 6 votes, #109 of 340 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

What it does

Helping you explore the world of frames by capturing the essence of the project and what you need the most. Yes, that’s right. We complete things in style with creator-owned material and manage to take it forward and into a domain of importance. With a team of highly qualified individuals, we are all ready to offer the kind of services that you have been waiting for. We’ll even custom design your epoxy flooring . So come forward and explore our services in order to understand how we go about widening the essence of creativity and making it all count for good. Before submitting a comic, I’d like you to be aware that I’m no longer accepting comics that don’t have an…from justthefirstframe.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

I came up with the idea for this site a couple weeks ago and spent a few days hacking together an MVP. The basic premise is that there are two opposing issues surrounding web comics: sharing & copyright infringement. Sites like Pinterest make it easy to share comics, but people share the comics in full with no…

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