It does seem to be an amazing example. The daily signups and ongoing community involvement are a great indication.

Good luck with the funding. It’s great to hear that you have managed to avoid marketing to these people via the site – quite rare in the current web

Keep up the great work!

We know it has helped many many people. We still have people signing up on an almost daily basis as they find it. We’re actually pretty excited as we’re about to expand on the concept in a number of areas, give it a much needed facelift etc.

One thing we’ve struggled with is the marketing. Finance has been an issue of course and I think it could have had a much wider reach had we been better at marketing or had some government funding like the guys in our post.

I think what became clear early on is that it can’t be about monetizing the audience, we’re dealing with people who have a problem and often don’t know who to turn to. Ethically we felt advertising would be oppposite to our ethos, thus I worked on it largely for very little and Dr Benjamin ploughed money in where he could.

I’ll keep you posted if you’re interested? The draw for me is it’s a wonderful example in a sea of noise of what the Internet can actually be useful for.

I guess the question is… “is myRay successful?” do users find it useful, informative etc? Do they trust it? It would be great to hear how you think the site/concept is going, 4 years on…