The story
DailyBooth was founded and opened in February 2009 by Jon Wheatley and lead developer Ryan Amos, gaining popularity after several YouTube stars and Internet celebrities, such as Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore joined and encouraged their viewers and readers to join. On 7 September 2009 the site passed the 1,000,000 photo mark and the user who posted the 1,000,000th photo won a Throwboy pillow. In early 2010, the website reached 3,000,000 photos and 10,000,000 comments.
There were three versions of DailyBooth, the original (1.0), and two complete re-writes (2.0 and 3.0).
Y Combinator stated that they had once considered a name change for DailyBooth, but were afraid it would cause a revolt with the community. In April 2012 it was announced that Airbnb will take over the team of DailyBooth in their search for talent.
On 11 November 2012, members were sent an e-mail stating that no more content could be uploaded after 14 November and that all content will be permanently deleted on 31 December 2012. They introduced an option to export all the photos on an account. On 15 November 2012, DailyBooth became read only, removing the ability for users to post any new photos or comments. It closed completely on 31 December 2012.
From Wikipedia’s article on DailyBooth, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.6