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 of both creator and audience. The audience gets a fun visual way of browsing all of the latest web comics. But only getting the first frame, they must click through to the original source if they want to enjoy it in full. Thus, the creators receive 100% of the deserved traffic, which comes with their own ad impressions and anything else they are promoting on their websites.

To me, that's kind of a win-win. I'd love to hear any thoughts!

Link: http://www.justthefirstframe.com