Are you a Facebook application developer? Are you facing problems to maintain your popular app like the “Where I’ve been” guy?

Well my application has become incredibly popular, and I’m very excited about it, don’t get me wrong!

But I’m a freelance developer, not a company, and its put a powerful 4GB $450 a month dedicated server on 3 backbones at maximum load and is pushing 2000GB a month in traffic. It doesn’t make me any money and I’m getting hundreds of comments and emails daily about it.

How can i support it and maintain it? What do i do with it now? its growing at a few users a second, so should i get another server each month?

According to Jeremy Liew of LightSpeed Venture Partners, Facebook users have an average of 5 apps now and this is expected to increase (duh!)

So is it no surprise we have arrived at this?

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Bay Partners said it wants to write checks of between $25,000 and $250,000 to developers writing applications for Facebook’s platform… The project is remarkable because it suggests the firm believes these applications may grow into major companies simply by gorging on the massive 29 million userbase of Facebook as a testing ground. Bay’s program, called AppFactory, will invest in “tensâ€? of companies using a fast-track approval process very similar to Charles River Venture’s Quickstart program.

I am psyched man, anyone want to develop an app? Contact me. =)