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I built PicPocket because my photo gallery, which is largely an unstructured dataset, was already organized when I shared my photos with others. Namely, whenever I take photos on a…

you don't ask the legal department, this way its both black market and white market simultaneously

Noted, I wasn't sure about the sticky scroll on the landing page, now I'm definitely getting rid of it.

Hi, I made this with two others. As title suggests, its a private social media (although closer to a messenger) where, you send posts/photos to others and they show up on a unified…

Its for the photos, in a nutshell the 'chat' will inherit/show you albums from everywhere that the user/group is a subset. For example, if you have a family group with a bunch of f…

I think your analysis about the feed is correct, but the intention isn't to create a traditional feed to scroll for hours, we have plenty of those that do a very good job already. …

The business side of things might become a challenge, I have some ideas on how to overcome this without affecting the core product, but its definitely going to be a lot of experime…

Thanks! :) There could be, talking to users they would definitely like some 'magic button' that automatically organizes the photos into albums by date/location and auto-adds them t…

I completely agree, my only issue with WhatsApp is that when I get a message, I need to read it immediately and its 50/50 whether its important or just a random link to something. …

Ouch, I wrote this myself, but I am new to blogging so point taken.

I think the 'sending posts directly to people' which mimics the way memes are sent on instagram helps a lot with this. If I know exactly who the audience is for what I'm sending it…

I think so, the feed doesn't really cost much and our infra isn't on AWS. The main focus is the photo storage and as long as that makes enough to cover costs long-term I'm happy ke…

Which part? The photos or the feed?

Sure, but it doesn't always work and isn't very organized. My point is that you already organized all of those photos every time you shared them. So why not capitalize on it for fu…

The end-result is that each 'chat' (Pocket) is effectively a chronological history of all your memories with this person/people. A good friend of mine is using this for his newborn…