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Re: Show HN: Easy way to print Facebook photos

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Post by zferland »

johnmurch wrote: post #6
zferland wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually didn't think of adding multiple prints of one photo yet, good thought, I'll look into adding it! And yes they can be delivered to the UK, the photos are actually sent from the UK

Have you thought about what if you want to send a copy to a friend but don't know their address. Maybe an automated way to capture your friends physical address or "easy to send" address like work. Although I guess I could see that getting to look like spam. Will be sure to use post holidays - also what about printing them as postcards (photo on front, blank or typed message on back.)

Yeah, actually one of the first things I would like to add to this version is the ability to send packages of photos to multiple friends, family, etc. Haven't thought about how to handle it when people don't know a friend's address (although very common I'm sure).

Didn't think of postcards, good thought!

I did think of making it possible to add text at one point, and I can print on the back, so definitely an option.

Re: Show HN: Easy way to print Facebook photos

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Post by dave5104 »

How much does this cost? How does it work? How long does it take?

I typically do not like "Connecting With Facebook" unless I have an extremely compelling reason to, but this landing page tells you almost nothing about what's on the other side of the authentication, apart from the end deliverables. Some more details would be great.

Edit: Ah hah, I found the price. :P Perhaps don't hide it in light grey text at the bottom of a lengthy paragraph towards the bottom of the page.

Re: Show HN: Easy way to print Facebook photos

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Post by jldteixeira »

toddmorey wrote: post #10

I know the photo background at the top is blurred for effect and to make the text legible, but it makes it look like a bad photo. I'd just find something with less visual noise so you don't have to blur it.

It looks good at first, but when I tried to read it made my eyes hurt.

Re: Show HN: Easy way to print Facebook photos

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Post by greyboy »

lucaspiller wrote: post #9

OT (and maybe worthy of a separate Ask HN), but how do you start a service like this that does physical printing of stuff? Do you use a third party and just do the front end on top, or do you the whole site, printing and delivery yourselves?

I would assume something along the lines of https://www.picplum.com/ with their API. I know Walgreens has an API for the US. There might be others, too.

Re: Show HN: Easy way to print Facebook photos

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Post by zferland »

dave5104 wrote: post #12

How much does this cost? How does it work? How long does it take? I typically do not like "Connecting With Facebook" unless I have an extremely compelling reason to, but this landing page tells you almost nothing about what's on the other side of the authentication, apart from the end deliverables. Some more details would be great. Edit: Ah hah, I found the price. :P Perhaps don't hide it in light grey text at the bo…

Yeah I really did hide the price down there hah, thanks for pointing that out! I think you nailed with what are the most important questions users will want answers to before going any further, and they would be easy enough to make more obvious on the landing page or before connecting with FB, I also completely forgot "how long?", which should definitely be added, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Easy way to print Facebook photos

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Post by sandropadin »

lucaspiller wrote: post #9

OT (and maybe worthy of a separate Ask HN), but how do you start a service like this that does physical printing of stuff? Do you use a third party and just do the front end on top, or do you the whole site, printing and delivery yourselves?

Not sure what the OP is using but if you search for Pwinty or FujifilmAPI those are two printing APIs.

Re: Show HN: Easy way to print Facebook photos

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Post by kamjam »

Why would I want to print low res, highly compressed images from Facebook?

Maybe if they were from a friend's feed and they wouldn't email me the originals for some reason or for convenience... but when they are my own pictures and I have the originals... doesn't make sense to me.

Re: Show HN: Easy way to print Facebook photos

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Post by zferland »

kamjam wrote: post #18

Why would I want to print low res, highly compressed images from Facebook? Maybe if they were from a friend's feed and they wouldn't email me the originals for some reason or for convenience... but when they are my own pictures and I have the originals... doesn't make sense to me.

It makes the photos you are tagged in available to print, I know for me at least, that most of those photos are not mine. And when I go to print some, I am printing photos from multiple friends. You can imagine how painful it would be to go to multiple people (especially if they are not your best friends) and ask them to find specific photos from some point in time and send them to you, then you still have to go and print them. In the end the photo quality maybe better but it would take much longer than a few minutes, if you even receive all the photos you want.

The older photos on Facebook are pretty low res, but they do now have higher res ones available and are the proper res for 4x6 prints, I believe they have had this since adding the full screen image viewer.

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