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Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required – weekend project

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Re: Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required – weekend project

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Post by omerklein »

koski wrote: post #7
ing33k wrote: post #5

nice weekend project, are you targeting some specific audience in particular ?

Yes, people who: A) don't want to be everybody's fb friends/g+/etc who were in a friend's birthday party, but still wants to share the photos she took at the party B) easy for anybody to share an album and other to participate - usually after such a birthday as mentioned above, one person's photos are in fb, other one's in G+, third's in dropbox... in other words, people who wants to share together. So basically ever…

Hi, sounds nice. Have you checked projects that are working on this such as: Cluster, BirdBox, Photo Circle, Adobe - GroupPix, SeaHorse, EverSnap, CapsuleCam. How do you differentiate your product from those services?

Re: Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required – weekend project

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Post by koski »

omerklein wrote: post #11
koski wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, people who: A) don't want to be everybody's fb friends/g+/etc who were in a friend's birthday party, but still wants to share the photos she took at the party B) easy for anybody to share an album and other to participate - usually after such a birthday as mentioned above, one person's photos are in fb, other one's in G+, third's in dropbox... in other words, people who wants to share together. So basically ever…

Hi, sounds nice. Have you checked projects that are working on this such as: Cluster, BirdBox, Photo Circle, Adobe - GroupPix, SeaHorse, EverSnap, CapsuleCam. How do you differentiate your product from those services?

Yeah, I have check some of them.

- Cluster, one needs to install app on it (needs iphone or android).

- BirdBox, one needs to install app on it (and only iphone)

- Adobe - GroupPix, is pretty close but one needs an app on it

- SeaHorse - one needs to login, have an app

- EverSnap - nice one, but needs an app for it

- CapsuleCam - needs an app

So yes, so my idea here is that one would not need to install yet another app or register.

(Never heard Photo Circle before. Will check it out.)

(edit: changed format, typo)

Re: Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required – weekend project

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Post by Wingman4l7 »

koski wrote: post #12
omerklein wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, sounds nice. Have you checked projects that are working on this such as: Cluster, BirdBox, Photo Circle, Adobe - GroupPix, SeaHorse, EverSnap, CapsuleCam. How do you differentiate your product from those services?

Yeah, I have check some of them. - Cluster, one needs to install app on it (needs iphone or android). - BirdBox, one needs to install app on it (and only iphone) - Adobe - GroupPix, is pretty close but one needs an app on it - SeaHorse - one needs to login, have an app - EverSnap - nice one, but needs an app for it - CapsuleCam - needs an app So yes, so my idea here is that one would not need to install yet another a…

Kudos for providing a web-based solution and breaking the annoying trend of requiring yet another app to accomplish something!

Re: Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required – weekend project

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Post by koski »

hackplus wrote: post #14

What payment methods do you accept? I can only see an email field with a "Order the upgrade with 1€" button.

Good question. Currently none.

Current usage levels have been so low that I have not yet used too much time to implement the payment methods.

I'm currently validating that people will click that button enough so that it's worth to implement the payment.

I should probably change that euro char to dollar one.

Re: Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required – weekend project

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Post by somid3 »

koski wrote: post #2

Author here. While some are solving important and complex problems, I created yet another photo sharing service :) And no sexy features included. The basic idea is to try to be as simple as possible without needing to create an account nor needing to download any special client. A simple way to gather photos from an event. This is mostly a project to try, to test, to research and to learn new stuff.

Koski, do you live in the bay area?

Re: Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required – weekend project

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Post by koski »

somid3 wrote: post #16
koski wrote: post #2

Author here. While some are solving important and complex problems, I created yet another photo sharing service :) And no sexy features included. The basic idea is to try to be as simple as possible without needing to create an account nor needing to download any special client. A simple way to gather photos from an event. This is mostly a project to try, to test, to research and to learn new stuff.

Koski, do you live in the bay area?

Nope, currently in Finland.

Mind if I ask why? :)

Re: Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required – weekend project

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Post by koski »

HenryMc wrote: post #9
koski wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True. But as I see it, if people want to share something explicit they are more than welcome to do so. Right? Or did I understood something differently than you meant? The owner of the album has the right to delete any photos of an album if they find some "too explicit" for their taste.

The problem is that if you make the album public anybody could add anything. For example I just added a new picture to you Paris album (of Paris), but could have just of easily added something pornographic. Yes you can delete it, but unless you monitor it 24/7 it will stay up until you delete it. Two solutions: 1. Have all photos submitted from people other then the owner go to a holding folder for approval by the ow…

Thanks @HenryMc, Solution 1 implemented (owner of the album can decide).

Re: Show HN: Easy photo sharing – no sign-up required – weekend project

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Post by koski »

triplekey wrote: post #19

Does this have any particular advantages over imgur?

How I see it, these two services are for pretty different use cases. Basic idea behind Pixomize is to have a common album with your friends or other people and you fill the album together.
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