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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 deftnerd »

I like this idea more and more as I see it.

One note, the text on the "Add New Photo" link says "Please not that "... That should be "note" not "not".

Additionally, the section after the email instructions seems like it could use some rephrasing.

Does the album owner get teaser emails close to the expiration of the album reminding them to either download the archive or pay more to keep it online?

You should also make an option so the album owner can send a message to all the email addresses that sent in photos. A use case would be to notify all the people that submitted pictures to download the archive before it's removed.

Kudos, this is a neat project. I see a clear path to success with the wedding industry. Simply posting some signs around a venue asking people to visit pixomize.com/SomeWedding2014 or emailing their pictures to SomeWedding2014@pixomize.com would be great. In fact, you could charge more for the service if you target that demographic.

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

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Post by omerklein »

koski wrote: post #20
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.

Have you checked this? http://www.aoneapps.com/reviews/glimpix-group-photo-sharing/

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

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Post by armenb »

Do you mind if I ask couple of technical questions?

- How did you cope with the traffic from HN?

- The image resize service you implemented (photo.pixomize.com) is so simple and clean I want to know how did you implemented it? is it implemented from scratch?

What I like about photo.pixomize.com is the simplicity in the URL and how you can simply create thumbnail and download it and it's pretty fast.

There are lot's of image resize services out there which do the exact same thing as a SaaS.

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

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Post by koski »

deftnerd wrote: post #21

I like this idea more and more as I see it. One note, the text on the "Add New Photo" link says "Please not that "... That should be "note" not "not". Additionally, the section after the email instructions seems like it could use some rephrasing. Does the album owner get teaser emails close to the expiration of the album reminding them to either download the archive or pay more to keep it online? You should also make…

Thanks for the heads up for the typo. Will be fixed in the next push. Will rephrase the second instruction after also.

Currently the album owner gets teaser emails that the album is about to expire. Owner cannot buy "more online time" yet but that is on my road map. I will not need that feature before some weeks when the first albums start expiring :)

Good point about an option for the owner to send email. I will think about it. There is already a automatic notify that is sent to everyone who posted to the expiring album saying "the album is expired now, but you can still download all the photos as a zip file from this link".

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

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Post by koski »

armenb wrote: post #23

Do you mind if I ask couple of technical questions? - How did you cope with the traffic from HN? - The image resize service you implemented (photo.pixomize.com) is so simple and clean I want to know how did you implemented it? is it implemented from scratch? What I like about photo.pixomize.com is the simplicity in the URL and how you can simply create thumbnail and download it and it's pretty fast. There are lot's o…

More than happy to answer. I am planning to write a blog post about technical parts soon.

The traffic was not that big for this kind of sites. Yesterday there seemed to be around 2.5K visitors from HN and each having average 2.1 page views per session.

The resizing service is implemented from scratch. It's very simple (resize and cache) and does not have the possibility to define point of interest (yet - I would like to do some experiences with that too).

I'm currently writing a technical blog post about Pixomize.

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

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Post by koski »

omerklein wrote: post #22
koski wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Have you checked this? http://www.aoneapps.com/reviews/glimpix-group-photo-sharing/

Yes, but it needs an app to post the photos. And it has slightly different usecases that I'm after. (Pixomize is more like: "everyone who wants to share photos, just post them to this email address so we can all download them").
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