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Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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Post by joneath »

It's been four months of hacking and now I am ready to show the world Portrit. Portrit brings you your Facebook friends in visual experience. Portrit is all about your friends photos and making the Facebook experience cleaner, quicker, and more fun. Create a account at http://portrit.com/create_account/ Use the key HN. Limited supply!

I started working on Portrit because Facebook's photo service is junk and I wanted something better. Originally this was a personal side project but it has grown into my first startup! This is just a limited preview launch with official public beta coming soon.

If you don't have a Facebook account or just don't trust me with you data :), check out this blog post showing all the functionality of Portrit. http://blog.portrit.com/what-is-portrit

*edit - I just upgrade everyone who made an account to Social. This key was supposed to give everyone this upgrade when you made an account...My Bad. The Social account lets you comment and like post as well as select favorite friends or hide friends.

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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Post by joneath »

mustpax wrote: post #3

Very well designed, would be especially delightful on an iPad type device. Using Chrome on a Mac though, nothing happens when I click on images from my feed. I'd expect that to at least preview a larger version, or maybe take me to the post itself.

There is actually optimized versions for iPad and mobile (iPhone and Android).

The photos in the feed do not open larger at this point. Still trying to work the black magic that is the Facebook API. The cursor pointer is some dev code that made it through to production be accident, whoops!

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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Post by naz »

Your email validation code is too strict.

From Wikipedia:

  The local-part of the e-mail address may use any of these ASCII characters:
  Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a–z, A–Z)
  Digits 0 to 9
  Characters ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~
  Character . (dot, period, full stop) provided that it is
  not the first or last character, and provided also that 
  it does not appear two or more times consecutively 
  (e.g. John..Doe@example.com).

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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Post by bluespace »

joneath wrote: post #2

It's been four months of hacking and now I am ready to show the world Portrit. Portrit brings you your Facebook friends in visual experience. Portrit is all about your friends photos and making the Facebook experience cleaner, quicker, and more fun. Create a account at http://portrit.com/create_account/ Use the key HN. Limited supply! I started working on Portrit because Facebook's photo service is junk and I wanted…

Wow this is pretty awesome. The photo perusing is quite fun with this UI.

In your Privacy Policy, you state that "We[you] only collect user analytics data. " For being more open with data, could you create some page within your application to report what bits of data you are storing about me?

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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Post by joneath »

bluespace wrote: post #7
joneath wrote: post #2

It's been four months of hacking and now I am ready to show the world Portrit. Portrit brings you your Facebook friends in visual experience. Portrit is all about your friends photos and making the Facebook experience cleaner, quicker, and more fun. Create a account at http://portrit.com/create_account/ Use the key HN. Limited supply! I started working on Portrit because Facebook's photo service is junk and I wanted…

Wow this is pretty awesome. The photo perusing is quite fun with this UI. In your Privacy Policy, you state that "We[you] only collect user analytics data. " For being more open with data, could you create some page within your application to report what bits of data you are storing about me?

I am using Google analytics to measure trafic as well as events. On the backend I store the email address the user used to create their account, their Facebook ID, favorite friend ID's, and hidden friend ID's. I wanted to be as private with data as possible. 95% of the code runs client side and never talks to the server.

I plan on updating both the privacy policy and the terms of service. I modeled them off of Digg's but I am no lawyer, I am a hacker :).

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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Post by joneath »

naz wrote: post #6

Your email validation code is too strict. From Wikipedia: The local-part of the e-mail address may use any of these ASCII characters: Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a–z, A–Z) Digits 0 to 9 Characters ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~ Character . (dot, period, full stop) provided that it is not the first or last character, and provided also that it does not appear two or more times consecutively (e.g. Jo…

Thanks, I will update the regex in the next release.

Re: Show HN: Portrit.com - My Visual Facebook Experience - Use Key HN

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Post by joneath »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #5

Too bad I do not have a FB account, but the screenshots look awesome. The stream page is kinda taking away from it, imo. I would focus 100% on photos.

This was definitely a conflict I had. I wanted to focus completely on photos but most test users wanted to be able to see their stream and comment/like. This is the most volatile feature in Portrit and will most likely change in the future.
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