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Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by DeusExMachina »

klyrs wrote: post #10
buildbot wrote: post #6

It’s kinda disappointing to hit a subscription screen right after sign up, wasn’t expecting that. I definitely would not try out a social network with a subscription fee without lots of experimenting first.

I kinda expected that -- they promise no ads, and they're going to host lots of big photos. How could they possibly offer that for free? I agree though, the subscription model should be clear before signup, without offering a few months for free, they're going to miss a lot of conversions.

This is not necessarily a bad business strategy.

At the beginning it can be better to focus on the people willing to pay up front. It allows you to test the market and to focus on the feedback of paying customers.

You can add free trials and optimize for revenue later.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by sswezey »

DocKitKat wrote: post #3
trymas wrote: post #2

> Photography Community Only for iPhone owners?

Pretty common for mobile apps to start on iOS only.

Especially since iOS users spend more money. From my experience, you can have equivalent apps for iOS and Android, yet the iOS version will drive 90% of revenue. If I were them I wouldn't bother creating an Android version until they've proven the model works with iOS. If it doesn't work with iOS, adding Android will only slow their dev velocity and increase their burn rate.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by saralily »

I don't get how a pro photo app is supposed to be mobile-only and subscription-gated. One of the greatest things about flickr is that I can embed it almost anywhere, even hotlinking on my blog or on forums, and anyone, anywhere can see it on any device. (And if I pay, they can see a 6k version, served on the web, not through a download link.) I am really, really into photography but I do not have any interest in viewing image galleries on my phone when I have a 27" iMac 5k and Flickr shows me over a decade of photos collected from every type of photography enthusiast.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by gmaster1440 »

ISL wrote: post #8

Does it interact with the open web? Are there examples of public-facing profiles one might see? As Instagram closes down its interoperability with the open web even further (try visiting pages in an Incognito window -- sign-in is rapidly required), it opens the door to photo-sharing sites that are better net-citizens.

They're currently working on a "Discover" feature, which will likely come to the native app before it's available on the web.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by marbletiles »

This falls uneasily between two stools for me. For a photography-focused space, it doesn't have anything like the wealth of photography tools and data that Flickr does (or even just EXIF). For a community space, it doesn't have bookmarking or nudging or sufficient interaction beyond comments to make that work for me either.

Both those things can be secondary if it's exposing you to great new work and new trends in photography, but the onboarding didn't bode well on that front: of all the photographers it suggested I follow there was one woman and one non-white person in the mix. That's not a slam dunk on their work but it did turn out (from what I can see) to all be in a very similar sort of "late-millennial white man with a mirrorless" niche.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by rednerrus »

danellis wrote: post #9

> No algorithms I don't like this particular lie. It seems like as soon as we find it acceptable to tell it, we get to choose how complex or user-hostile the algorithm gets to be while still telling the same lie.

Also, without an algorithm it's going to be useless. Tik Tok works because the algorithm allows you to find new creators.

Re: Glass – Photo sharing app and community

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Post by frostburg »

cge wrote: post #5
trymas wrote: post #2

> Photography Community Only for iPhone owners?

It certainly appears to be. That's a bit confusing, however. Every example photograph rather prominently notes the camera, not phone, it was taken with. The features seem primarily useful for camera-and-raw-processing photographers. The website doesn't seem to indicate that it's iPhone only, but the feedback section, and the lack of any way to log in or sign up other than the link to the iOS App Store, certainly sugg…

It's not a great workflow but everyone serious does it with instagram, too (even with phone photos, doing post on the phone is awful).
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