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Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Post by mrkurt »

dschobel wrote: post #20

Glad that the TC article touches on it, but with the track record of YC company acquisitions and killing products (yes yes, I realize dropbox is an exception), it really feels like a leap of faith to trust a YC associated backup service. I can deal with having to export my files in case of acquisition, but it will keep me from suggesting this service (which sounds awesome, by the way) to non-technical friends and fam…

Have there been companies that were acquired and just shut down/deleted everything? The ones I've seen just said "we're ceasing operations in 90 days, please back your data up".

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Post by mahyarm »

Both Kicksend and Snapjoy insist on Real Names, very irritating. (Is it a YC trend?) Will you purge accounts that don't use them G+ style? Will I upload a bunch of files, have them no where else (your average person) and then find out they've disappeared one day because of an inane real name policy with no recourse? How about if I don't have a last name, and have to make one up to fill out your form? You'll get real names with payed accounts, but it's otherwise unwelcome.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Post by megablast »

mrkurt wrote: post #21
dschobel wrote: post #20

Glad that the TC article touches on it, but with the track record of YC company acquisitions and killing products (yes yes, I realize dropbox is an exception), it really feels like a leap of faith to trust a YC associated backup service. I can deal with having to export my files in case of acquisition, but it will keep me from suggesting this service (which sounds awesome, by the way) to non-technical friends and fam…

Have there been companies that were acquired and just shut down/deleted everything? The ones I've seen just said "we're ceasing operations in 90 days, please back your data up".

That is a solution for these companies, but still leads to distrust. You use a backup service so you can leave your files on the site and not worry about it. This is the problem yc companies now face.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Post by michaeldwan »

dschobel wrote: post #20

Glad that the TC article touches on it, but with the track record of YC company acquisitions and killing products (yes yes, I realize dropbox is an exception), it really feels like a leap of faith to trust a YC associated backup service. I can deal with having to export my files in case of acquisition, but it will keep me from suggesting this service (which sounds awesome, by the way) to non-technical friends and fam…

We hear ya. Building trust takes time. If it means anything though, we built Snapjoy to scratch our own itch, not to flip.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Post by grandalf »

jpren wrote: post #15
grandalf wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow. I think you've just solved my "photo problem". What about if I have more photos than hard drive space?

That's cool. We can provide you virtually unlimited storage for your authoritative photo collection on our servers.

We can provide you virtually unlimited storage for your authoritative photo collection on our servers.

That is what I've been looking for, along with a way to have multiple computers "own" the photos and use them off of the local hard drive as needed (such as to order prints, etc.)

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Post by jasonmccay »

dschobel wrote: post #20

Glad that the TC article touches on it, but with the track record of YC company acquisitions and killing products (yes yes, I realize dropbox is an exception), it really feels like a leap of faith to trust a YC associated backup service. I can deal with having to export my files in case of acquisition, but it will keep me from suggesting this service (which sounds awesome, by the way) to non-technical friends and fam…

So, in the inverse, if it were not a YC-associated company, you would trust that company more or less? Regardless of your opinion of Flickr, I did not fear the future of my photos when Yahoo! acquired them. Last I checked, they were still there.

That aside, I do see your point, but to say that you will not recommend a really nice service to your friends and family on the sole basis that they are a YC company seems odd.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Post by pgbovine »

EwanG wrote: post #18

My feature requests (as they have been for every service I've tried from Flickr, to 500px, to Smugmug): 1) Let me upload my RAWs. Better if you can display them as is, but at least do what Adobe does and show the embedded JPEG if not. 2) Allow me to edit online with HTML5 compatible tools (Adobe's online service will let you edit, but uses Flash for some odd reason). With that I can edit from the road using my iPad.…

I'm just speculating here, but perhaps their primary target audience are casual users, not serious photographers. It seems like most of your feature requests are geared towards power users.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Post by abstractbill »

megablast wrote: post #23
mrkurt wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have there been companies that were acquired and just shut down/deleted everything? The ones I've seen just said "we're ceasing operations in 90 days, please back your data up".

That is a solution for these companies, but still leads to distrust. You use a backup service so you can leave your files on the site and not worry about it. This is the problem yc companies now face.

This is the problem yc companies now face.

It sounds like you're describing a problem all startups face.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Post by dschobel »

mrkurt wrote: post #21
dschobel wrote: post #20

Glad that the TC article touches on it, but with the track record of YC company acquisitions and killing products (yes yes, I realize dropbox is an exception), it really feels like a leap of faith to trust a YC associated backup service. I can deal with having to export my files in case of acquisition, but it will keep me from suggesting this service (which sounds awesome, by the way) to non-technical friends and fam…

Have there been companies that were acquired and just shut down/deleted everything? The ones I've seen just said "we're ceasing operations in 90 days, please back your data up".

My concern isn't their vanishing overnight.

My concern is recommending the service to my 70 year old father and getting a confused phone call from him about why his bookmarks are broken and instead lead to an acquisition notice and then having to walk him through the export process.

In other words, the value to me in recommending these services to my friends and family is 1) that they'll use them and see some benefit and 2) that I won't have to support it.

And, at the risk of getting all patio11, you know who spends a lot of time organizing photos? Older folks and housewives; NOT Silicon Valley wunderkinds who are trying out the latest and greatest YC company which got a mention on TechCrunch. The problem this team will face is that you have technically literate people like me standing between them and the non-technical friends and family who will shell out $20/mo until the end of time to organize and share photos of their grandkids.

If this is just a tech demo before a FB acquisition, disregard the whole thing though. :)

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Post by cmwright »

cmwright wrote: post #13

This looks terrific, I've begun the task of uploading photos. Funny question to be asking on my first day I guess, but has anyone figured out how to delete photos once they're already up?

aha, figured it out. Hovering over the picture in certain bulk modes shows a check mark, clicking this checkmark brings up a bulk editing view where you can send to trash. I don't believe it's possible to delete single photos
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