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

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Post by brlewis »

dfischer wrote: post #44

Is there anything else on the market that is similar to this? I'm just curious for comparisons. I'm definitely hesitant to use this because of lack of pricing, and I also have no idea what's "smart" about this besides it being organized by date. I don't want to upload 1,000 photos and see it in action. Show me examples on the site. There's no easy way of sharing photos either which is a deal breaker for now.

My site http://ourdoings.com/ also organizes by date, and there are samples on the front page you can click through to see different people's timelines.

However, I think Snapjoy's right to tell people to upload their own photos to see it in action. To me, 2005/December means Puerto Rico. For it to mean that to you I have to tag/caption/etc. Upload 1,000 of your own photos and you'll see how easy it is to have a navigable, varied, enjoyable collection. (That sentence applies to any site that organizes by date and uses any algorithm to mitigate the too-many-redundant-photos problem).

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

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Post by rorrr »

iaskwhy wrote: post #45
rorrr wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, can you just tell us what the features are?

Why can't you try it instead? It's free... There's at least some work by the algo to recognise different moments of the same day, I still need to upload more pictures to try to understand it correctly.

You want me to upload a thousand photos to see how it works? :)

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

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Post by brlewis »

rorrr wrote: post #52
iaskwhy wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why can't you try it instead? It's free... There's at least some work by the algo to recognise different moments of the same day, I still need to upload more pictures to try to understand it correctly.

You want me to upload a thousand photos to see how it works? :)

As someone who runs another photo sharing site that organizes for you by date, I can say yes.

First, it's important to know that uploading a thousand photos is way easier on such a site, since you do no organizing work. Try uploading a thousand photos to Flickr without culling, organizing into albums, tagging and captioning, and see what your result looks like. It doesn't have to be like that.

Second, they have to be your photos for you to appreciate chronological organization. When I look at my own, I can say, "Wow, I just click 2005, then December and I see my Puerto Rico pictures. And I didn't have to organize them myself." You don't get the same effect looking at someone else's.

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

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Post by zeedog »

jpren wrote: post #3
blazamos wrote: post #2

Feature request: allow me to pull all of my photos from my current Flickr account via their API.

We have a lot of great ideas brewing around pulling your photos from other services. Stay tuned!

The feature to avoid duplicates will be a huge help when importing from those other services.

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

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Post by brlewis »

zeedog wrote: post #56
jpren wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have a lot of great ideas brewing around pulling your photos from other services. Stay tuned!

The feature to avoid duplicates will be a huge help when importing from those other services.

It will be tough to detect duplicates from Facebook, where they recompress and strip metadata.

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

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Post by iaskwhy »

rorrr wrote: post #52
iaskwhy wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why can't you try it instead? It's free... There's at least some work by the algo to recognise different moments of the same day, I still need to upload more pictures to try to understand it correctly.

You want me to upload a thousand photos to see how it works? :)

You need that many to understand the basics of the algo behind it? If that's how you debug your code than you might need to learn some better ways to do it...
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