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Re: Show HN: launching photosite next week, please give us cruel feedback

#11

Post by eqdw »

I'm friend of one of your developers. I've had alpha access for like a month or so. I've chatted him a bit about the project, but I'll give you some feedback directly.

In short, I think your project is cool but I don't think it is for me. As far as I can tell, you're trying to do a sort of dropbox-style thing, except with images. That's pretty cool (especially the unlimited free storage), but for me I am not really interested. I just don't see the purpose of putting things into the cloud, just because. I have a lot of local storage, and the local storage is faster, and (usually) larger, and not very expensive at all. Sure I run the risk of losing my pictures to a hardware failure, but I mean, oh well, guess I won't have my curated 4chan content anymore.

Overall I think this is pretty cool.

Re: Show HN: launching photosite next week, please give us cruel feedback

#12

Post by petervandijck »

avree wrote: post #10

I didn't sign up. I've already signed up for Snapjoy, and a slue of other photo apps. I went to your page and couldn't figure out what your product actually was—what the value add was. This was compounded by the fact that your "handwritten" font choice is impossible to read : "hackers pet invites faster" is what it looks like at the bottom. Your "Sign In" button is below the fold—this is going to hurt user engagement…

Thanks for the feedback, we'll try to make stuff more clear on that page. Clear writing is hard. Thanks for the pointer to Snapjoy discussion too :)

(Gush founder here)

Re: Show HN: launching photosite next week, please give us cruel feedback

#13

Post by petervandijck »

bigohms wrote: post #9

Scammy to ask me to link to FB, give you access to everything, then make me "wait for an invite" or try to get 3 friends to advance my spot.

(founder here) We're not trying to be scammy, it's more so that when you do finally log in, your photos will already be there. But yes, it's definitely something we should work on.

You can easily skip that step though, no harm done.

Re: Show HN: launching photosite next week, please give us cruel feedback

#14

Post by bigohms »

petervandijck wrote: post #13
bigohms wrote: post #9

Scammy to ask me to link to FB, give you access to everything, then make me "wait for an invite" or try to get 3 friends to advance my spot.

(founder here) We're not trying to be scammy, it's more so that when you do finally log in, your photos will already be there. But yes, it's definitely something we should work on. You can easily skip that step though, no harm done.

Really? And where's the call to action for that? I see a text input box, two buttons for Sharing on FB and Twitter. I also don't understand the significance of the 1-2-3 step indicator. From a UI perspective it doesn't tell me where I am.

Why would I share this to my entire social graph, risking my reputation, if I haven't vetted the product?

Re: Show HN: launching photosite next week, please give us cruel feedback

#15

Post by petervandijck »

eqdw wrote: post #11

I'm friend of one of your developers. I've had alpha access for like a month or so. I've chatted him a bit about the project, but I'll give you some feedback directly. In short, I think your project is cool but I don't think it is for me. As far as I can tell, you're trying to do a sort of dropbox-style thing, except with images. That's pretty cool (especially the unlimited free storage), but for me I am not really i…

Hey, thanks for the feedback :) If it's not for you, that's fine, such is life. I think it's more for people with pictures of their kids and stuff, they tend to care more about not losing them and having them all in one place etc. Thanks again for the comment!

Re: Show HN: launching photosite next week, please give us cruel feedback

#16

Post by bigohms »

petervandijck wrote: post #13
bigohms wrote: post #9

Scammy to ask me to link to FB, give you access to everything, then make me "wait for an invite" or try to get 3 friends to advance my spot.

(founder here) We're not trying to be scammy, it's more so that when you do finally log in, your photos will already be there. But yes, it's definitely something we should work on. You can easily skip that step though, no harm done.

Also, after receiving an invite, I am urged to create an account and then there is "One last step!"?!???! What's the step? Download a tiny program that watches my computer and uploads photos that it finds. REALLY? Yes, I will be skipping that step.

In the app, it seems to have lost my album structure.

On the upside, the app is FAST.

Now, where is the account delete function?

Re: Show HN: launching photosite next week, please give us cruel feedback

#17

Post by lanna »

hopeless wrote: post #6

"Free with no limits" That right there is why I won't go anywhere near your site. Sorry, but why would I invest my time and energy, and photos, and inviting friends etc if you've got no visible means of supporting yourself? There's a reason I pay good money to Smugmug. That aside, I have no idea why I would want all my photos on the one site. Is this the "one ring to rule them all"? Do you expect me to point friends,…

Google Search is also free with no limits. Don't you use them? :-)

Re: Show HN: launching photosite next week, please give us cruel feedback

#18

Post by petervandijck »

hopeless wrote: post #6

"Free with no limits" That right there is why I won't go anywhere near your site. Sorry, but why would I invest my time and energy, and photos, and inviting friends etc if you've got no visible means of supporting yourself? There's a reason I pay good money to Smugmug. That aside, I have no idea why I would want all my photos on the one site. Is this the "one ring to rule them all"? Do you expect me to point friends,…

I can explain the free with no limits here. We put no limits on the amount of photos that you can upload. We do put limits on the amount of pixels per photo that we'll store. So we may not store your full-size photo (although we'll store a pretty good version), and that lets us offer this for free (storage is really cheap).

Re: Show HN: launching photosite next week, please give us cruel feedback

#19

Post by petervandijck »

bigohms wrote: post #16
petervandijck wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(founder here) We're not trying to be scammy, it's more so that when you do finally log in, your photos will already be there. But yes, it's definitely something we should work on. You can easily skip that step though, no harm done.

Also, after receiving an invite, I am urged to create an account and then there is "One last step!"?!???! What's the step? Download a tiny program that watches my computer and uploads photos that it finds. REALLY? Yes, I will be skipping that step. In the app, it seems to have lost my album structure. On the upside, the app is FAST. Now, where is the account delete function?

We're adding that before launch :) We're gonna add the Facebook album structure back in as well. (founder here). Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: launching photosite next week, please give us cruel feedback

#20

Post by petervandijck »

bigohms wrote: post #14
petervandijck wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(founder here) We're not trying to be scammy, it's more so that when you do finally log in, your photos will already be there. But yes, it's definitely something we should work on. You can easily skip that step though, no harm done.

Really? And where's the call to action for that? I see a text input box, two buttons for Sharing on FB and Twitter. I also don't understand the significance of the 1-2-3 step indicator. From a UI perspective it doesn't tell me where I am. Why would I share this to my entire social graph, risking my reputation, if I haven't vetted the product?

We have to improve that page, yes. We're not trying to share anything to your social graph, just to privately import your photos. Gotta make that more clear. Thanks for the feedback, good stuff! (founder here)
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