Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users

flickraft.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 70 posts

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users

#11

Post by masukomi »

zalew wrote: post #7

I fail to see how Flickr is a 'sinking ship'. btw to all the photo app creators out there: no API - no go.

Yeah, I have to agree on both points. I feel like I missed a memo about Flickr going down. AFAIK Flickr isn't even leaking, never-mind sinking... Am I wrong? Have I missed something?

And API is one of the things that makes Flickr great, Snapjoy may have a sweet web interface but that's not enough. I'm guessing from the fact that they have a GitHub account that they'll release an API when the code has settled down a bit more internally, so that's probably just a short-term issue.

The pricing though... the pricing isn't even remotely comparable. You gotta give me a damn good reason to spend that much more money on a competing tool that basically just hosts my images and makes them easily viewable.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users

#13

Post by shashashasha »

masukomi wrote: post #11
zalew wrote: post #7

I fail to see how Flickr is a 'sinking ship'. btw to all the photo app creators out there: no API - no go.

Yeah, I have to agree on both points. I feel like I missed a memo about Flickr going down. AFAIK Flickr isn't even leaking, never-mind sinking... Am I wrong? Have I missed something? And API is one of the things that makes Flickr great, Snapjoy may have a sweet web interface but that's not enough. I'm guessing from the fact that they have a GitHub account that they'll release an API when the code has settled down a b…

Having been around conversations with some of the old Flickr people, I have to disagree. It's definitely sinking, and has been slowly gutted over the past few years. This is only the most recent piece of news: http://nolancaudill.com/2012/01/30/the-front-line/

All of the core Flickr people have left, and some (like Aaron Straup Cope) are starting to build their own: http://straup.github.com/parallel-flickr/ http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2011/10/14/pixelspace/#para...

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users

#15

Post by justincormack »

aresant wrote: post #10

Snapfish, DropBox, and several of the other large photo / filing sharing sites are essentially a UI for Amazon's S3 cloud. I pay for dropbox primarily to store family photos & videos. In fact the stuff I need to back-up that fits outside that category would fit in a free, or lower priced dropbox plan. I would switch based on price alone since photos are fairly static, non-changing, and the #1 concern is that they sur…

More interested in something like open photo that is just forkable software and I pay for S3 http://theopenphotoproject.org/

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users

#17

Post by mlapida »

On the surface I love this idea. Flickr has been stagnant for years and starting to worry me. I don't mind paying for a photo sharing service but the market sure is saturated. I'll be looking for a little more than a pretty, overpriced UI over Amazon's S3.

Wouldn't it be great if a company came around and offered front ends for S3. One for photo sharing, one for docs. You could switch them out like skins. Your data is in one place and never moves. If a competitor comes along with a better front-end, you could change to them.

That would also be nice, because then you could have one monthly fee for all of you online storage needs. Let's be honest, they're all hosted by Amazon anyway.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users

#18

Post by mortenjorck »

masukomi wrote: post #11
zalew wrote: post #7

I fail to see how Flickr is a 'sinking ship'. btw to all the photo app creators out there: no API - no go.

Yeah, I have to agree on both points. I feel like I missed a memo about Flickr going down. AFAIK Flickr isn't even leaking, never-mind sinking... Am I wrong? Have I missed something? And API is one of the things that makes Flickr great, Snapjoy may have a sweet web interface but that's not enough. I'm guessing from the fact that they have a GitHub account that they'll release an API when the code has settled down a b…

If I used Flickr for photo storage, I might consider leaving, however, I have hard drives for that. I use Flickr for the community, and until some other site even begins to approach the number of talented photographers that Flickr's userbase has, I have no intention of bailing.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users

#20

Post by zalew »

shashashasha wrote: post #13
masukomi wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I have to agree on both points. I feel like I missed a memo about Flickr going down. AFAIK Flickr isn't even leaking, never-mind sinking... Am I wrong? Have I missed something? And API is one of the things that makes Flickr great, Snapjoy may have a sweet web interface but that's not enough. I'm guessing from the fact that they have a GitHub account that they'll release an API when the code has settled down a b…

Having been around conversations with some of the old Flickr people, I have to disagree. It's definitely sinking, and has been slowly gutted over the past few years. This is only the most recent piece of news: http://nolancaudill.com/2012/01/30/the-front-line/ All of the core Flickr people have left, and some (like Aaron Straup Cope) are starting to build their own: http://straup.github.com/parallel-flickr/ http://ww…

> It's definitely sinking

opinion != fact

existing alternatives != original sinking

I'm not a fan of Yahoo either, but all I hear is that is sinking because somebody got fired, or it's sinking because someone on a blog wrote that he doesn't like it no more.

So what there's pararell or whatever other apps to backup or sync? I've started making sth similar for django http://zalew.net/2012/01/11/django-flickr/ and what that has to do with Flickr failing?

BTW remember 'dying blog platforms' by Posterous?

Post reply on HN