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

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Post by jeffreymcmanus » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 11:25 PM UTC

ssharp wrote: post #25

This is tacky on two levels: 1) it just attacks flickr without really giving any reason. Flickr is a sinking ship. Great. Why? Why do we have any reason to believe Snapjoy is going to outlast Flickr? 2) Using the image of a sinking cruise ship weeks after a cruise ship wreck killed at least 17 people. I'm not easily offended, and this didn't personally offend me, but it's pretty much the first thing I thought of when…

It's not "tacky," it's business. Products are not your friends. They don't have feelings.

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

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Post by jeffreymcmanus » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 11:26 PM UTC

RandallBrown wrote: post #29

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.

Would you say Yahoo is a sinking ship? Yahoo owns Flickr.

that's kind of the point.

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

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Post by snowmaker » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 11:39 PM UTC

I love the infographic and the one-sentence pitch. It's funny, it's totally clear why I should use it, and I'll never forget it.

People here are saying that they're jumping the gun and Flickr isn't sinking yet. Maybe that's true. But great marketing can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and that's what this looks like to me.

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

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Post by antidaily » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 11:48 PM UTC

Annnnnd Flickr just blocked their API key. https://twitter.com/#!/garrytan/status/167030905821605888

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

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Post by mvanveen » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 11:52 PM UTC

This is not unprecedented. We did this years ago with Zooomr. There was a tech crunch post about it: http://techcrunch.com/2006/06/16/why-is-flickr-afraid-of-zoo...

Many Flickr users were not happy when they discovered that the ability to migrate their accounts was considered "burn[ing] bandwidth and CPU cycles."

My co-founder, Kris, was quoted with the following:

> Tate from Zooomr says that the exports are a cost of doing business, that Web 2.0 is where “the roach motel stops” and that Zooomr will always make it easy for their customers to take their data elsewhere

Props to Snapjoy for creating an awesome product and giving people freedom. I hope that you guys get your license key back!

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

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Post by mvanveen » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 11:59 PM UTC

ssharp wrote: post #25

This is tacky on two levels: 1) it just attacks flickr without really giving any reason. Flickr is a sinking ship. Great. Why? Why do we have any reason to believe Snapjoy is going to outlast Flickr? 2) Using the image of a sinking cruise ship weeks after a cruise ship wreck killed at least 17 people. I'm not easily offended, and this didn't personally offend me, but it's pretty much the first thing I thought of when…

> Flickr is a sinking ship. Great. Why? Why do we have any reason to believe Snapjoy is going to outlast Flickr?

  s/Flickr/del\.icio\.us/g
  s/SnapJoy/pinboard/g

For the regex-impaired, swap Flickr with delicious and Snapjoy with pinboard.

When I found out that del.icio.us was falling apart, the discovery of pinboard was a remarkable discovery! The founder posted a link to a migration tool that allowed me painlessly keep thousands of my old bookmarks. Just by itself that was reason enough for me to support them.

I can't speak to the long term viability of pinboard or SnapJoy, but that's true of a lot of web services, frankly. A few years ago you would've seemed crazy for calling Flickr a "sinking ship."

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

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Post by zalew » Wed, Feb 08, 2012, 12:01 AM UTC

antidaily wrote: post #44

Annnnnd Flickr just blocked their API key. https://twitter.com/#!/garrytan/status/167030905821605888

because they hit their query per hour limits.

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

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Post by mlapida » Wed, Feb 08, 2012, 12:12 AM UTC

subpixel wrote: post #28

mlapida wrote: post #17

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 i…

openphoto.me is what you're describing

giving it a whirl now. thanks!

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

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Post by nicksergeant » Wed, Feb 08, 2012, 12:14 AM UTC

RandallBrown wrote: post #29

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.

Would you say Yahoo is a sinking ship? Yahoo owns Flickr.

Yes, Yahoo! does appear to be a sinking ship, by all accounts.

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

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Post by arctangent » Wed, Feb 08, 2012, 12:19 AM UTC

nicksergeant wrote: post #49

RandallBrown wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you say Yahoo is a sinking ship? Yahoo owns Flickr.

Yes, Yahoo! does appear to be a sinking ship, by all accounts.

Albeit a very large ship that will take a long time to sink.