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Storage for Photographers

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Re: Storage for Photographers

#101
post #93

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Professional photographers know they need to backup their photos. It looks like your product targeted consumers, but professionals seem like they'd be a better market. And it should have been priced way, way higher; the more it cost, the more secure it looks. I'd have a hard time trusting my money-making business assets to a $9/month service. Of course, I'm not a professional photographer nor do I have your experienc…

Actually, once we started getting into the market, we found that most do not know they need to do regular, offsite backups. Consider the some examples: * An older photographer who grew up in the days of film who has just transitioned over to digital. * A homemaker who is trying to add some much needed income for her family, with a passion but no formal training. * A well-off software developer who moonlights as a pho…

None of your examples contradict

"Professional photographers know they need to backup their photos."

A homemaker or techie moonlighting for extra income aren't really 'professional photographers'. They may take photographs that look professional, but it's not the same thing.

One might say that professional developers use version control, then have counter examples of "well, this web design student doesn't ever uer version control, but she's the only person working on the code, so it doesn't matter". This is not a professional developer, even if she is capable of producing results that look like they were done by a professional.

A professional, imo, is defined as much by their habits and practices as by the output.

Re: Storage for Photographers

#103
post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, once we started getting into the market, we found that most do not know they need to do regular, offsite backups. Consider the some examples: * An older photographer who grew up in the days of film who has just transitioned over to digital. * A homemaker who is trying to add some much needed income for her family, with a passion but no formal training. * A well-off software developer who moonlights as a pho…

None of your examples contradict "Professional photographers know they need to backup their photos." A homemaker or techie moonlighting for extra income aren't really 'professional photographers'. They may take photographs that look professional, but it's not the same thing. One might say that professional developers use version control, then have counter examples of "well, this web design student doesn't ever uer ve…

Your definition is not what defines the market.

Re: Storage for Photographers

#107
What about flickr and the insane free space they provide? you it's free now right?

searching is also a breeze there.

not sure how you'd go about downloading them all though...

Re: Storage for Photographers

#108
post #34

We applied to YC with exactly this idea. We made it to the interview, but were turned down. I wrote about that experience: http://tghw.com/blog/pull-hard We pulled our bootstraps hard and tried to get it going, but soon realized that there's a pretty big flaw with the idea: most photographers have no idea that they should backup their photos. They know hard drives crash, but they never expect it to happen to them. Th…

Yeah, you guys decided to push more efforts to blurity if I remember correctly.

Re: Storage for Photographers

#109
post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, once we started getting into the market, we found that most do not know they need to do regular, offsite backups. Consider the some examples: * An older photographer who grew up in the days of film who has just transitioned over to digital. * A homemaker who is trying to add some much needed income for her family, with a passion but no formal training. * A well-off software developer who moonlights as a pho…

None of your examples contradict "Professional photographers know they need to backup their photos." A homemaker or techie moonlighting for extra income aren't really 'professional photographers'. They may take photographs that look professional, but it's not the same thing. One might say that professional developers use version control, then have counter examples of "well, this web design student doesn't ever uer ve…

I smell a no true Scotsman fallacy.

Re: Storage for Photographers

#110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Local data can randomly disappear too - hard drives don't always fail in a predictable fashion. Personally, I prefer to use both local and cloud storage (encrypted, bien sûr).

I periodically mail a DVD of important stuff to my parents and ask them to toss it in the basement. You could do the same thing with backup tapes, or whatever. Drives/tape/flash/dvd is pretty damn cheap and easy. These S3 type solutions would have to be much cheaper to be interesting.

A DVD holds 4.7GB. Box.net offers 5GB for free.

Besides, how do you verify that those backups can be restored when you need them, if they're offline in some remote location? That seems rather untrustworthy to me. I run checks against parity files regularly to verify their integrity.

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