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Everpix is Shutting Down
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.dropbox.com/features/photos https://trovebox.com/ https://loom.com/ http://www.smugmug.com/ and of course, http://www.flickr.com/
One of the key features of Everpix was the "set and forget" capability. Also their dupe-detection was really good. Do any of those do that? I guess Dropbox is the most established... I'd hate to be in this same situation in a year from now with Loom...
I think Loom does.
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#23I can't help but think that their reliance on (very expensive) Amazon Web Services played a part in their collapse. It looks like they also failed to grow enough, but it should have been possible to sustain a paying service.
If you look at the figures in this verge article it looks like the S3 costs were almost immaterial.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-d...
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#24I can't help but think that their reliance on (very expensive) Amazon Web Services played a part in their collapse. It looks like they also failed to grow enough, but it should have been possible to sustain a paying service.
If you look at the figures in this verge article it looks like the S3 costs were almost immaterial. http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-d...
That's right. AWS infrastructures costs were already being covered by subscription income. We also had prototypes ready to flesh out to reduce per-user costs as we scale up, but were not at that point yet.
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#25Everpix was one of the best $5/month I spent. I would have been willing to spend far more for their services. I wish they would have tried to bump the price up to save the service. Having one place for all my photos made me exceptionally happy. Even my wife absolutely loved Everpix. I guess I need to find an alternative... what are they?
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#26I really liked Everpix as a "fire and forget" method for backing up my photos. It's a shame they're shutting down. As an alternative I'll probably switch to Dropbox, who have been improving their 'photo upload' features, one of which is the ability to automatically upload from iPhoto (similar to how Everpix did it). One of my favourite features in Everpix was the "1 year ago today" emails they sent, which picked a fe…
Agreed. Getting a daily Everpix Flashback email was the reason I chose to subscribe to Everpix.
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#27This sounds cruel, but Everpix was effectively operating as a Ponzi scheme. They offered services (photo storage) that they couldn't afford unless new money came in. Then the money stopped.
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#28Perspective:
"Blogger was a success and quickly gained traction. But unlike their enterprise product, Blogger had no way of making money. Pyra Labs eventually had to lay off all of their staff as the money ran out. For a year, Ev worked on Blogger by himself in order to keep the site online. After a year of struggling to keep the site afloat, Blogger eventually started to make some money. Google would eventually make Blogger it’s first acquisition."
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#29Just signed up less than 12 hours ago. Cool.
Same here. The last of my 50,000+ photos just finished uploading. Just my luck.
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#30This sounds cruel, but Everpix was effectively operating as a Ponzi scheme. They offered services (photo storage) that they couldn't afford unless new money came in. Then the money stopped.
Actually, Everpix was making around $40K / month from subscription revenue covering the infrastructure costs for both free and paid users with some margin. The problem is (obviously) having enough to cover fixed costs as well i.e. mostly personnel costs.