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Everpix is Shutting Down

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Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

#31
Sigh, I really liked Everpix. I was just about to move some of my older data into the cloud and "go full in". This is really sad to hear. You guys build a great product, sad to see it go.

Edit: I purchased the yearly $40 plan and would definitely have continued paying / using.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

#32

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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...

Every time a startup I like fails I find myself less and less likely to use another one.

Everpix was really really easy and I would have been happy to pay double what I was for it, its a real shame to see it shut down.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

#33
post #8

I've never used Everpix ... though I considered signing up a while back due to the critical acclaim they seemed to have achieved. But I've given up hosting my photos with paid services. The best alternative I've found is Koken. It is free software you host yourself, and provides great interface to manage, publish, and share your photos. Additionally, they have plugins from Lightroom to publish directly from your desk…

Thanks for that. I'd never heard of Koken but it looks very good.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

#34
Amazon Glacier seems applicable at this point: around $1000/mo to archive the entire Everpix collection, then work out (cheap) pricing for people to retrieve their photos. Just a thought, pursuant to not losing everything outright.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

#35

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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.

I've stored a lot of images on Everpix that I actually may not have on other physical media here anymore. Can you confirm that you're going to allow exporting of data? Otherwise I'd set out now and write an export-script that downloads all my data, I'd rather not invest that time though.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

#36
post #5

Everpix 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?

http://www.picturelife.com seems the most similar.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

#37

I 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…

It was a 'this day in history' — not only was it one year ago, it was any photo taken on that day. Which was even more awesome. I have 15 year old photos in my library. It was really cool to slowly relive long-passed vacations and trips that way. Very sad to see them go.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

#38
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also http://www.zenfolio.com/

Will just say for anyone that never used Everpix that flickr, zenfolio and smugmug don't really do the same job. Yes they all host photos, but the whole point is that it's an automated process, imports from multiple sources and does magic like de-duplication.

sounds exactly like zenfolio, flickr etc. They all supposer set and forget and they all do duplicate detection. If they didn't and everpix had a real value proposition they might still be going.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

#39
post #21

Users of this service may want to consider setting up an installation of Trovebox (formerly OpenPhoto). You can grab the sources from https://github.com/photo and host it yourself, or sign up for a paid hosted account at https://trovebox.com/ .

Looks like the TroveBox hosted service has increase price dramatically, and going for a more professional market.
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