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Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by armandososa »

I'm a little ashamed to say that this is the first time the shutting down of a service almost brings me to tears. A couple months ago, burglars entered my house and stoled --among other valuable stuff-- our laptops (wife's and mine) our cameras and with them a lot of pictures from our first year married. While I was able to recover some from iCloud and Dropbox and instagram, my wife was crying hopelessly for the lost of her photos.

The truth is, handling photos and backups is hard and time consuming. I was so happy when I started using Everpix just last month. I was so sure that I will never have to worry about backups and storage and that my photos would be always safe. Naive, I know, but I wanted to believe.

Have they charged me $20 a month, I would have been more than happy to pay.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by berberous »

terhechte wrote: post #35
sameer_sundresh wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The FAQ on the site says that they will build an exporter, and that they will e-mail their users when the tool is ready.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by armandososa »

keithwarren wrote: post #40

If you were an Everpix fan I would love to hear from you, our startup Pivotal ( http://pivotal.ws ) is doing something very similar and we would love to hear what you liked and didnt like about Everpix and how you would make it better.

I liked everything about Everpix, except that they didn't charge enough to keep the lights on. Please don't make the same mistake. I'd want to trust you.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by Numberwang »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #9
hospadam wrote: 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?

https://www.dropbox.com/features/photos https://trovebox.com/ https://loom.com/ http://www.smugmug.com/ and of course, http://www.flickr.com/

Dropbox would be ridiculously expensive to host photos with. Not a valid option.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by timcederman »

hospadam wrote: 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?

backblaze.com

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by toomuchtodo »

Numberwang wrote: post #44
toomuchtodo wrote: post #9

Earlier 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/

Dropbox would be ridiculously expensive to host photos with. Not a valid option.

I'm sorry, I must have missed the link to the requirements document.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by ssharp »

Fuzzwah wrote: post #17

Eventually "growth hacking" is going to be replaced by "sustainable business plan hacking".

Tt doesn't sound like that was the issue here. They had a functional business model, as they have specifically said that their user revenues outpaced their customer acquisition and service costs. They had positive customer lifetime value. The issue was that they couldn't acquire enough customers to pay their overhead.

It's actually a case where "growth hacking" would have been good for them because they needed more users to justify their fixed costs.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by keithwarren »

armandososa wrote: post #43
keithwarren wrote: post #40

If you were an Everpix fan I would love to hear from you, our startup Pivotal ( http://pivotal.ws ) is doing something very similar and we would love to hear what you liked and didnt like about Everpix and how you would make it better.

I liked everything about Everpix, except that they didn't charge enough to keep the lights on. Please don't make the same mistake. I'd want to trust you.

We are looking at 9.95, 19.95 and 35.95 a month based on storage levels and other benefits.

The 'other' benefits is something that sets us apart, with our service you get to choose some photos each month and we will mail 3x5 copies to you (or you can have them sent to someone else like parents or grandparents), monthly merchandising deals like 75% off a photo book or calendar.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by keithwarren »

alariccole wrote: post #3

As someone who has been working on sort of a competitor...this makes me sad. Everpix was a great tool, such a great tool that it helped push my company in a different direction. I would've been very proud to build what they did.

Building a competitor as well (http://pivotal.ws)

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by nloui »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #9
hospadam wrote: 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?

https://www.dropbox.com/features/photos https://trovebox.com/ https://loom.com/ http://www.smugmug.com/ and of course, http://www.flickr.com/

I just rejoined Thislife.com, now part of Shutterfly. For Smugmug lovers, I also created Smugsync which will sync iPhoto to Smugmug => smugsync.net
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