Everpix is Shutting Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by jonkelly » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:05 AM UTC

armandososa wrote: post #41

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…

Family photos are the only items I don't think should be stored on the cloud as they are too important and too large. About a year ago I bought 2 external drives and we back up our MacBook at home and in another location. You can get 2 multi-terabyte drives for a little over $200. Sounds like a lot more trouble than it is and provides a great sense of security that our pix are secure.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by acjohnson55 » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:21 AM UTC

ctdonath wrote: post #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.

Might not be a bad idea considering the user presumably still has their pictures on disk when they want to browse the whole collection.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by suchire » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:29 AM UTC

dirtyaura wrote: post #56

hospadam wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

The problem with Dropbox is that photos are eating space on my local hard drive, unless I manually manage them. Everpix was perfect from the syncing perspective. Sharing could have been improved and I think they should have put more effort to private sharing experience and that would have helped with growth too.

You can selectively unsync particular folders in your Dropbox Advanced Preferences; that's what I do with my Camera Uploads folder.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by sutterbomb » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 5:30 AM UTC

raghus wrote: post #80

https://www.thislife.com/ Pricing is here: https://www.thislife.com/pricing Disclosure: I work at SFLY

For clarity, raghus' disclosure was about working for Shutterfly, who acquired ThisLife earlier in 2013.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by rsl7 » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 6:07 AM UTC

suchire wrote: post #83

dirtyaura wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with Dropbox is that photos are eating space on my local hard drive, unless I manually manage them. Everpix was perfect from the syncing perspective. Sharing could have been improved and I think they should have put more effort to private sharing experience and that would have helped with growth too.

You can selectively unsync particular folders in your Dropbox Advanced Preferences; that's what I do with my Camera Uploads folder.

That still presents the problem of frequent uploads: you have to sync a folder on your hard drive, and then follow up with unsync when it gets too large, and then set up a new folder for the next batch.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by oceanic » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 7:31 AM UTC

ukd1 wrote: post #75

armandososa wrote: post #41

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…

Checkout Loom - https://loom.com

How likely is it that Loom will go out of business in a year too?

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 7:43 AM UTC

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?

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Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by jzzskijj » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 7:44 AM UTC

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?

I wish they would have tried to bump the price up to save the service.

The bump would have to been at least something like tenfold to solve anything. According to the article they were -$2,294,818.17 south at the end and their subscription revenue was only $254,060.57. I'm quite confident that would have eaten their 12.4 percent conversion ratio badly.

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by awad » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 8:20 AM UTC

swisspol wrote: post #30

libovness wrote: post #27

This 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.

The personnel costs of a 7 person startup really jumped out at me. Am I the only one that was surprised?

Re: Everpix is Shutting Down

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Post by gexla » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 9:12 AM UTC

armandososa wrote: post #41

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…

Consider this, the service probably would have been killed off one way or another. If it didn't die from a lack of funds, then it may have died from being shut down after being acquired.

I was pretty happy with clipboard.com for bookmarks. They didn't charge anything. The service got shut down after Salesforce gobbled them up.