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Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

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Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

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Post by irrationaljared »

Hi all, about a month ago my wife was complaining about how annoying all of the photo sharing services were. Either the UI was overly complicated or it would ask people to register for the service before they could view the photos, etc.

So I decided to build something dead-simple that she could use. There are no frills. You just create an album and email it around. The link goes directly to the photos.

It's not fancy at all (very utilitarian), but she appreciates it, so I thought I'd launch it as a full service and share it with people.

It's called SimpleNeat http://www.simpleneat.com

If people try it out feedback would be appreciated.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

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Post by irrationaljared »

irrationaljared wrote: post #2

Here's a clickable link: http://www.simpleneat.com

Also I should note that it works well in mobile safari. You can easily bulk upload photos from your mobile phone that way. I'll probably be making it in to a native app as well for the hell of it sometime soon.

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Post by kbouw »

Simple, useful, great UI and best of all no account required.

Awesome job.

Only question is regarding the switch between view-only and collaborative. When I choose to allow friends to contribute to the album, the provided link doesn't change.

I assume you have a view-only link and an edit link that is passed a var to allow people to modify it. How does this work in your application?

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Post by irrationaljared »

kbouw wrote: post #6

Simple, useful, great UI and best of all no account required. Awesome job. Only question is regarding the switch between view-only and collaborative. When I choose to allow friends to contribute to the album, the provided link doesn't change. I assume you have a view-only link and an edit link that is passed a var to allow people to modify it. How does this work in your application?

Yes, right now the "view-only" link becomes a collaborative album through a boolean set in the database. I'd be happy to create a separate url if you think that would make it more obvious.
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