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Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

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Re: Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

#41

Post by stevekemp »

One minor issue is that you don't escape the user-input provided when people submit titles to their image.

  * Create an album.
  * Upload N images.
  * On the result page click the "Edit" image link to get a form where you can set a title for that specific image.
  * Enter "[script] .. alert(3) .. [script]".
  * Marvel as the alert-box fires off when the image is re-viewed.
Otherwise good job.

(And you do escape input for the album title. So this looks like an oversight.)

Re: Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

#42

Post by kumarski »

Have you tried our app? http://Eversnapapp.com

Well done on your site. It's simple enough.

The difficulty in this space is that you have to be on as many platforms as possible. By definition, most events have users with multiple platforms. Android, IOS, etc...

We allow users to contribute to an album via Hashtag, emailing photos to a custom email address, and native mobile apps on android and IOS. This tends to be very difficult and even harder if you try to use trigger.io or sensatouch or a similar such system. Building native is hard.

Every month we see 2 to 3 new startups in this space.

Cheers.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

#44

Post by LukeShu »

irrationaljared wrote: post #12
gnownad wrote: post #11

I love this! Bit of feedback: if I were to use this to share photos taken for a client, I would love a way for my clients to be able to download all the photos in one go.

Yes, that is the biggest feature people have asked for. I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it. Quick question. Would it be ok if you clicked a link and then it emailed you a bit later when the download was ready?

You could do it how Github (at least used to) do the tarball downloads for specific commits. You would click the button, which would turn into a twirling thing, the server would generate the file, and it would use ajax to actually start the download once it was ready.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

#45

Post by irrationaljared »

stevekemp wrote: post #41

One minor issue is that you don't escape the user-input provided when people submit titles to their image. * Create an album. * Upload N images. * On the result page click the "Edit" image link to get a form where you can set a title for that specific image. * Enter "[script] .. alert(3) .. [script]". * Marvel as the alert-box fires off when the image is re-viewed. Otherwise good job. (And you do escape input for the…

Thank you for reporting this. It was an oversight. It should be fixed now.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

#46

Post by Shalle »

The layout for "Allow others to add photos to this album?" option doesn't seem very natural. Personally, I first tried to click Yes to toggle it on/off took me about 10s or so to see that it actually was 1 yes and 1 no button, naturally I thought it was 2 different settings.

But yeah might just be because I'm so used to iOS but who knows.

When I try to get a full-size version of my picture after uploading it I get an error message:

"We're sorry, but something went wrong.

If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

#47

Post by irrationaljared »

Shalle wrote: post #46

The layout for "Allow others to add photos to this album?" option doesn't seem very natural. Personally, I first tried to click Yes to toggle it on/off took me about 10s or so to see that it actually was 1 yes and 1 no button, naturally I thought it was 2 different settings. But yeah might just be because I'm so used to iOS but who knows. When I try to get a full-size version of my picture after uploading it I get an…

Thank you for that feedback. I'll play around with some different ways of showing the collaboration option.

I was just making some changes to the site to fix a bug and introduced another bug :) It should be fixed now.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

#48

Post by forrestthewoods »

irrationaljared wrote: post #20
forrestthewoods wrote: post #17

Looks great. I'd love a way to view full resolution images without having to download it.

Good to know. That wouldn't be too hard to add. Out of curiosity why do you want to view the full-resolution photos vs. the ones that are scaled to fit your screen?

It's mostly due to the fact that the scaled version is only the middle ~50% of my 1920x1080 screen. I suppose what I might really want is scaled, full screen, and original.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing

#50

Post by adventured »

It's very nice. I'll consider using it and watch as it hopefully evolves.

Just one critique. It looks a little too... neat (like it hasn't been lived in). The images on the home page that are so integral to the look, come across as stock photo'ish (even though I'm guessing they're not). It might just be that the three home photos look like they're from the same family trip.

Also an aside - and I hate this part - get yourself a privacy / terms / dmca / takedown request section as soon as reasonably possible. If you plan to let the public have at this, you're going to get all sorts of terrible shit uploaded sooner than later. You can probably mostly clone Imgur on this.

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