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Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

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Post by izacus »

matevzpetek wrote: post #33
kevrone wrote: post #25

Interesting idea. A couple of suggestions: 1) Don't do the auto countdown thing with the camera. Just let me take a picture. 2) My knee jerk reaction when I received a photo was to ping my friend for another one right away. In fact all my friends did this until we got fed up with each other. Maybe limit pings to once an hour or something. 3) Give comments more focus. If someone sends me a photo I want to interact wit…

1)if you tap on the picture while countdown you skip 3-2-1

The autocountdown thing is still horrible, because it can take more than 3 seconds to focus image in some cases (especially on Android devices).

In like 50% of cases when tapping on ping notification I end up with either blurry image of my feed or a blurry image of something else.

Also I don't really see what kind of value that counter adds to anything.

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

#42

Post by mkaziz »

doesnt_know wrote: post #40

Instead of creeps silently going through photo feeds, they can directly ping you for more photos! Seriously though, I hope this idea catches on and it can possibly be the start of a trend of social media users becoming more "humble". It would be nice to see things flipped on it's head and move away from the push model of "here I am, here is a constant stream of useless shit about me".

Agreed. I definitely think this is the sort of thing that would encourage you to share photos with your close friends (would you ping a random stranger for updates?). Think many smaller circles, instead of gigantic newsfeeds.

However, by nature of that alone, photos thusly shared are more likely to be of a private sort. I'm curious about what level of privacy these guys will offer and how they intend to back it up.

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

#43

Post by fharper1961 »

I really liked the idea, so I just tried it out on my android tablet. Of course critical social networking mass isn't there yet, so I wanted to invite some friends.

Here are a couple of things I noticed * It took me a while to figure out that the app wanted to send invitations via SMS, which of course want working on my tablet. * you can't uninvite the people you've invited (tapping should toggle the invite state) * there isn't any OK button to send the invites.

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

#44

Post by matevzpetek »

hablahaha wrote: post #35
matevzpetek wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I did read in the story you were a world class snowboarder which is awesome. I was just trying to say that I'm disappointed with the quality of the story that TechCrunch has published about your product. It's not very well written and didn't explain your product well. But it doesn't reflect poorly on you, just on TechCrunch. Best wishes and good luck!

Thank you

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

#45

Post by skralj »

izacus wrote: post #41
matevzpetek wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1)if you tap on the picture while countdown you skip 3-2-1

The autocountdown thing is still horrible, because it can take more than 3 seconds to focus image in some cases (especially on Android devices). In like 50% of cases when tapping on ping notification I end up with either blurry image of my feed or a blurry image of something else. Also I don't really see what kind of value that counter adds to anything.

You can tap&hold on screen while countdown, when you release the screen it will immediately take a picture - so by holding the screen for more than 3 seconds you can overcome this. But there's still lots of room for improvement.

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

#46

Post by jernejz »

izacus wrote: post #41
matevzpetek wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1)if you tap on the picture while countdown you skip 3-2-1

The autocountdown thing is still horrible, because it can take more than 3 seconds to focus image in some cases (especially on Android devices). In like 50% of cases when tapping on ping notification I end up with either blurry image of my feed or a blurry image of something else. Also I don't really see what kind of value that counter adds to anything.

You can also "press-and-hold" on the picture. And when you lift the finger the photo is taken. Counter is pretty sweet when you get used to it, believe me :)

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

#47

Post by ch4s3 »

doesnt_know wrote: post #40

Instead of creeps silently going through photo feeds, they can directly ping you for more photos! Seriously though, I hope this idea catches on and it can possibly be the start of a trend of social media users becoming more "humble". It would be nice to see things flipped on it's head and move away from the push model of "here I am, here is a constant stream of useless shit about me".

I was really excited for the same reason. Sadly, it seems all of my friends are either too old or disinterested to be on Povio. I had a serious forever alone moment when I fired it up.

Re: Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

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Post by tonyarkles »

mkhalil wrote: post #39

"Photo apps today are about a traditional feed model — you post, and it gets pushed out. The problem with that is it does not work terribly well with shy people – and into that category fall millions of teenagers." Shy people still won't ping others. Don't see how this will solve that problem. Oh well.

Shy people will get pinged by their friends and feel like they've been invited to share. I think that's what they're getting at, not positive.
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