Shutdown an entire service, and roll over to the guys that say you will work on a service that was your competitor till today. Seems like people don't care much about their sweat and tears these days.
People invest sweat and tears for something -- quite often material security/wealth -- I don't see how fully committing to the new source of security/wealth is undervaluing what they invested previously. Heck, wasting that previous investment by not doing so would seem more like not caring about it.
I'm sorry, but I think these startups just give other startups a bad name. I'm the CEO of Picturelife and I wouldn't dream of rolling over like this so easily. We have thousands of customers and just killing our service would be such an assault on their trust. All these services you mention are just taking the easy way out. There's a long road ahead for us and we'll going to keep making the product and experience bet…
I recently became aware of Picturelife, and the Everpix shutdown prompts me to ask: is Picturelife profitable? Everpix looked really great, and I was very close to signing up, but then they shut down. I'm glad I didn't just to see them shut down. I know you say you wouldn't roll over so easily (which is great!) but it ultimately comes down to whether you have a viable business, which Everpix clearly did not. If I sig…
Thanks and great question. Picturelife is not yet profitable but is headed in that direction. If all goes to plan, we can get to profitability by the end of the year. Nothing is a done deal, but that's the plan and I have a very, very high degree of confidence, based on current and history growth trends, that we can pull it off. Hope this helps!
Ha, is "giant" relative or what... I am currently at ~98% of my 215GB Dropbox account and am stressing about what to do. The next tier doesn't seem cost effective for me and I don't have much room for clearing house. One thought I have is converting a sizable portion of old Canon CR2 raw files to adobe DNG since I've noticed that reduces filesize by roughly 20% for the files that I have. This isn't really a long term…
What is your access pattern on that 215GB? Is there any of it that you don't touch for at least a month? There has been a lot of work in the past on hierarchical storage managers for Enterprise types but perhaps there is a market for one for regular users. Something that moves your data constantly into S3 or Glacier and then if you haven't used it on DropBox for a month it deletes it there, only to bring it back if y…
There is definitely a huge drop off for access to files after a certain age. I'd say after a month there is really very little need for me to access them directly. After that, it is sporadic for when I would want a specific file.
A benefit of Dropbox/Carousel (+ Lightroom locally), is I can fly through all 215GB via thumbnail representations without having to call the file explicitly. If there were some mechanism to offload storage to s3 or glacier, while retaining the nice UI afforded by the Dropbox/Lightroom clients, I would be all over that.
This is really disappointing. I have been a paying Loom member since shortly after the service was released, it's too bad it wasn't enough to keep it an independent company. After DivvyShot, Everpix, Snapjoy, and now Loom, I don't think I can trust another photo management startup again.
Really loving being on Picturelife. Last one (that I like) standing — at least for now.
Shutdown an entire service, and roll over to the guys that say you will work on a service that was your competitor till today. Seems like people don't care much about their sweat and tears these days.
When you realize that everything (and I mean everything...maybe not always directly, but in some way it is one of the prime motivators) in this world revolves around money, you stop being surprised at these things.
"This app is in development mode and cannot accept more users. Contact the app developer and ask them to use the Dropbox API App Console to apply for production status."
This is really disappointing. I have been a paying Loom member since shortly after the service was released, it's too bad it wasn't enough to keep it an independent company. After DivvyShot, Everpix, Snapjoy, and now Loom, I don't think I can trust another photo management startup again.
100%. Photos are here to stay while most startups are not. As much as I hate saying it,being a start-up founder myself, I'd go for Google, Yahoo, Amazon or a more backup-oriented startup.
In case you're playing the Acquisition Post Drinking Game: "It’s been a long road and we feel that we have come a long way in solving this problem. We are elated to announce the next step in this journey" "It’s been an immensely exciting journey and we are humbled by the support we received along the way." http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Honestly, what else are you going to write?
Right, this observation amounts to "people who are all in similar situations say similar things". Whoop-de-doo.
I think the photo management space is like blog platforms. They die so rapidly, I don't want to invest the considerable time to try out a new startup. Dropbox bought out Snapjoy and now Loom. Everpix is gone. I guess Picturelife is still around.
I'm sorry, but I think these startups just give other startups a bad name. I'm the CEO of Picturelife and I wouldn't dream of rolling over like this so easily. We have thousands of customers and just killing our service would be such an assault on their trust. All these services you mention are just taking the easy way out. There's a long road ahead for us and we'll going to keep making the product and experience bet…
Very very very happy Picturelife user here. Your S3 support is the icing on the cake — but please charge me a flat fee for using your software with my own storage. I want to pay for this great storage but your pricing model only prices on usage.
You're not selling me a utility — you're selling me your fantastic product. Let me pay for it!
Well, this is awfully disappointing. I'm in the process of migrating my stuff off of Dropbox due to the Dr. Rice issue (only problem is a lot of apps use it as their sole syncing service); I have no desire to move gigabytes of photos into Dropbox's control.