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Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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I am not sure about the backup your photo pitch. I think the way they are showing pictures in a horizontal + vertical timeline is very very nice. If I were a photo person, I would like to have this app talk to Instagram, Picplz, FB, etc... grab all my pics and show them in such timeline.

We agree ;)

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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This looks amazing! Does it let me use one account across several computers so that all photos end up in the same cloud account?

Absolutely. We're going to be pulling your photos from web services and other devices soon :)

wow. I think you've just solved my "photo problem".

What about if I have more photos than hard drive space?

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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And by "organize" they mean "sort by date". What's the real breakthrough here?

There's a lot more than that meets the eye happening beneath the surface. When you have a thousand photos up there, you'll get a better feel of our algorithmic clustering.

Well, can you just tell us what the features are?

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. We're going to be pulling your photos from web services and other devices soon :)

wow. I think you've just solved my "photo problem". What about if I have more photos than hard drive space?

That's cool. We can provide you virtually unlimited storage for your authoritative photo collection on our servers.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

#18
My feature requests (as they have been for every service I've tried from Flickr, to 500px, to Smugmug):

1) Let me upload my RAWs. Better if you can display them as is, but at least do what Adobe does and show the embedded JPEG if not.

2) Allow me to edit online with HTML5 compatible tools (Adobe's online service will let you edit, but uses Flash for some odd reason). With that I can edit from the road using my iPad.

3) If you want to make money, help me make money too... i.e. better to take a share of sales (win-win) then charge me and I have to hope I make enough to justify paying you. Even better if you can help me market.

4) Killer option even if you fail on the previous three - identify the things I can't. Wildflowers are number one on this list, but animals can be an issue sometimes as well. It wouldn't hurt if you can take my location from the photo, figure out which way I'm facing (time of day and angle of sun), and identify that peak in the distance as well (though supposedly the military is working on that one).

5) One I am surprised I don't see more of on the photo sites - run some juried contests. Great way to spark interest in your site, as well as let folks know they can find the up and coming photographers with some help (sort of like 500px's "editor's choice", but with benefits.

6) One more "killer" feature - tell me what I did wrong. If I ask you to look (programmatically) at my photo, take a look at the curves and the EXIF data, and tell me what I should have done to get a better picture.

7) Final request - give me a way to take what you have organized, and pull it back as those same albums onto my PC. That reduces guess work of what I have or haven't backed up, and lets me not worry as much about whether you will still be around in two years.

Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You

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Glad that the TC article touches on it, but with the track record of YC company acquisitions and killing products (yes yes, I realize dropbox is an exception), it really feels like a leap of faith to trust a YC associated backup service.

I can deal with having to export my files in case of acquisition, but it will keep me from suggesting this service (which sounds awesome, by the way) to non-technical friends and family.

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