Thanks for the olark.com link. That is an impressive service.
Thoughts on Picplum Automatic Photo Prints
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Exactly. Your parents. Not you. (That said, there’s plenty of time for this startup to thrive. I wouldn’t worry about it.)
Well we're obviously just talking about anecdotal evidence here, but I'm a young-ish hacker-news-reading programmer, and I am really excited about this service because I love having prints. I also want to sign my brother up for this so I can get pics of my nephew but only 15 per month, not the usual 150-per-facebook album.
I think you are on to something there with the 15 prints a month limit...
Figure out some way to create a scarcity of images, so only the worthwhile pictures are used/shown, not the 150-per-facebook album, as you mentioned.
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#23There are tons of competitors with much lower prices. They will need a lot of luck.
There are tons of competitors in every market. We are not competing on price. We are a premium product and we offer a much better experience and a higher quality product than most of our competitors.
I doubt your "higher quality" product claim. Most photo printers today use pretty much the same machines, give you many paper options.
"Much better experience" is just a speculation.
You are a premium product indeed, price-wise.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are tons of competitors in every market. We are not competing on price. We are a premium product and we offer a much better experience and a higher quality product than most of our competitors.
I doubt your "higher quality" product claim. Most photo printers today use pretty much the same machines, give you many paper options. "Much better experience" is just a speculation. You are a premium product indeed, price-wise.
Well why don't you try us and our competitors and let us know what you think.
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#25Picplum reminded me of picwing which I believe is another YC company. I had a chuckle when I noticed that they both have the exact same testimonial from Jessica Livingston, modulo the company name. I'm not quite sure how both can be true: "Picwing is the easiest way for me to get digital photos printed. I just email pictures to my account and never have to think about it again. With Picwing, I can be sure that my fam…
Picplum bought Picwing and is essentially a rebranding of the same service, along with improvements. The testimonial holds because it's the same thing, just with an updated name.
Well that would explain it wouldn't it.
Branding is already better.
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#26I think this is a killer idea. I have a 6-month old and the only picture we have of him on the fridge is an ultrasound picture.
I would recommend making this as easy to gift as possible. A subscription like this might be more popular as a shower gift than something new parents purchase themselves. (Citrus Lane does an excellent job at this.)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt your "higher quality" product claim. Most photo printers today use pretty much the same machines, give you many paper options. "Much better experience" is just a speculation. You are a premium product indeed, price-wise.
Well why don't you try us and our competitors and let us know what you think.
Hmm... I'd like to try you, and don't have time to try a bunch of other people as well. Would you mind explaining in your own words what is better about the quality of your prints (or service in general) than the others?
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#28I think this is a killer idea. I have a 6-month old and the only picture we have of him on the fridge is an ultrasound picture. I would recommend making this as easy to gift as possible. A subscription like this might be more popular as a shower gift than something new parents purchase themselves. (Citrus Lane does an excellent job at this.)
"I would recommend making this as easy to gift as possible"
That has been the most requested thing in the past week. I think we'll have to make a splash with some kind of gift card come Holiday 2011!
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt your "higher quality" product claim. Most photo printers today use pretty much the same machines, give you many paper options. "Much better experience" is just a speculation. You are a premium product indeed, price-wise.
Well why don't you try us and our competitors and let us know what you think.
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Well why don't you try us and our competitors and let us know what you think.
Hmm... I'd like to try you, and don't have time to try a bunch of other people as well. Would you mind explaining in your own words what is better about the quality of your prints (or service in general) than the others?
@jordanlev So we have tried ordering prints from a few other big digital photo printing sites. First thing that you will notice is that everyone uses much thinner quality paper then we use. We use heavy Luster Fujifilm photo paper, much thicker than many others. Our photo process is lightjet chemical process, most other companies use either a digital or inject process which is not as good as chemical photographic process.
We are also putting in a lot of effort in package design and are going to be experimenting with designs over the coming few months.