Do you guys know of companies launching a side project which ended being bigger than their main business?
Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users
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Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I have to agree on both points. I feel like I missed a memo about Flickr going down. AFAIK Flickr isn't even leaking, never-mind sinking... Am I wrong? Have I missed something? And API is one of the things that makes Flickr great, Snapjoy may have a sweet web interface but that's not enough. I'm guessing from the fact that they have a GitHub account that they'll release an API when the code has settled down a b…
Having been around conversations with some of the old Flickr people, I have to disagree. It's definitely sinking, and has been slowly gutted over the past few years. This is only the most recent piece of news: http://nolancaudill.com/2012/01/30/the-front-line/ All of the core Flickr people have left, and some (like Aaron Straup Cope) are starting to build their own: http://straup.github.com/parallel-flickr/ http://ww…
Okay so they have cut a few jobs and Yahoo! haven't done much to the site in 1-2 years. But why does that mean its sinking? The site still works great, still has loads of features, making it great to use. The pricing is brilliant for what you can get out of them (I only have around 3k on there). Plus their API is brilliant.
Until they start doing stuff that will effect how I use the service I wont be switching, I'd love to see some facts about users 'abandoning ship'.
Edit: Just tried signing up to SnapJoy and added my Flickr account, thats still pending and I cant seem to get any photos uploaded and showing on my homepage.
Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users
#23"5GB's" should be "5GBs".
Thanks for pointing that out! Fixed now.
Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users
#24Snapfish, DropBox, and several of the other large photo / filing sharing sites are essentially a UI for Amazon's S3 cloud. I pay for dropbox primarily to store family photos & videos. In fact the stuff I need to back-up that fits outside that category would fit in a free, or lower priced dropbox plan. I would switch based on price alone since photos are fairly static, non-changing, and the #1 concern is that they sur…
I'd very surprised if Amazon or anyone comes up with a better UX/UI than Dropbox. It has to be one of the best designed, engineered, and executed startups in a long time. Whenever I use it share between my iPhone, iPad, laptop and ubuntu server, I'm amazed on how well it just works. To say it's "just a UI for S3" is a little simplistic.
Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users
#25This is tacky on two levels:
1) it just attacks flickr without really giving any reason. Flickr is a sinking ship. Great. Why? Why do we have any reason to believe Snapjoy is going to outlast Flickr?
2) Using the image of a sinking cruise ship weeks after a cruise ship wreck killed at least 17 people. I'm not easily offended, and this didn't personally offend me, but it's pretty much the first thing I thought of when I saw a drawing of a sinking cruise ship. Why run the risk?
Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I have to agree on both points. I feel like I missed a memo about Flickr going down. AFAIK Flickr isn't even leaking, never-mind sinking... Am I wrong? Have I missed something? And API is one of the things that makes Flickr great, Snapjoy may have a sweet web interface but that's not enough. I'm guessing from the fact that they have a GitHub account that they'll release an API when the code has settled down a b…
Having been around conversations with some of the old Flickr people, I have to disagree. It's definitely sinking, and has been slowly gutted over the past few years. This is only the most recent piece of news: http://nolancaudill.com/2012/01/30/the-front-line/ All of the core Flickr people have left, and some (like Aaron Straup Cope) are starting to build their own: http://straup.github.com/parallel-flickr/ http://ww…
I've been worried about Flickr disappearing for a while, but I don't think it's anywhere close yet. Also I'm not really interested in yet another third-party service from someone even less trusted than Flickr.
I'm happy to see projects like parallel-flickr pop up. I even started my own version: https://github.com/aaronpk/Flickr-Archiver
There are few things I trust more than Flickr right now, but I want to be ready in case they sink in the near future.
Re: Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users
#27Snapfish, DropBox, and several of the other large photo / filing sharing sites are essentially a UI for Amazon's S3 cloud. I pay for dropbox primarily to store family photos & videos. In fact the stuff I need to back-up that fits outside that category would fit in a free, or lower priced dropbox plan. I would switch based on price alone since photos are fairly static, non-changing, and the #1 concern is that they sur…
More interested in something like open photo that is just forkable software and I pay for S3 http://theopenphotoproject.org/
Agreed! I really like the open photo project. I started making my own photo backup site as well: https://github.com/aaronpk/Flickr-Archiver I suspect we'll see many more attempts at building a solid photo archiving site before Flickr completely disappears.
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#28On the surface I love this idea. Flickr has been stagnant for years and starting to worry me. I don't mind paying for a photo sharing service but the market sure is saturated. I'll be looking for a little more than a pretty, overpriced UI over Amazon's S3. Wouldn't it be great if a company came around and offered front ends for S3. One for photo sharing, one for docs. You could switch them out like skins. Your data i…
openphoto.me is what you're describing
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#29I fail to see how Flickr is a 'sinking ship'. btw to all the photo app creators out there: no API - no go.
Would you say Yahoo is a sinking ship? Yahoo owns Flickr.
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#30With Flickr, I get unlimited storage for $24/year. I'm probably nearing 100GB of photos there, so in order to store those same photos with Snapjoy, it would cost me $120/year. What's the extra value that I get for an additional $100/year? And does Snapjoy integrate with iPhoto? I use Flickrfriend for iPhoto now to sync Flickr and iPhoto, but if I don't have a way to sync Snapjoy and iPhoto, it's a non-starter.
I don't think FlickrFriend is available or supported anymore:
http://unpaq.com/software/flickrfriend/