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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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Post by salvadors »

EwanG wrote: post #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.…

#6 sounds like a really great idea. Does a version it exist anywhere in any form? Plugins for Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture/whatever? Standalone desktop software? Anything?

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

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Post by mechanical_fish »

mahyarm wrote: post #22

Both Kicksend and Snapjoy insist on Real Names, very irritating. (Is it a YC trend?) Will you purge accounts that don't use them G+ style? Will I upload a bunch of files, have them no where else (your average person) and then find out they've disappeared one day because of an inane real name policy with no recourse? How about if I don't have a last name, and have to make one up to fill out your form? You'll get real…

True Names, broken though the model is, are the fad of the hour because Google is hell-bent on them. And since it is the fondest wish of many funded startups to be bought by Google, nobody is going to get fired for doing exactly what Google is doing at any given moment.

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

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Post by brlewis »

rorrr wrote: post #7

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

Sorting by date is a breakthrough for normal people. I've been developing and advocating it for years. The big photo sharing sites make you sort manually into albums because that's what professionals and photography enthusiasts want. Photo sharing for the rest of us is just getting started.

I'm eager to see more about the algorithmic clustering, but the site's overloaded now.

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

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Post by benatkin »

salvadors wrote: post #31
EwanG wrote: post #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.…

#6 sounds like a really great idea. Does a version it exist anywhere in any form? Plugins for Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture/whatever? Standalone desktop software? Anything?

For professionals there's http://www.imatest.com/home

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

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Post by salvadors »

benatkin wrote: post #36
salvadors wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

#6 sounds like a really great idea. Does a version it exist anywhere in any form? Plugins for Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture/whatever? Standalone desktop software? Anything?

For professionals there's http://www.imatest.com/home

Thanks. It definitely seems like where a super-super-simplistic version for amateurs would be of great value, especially if it can work across multiple images, spotting mistakes you tend to make regularly.

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

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Post by jpren »

gootik wrote: post #37

I uploaded couple of pictures and it said that they are being processed. When I clicked on the "Dashboard" button to see the progress, it took me to the welcome page again.

Thanks for pointing that out. We probably haven't fully processed a single image from your queue yet, so sorry about the confusing circle it's throwing you in during that case... will fix on our end

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

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Post by alanning »

I've been looking for something like this but as a desktop photo backup app with cloud option. With two young kids I have tons of pictures and videos to wade through and its just not cost effective to store it all on the cloud when 2TB drives cost $100. But it is _such_ a pain for my wife and I when we consolidate pics from our various devices and then do a backup to multiple USB drives. And its just going to get worse over time.

What I would love is an app that would analyze my library, eliminate exact dups, and backup automatically to each drive when I plug them in. Kind of like iPhone sync but from devices->comp->external storage. Super Bonus Points if it can auto-level pics.

But the biggest time sink is winnowing down the raw photos to a best-of list suitable to upload to an online photo sharing site. Usually we take 4 or 5 pics that are all about the same and then have to go through each 'group' and pick the best. Having so many usually means we just skip it and store them all for later. But that's really just delaying the pain, someday when we want to show them off its really gonna hurt. Its generally more important to me to get an OK pic that conveys the idea of the 'memory' rather than spending the extra time to pick the absolutely best shot.

Fancy algo's to the rescue?

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