Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups • Hacker News Board

Re: Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

#31

Post by jonnytran » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 4:07 AM UTC

You are displaying people's email addresses? And you say you don't like spam?! Shame on you. I'm already weary giving divvyshot my email address, and now divvyshot is passing it on to every other registered user. And of course I couldn't tell that it was going to do that ahead of time b/c I had to log in to see that feature.

(Looks like you can prevent the display of your email address by entering a display name in your profile, but that is not obvious at all.)

Re: Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

#32

Post by thepanister » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 4:13 AM UTC

Sam_Odio wrote: post #10

Hey guys, it's Sam (divvyshot's creator). The site's a piece of crap right now, but hopefully things will be better over the coming weeks. Release early and frequently, right? If you find any huge bugs email me: so / at / divvyshot / dot / com Features we've built and haven't yet launched include: - A Desktop client (PC & Mac) - Twitter, Flickr, & Facebook synchronization - Facebook application - An iPhone app (you c…

I can't sign up! Please increase the email address' field to 50 charachters, so I would be able to sign up!

Thanks!

Re: Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

#33

Post by smanek » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 4:14 AM UTC

You may want to turn off directory browsing ... Playing around for a few seconds didn't reveal anything particularly bad (although, this was very interesting: http://divvyshot.com/static/bandwidth_costs.xls).

The Java applet also seems to hang firefox for me (Ubuntu 8.10 x64). I don't have another 64bit linux machine handy, so I can't tell if it's something particular to my setup though.

Re: Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

#34

Post by helveticaman » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 4:22 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #9

Here's my 10 second review: I have no clue why I should want to use this instead of flickr. I'm sure there's some reason -- but whatever it is, you might want to point it out more clearly on the front page, because otherwise those 10 seconds are probably all you're going to get from most people.

Looking on the bright side, at least it isn't clearly worse than flickr. It can improve.

Re: Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

#35

Post by avner » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 4:26 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #9

Here's my 10 second review: I have no clue why I should want to use this instead of flickr. I'm sure there's some reason -- but whatever it is, you might want to point it out more clearly on the front page, because otherwise those 10 seconds are probably all you're going to get from most people.

Here's my 10 second review: Firefox crashed trying to load the JVM for this. I'm not sure if I want to re-visit the site.

Re: Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

#36

Post by d0mine » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 4:26 AM UTC

Sam_Odio wrote: post #30

jklubnik wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Allow email addresses to contain a plus. It's something a lot of gmail users like to do.

Fixed, thanks for the heads up.

`+` doesn't work in emails.

TOS is scary.

Re: Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

#37

Post by zhyder » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 4:40 AM UTC

You call it an alpha... did you want TechCrunch to cover it so soon: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/y-combinators-divvyshot...

Re: Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

#38

Post by thepanister » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 5:05 AM UTC

smanek wrote: post #33

You may want to turn off directory browsing ... Playing around for a few seconds didn't reveal anything particularly bad (although, this was very interesting: http://divvyshot.com/static/bandwidth_costs.xls ). The Java applet also seems to hang firefox for me (Ubuntu 8.10 x64). I don't have another 64bit linux machine handy, so I can't tell if it's something particular to my setup though.

According to what I read at the xsl file above, it looks likt it's the costs/user...

Don't tell me that this website is for scalable photo sharing!

You scale up and down your photos storage, and you pay as you go!

Re: Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

#39

Post by pg » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 5:24 AM UTC

arnorhs wrote: post #12

About the frontpage question: "You and your friends went to a party. where do you put the photos? Right here!" --- ehh wrong, personally I'd put my photos on facebook. I have an account there, my friends do as well, so I don't get it... sorry :S

If a group of you wants to put all the photos you took at some event in one place, where do you put them?

Re: Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

#40

Post by RK » Thu, Mar 05, 2009, 5:43 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #39

arnorhs wrote: post #12

About the frontpage question: "You and your friends went to a party. where do you put the photos? Right here!" --- ehh wrong, personally I'd put my photos on facebook. I have an account there, my friends do as well, so I don't get it... sorry :S

If a group of you wants to put all the photos you took at some event in one place, where do you put them?

Dropbox?