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Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

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Re: Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

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Post by mikejarema »

akumen wrote: post #28
cschmidt wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got a pretty big Aperture library, so it will take a long time to sync everything. Loom offered a Aperture import feature, so I was toying with trying them out. Now I don't know what to do.

I just save everything to Amazon Glacier that's not the current year. Current year + library files are dumped into S3 ... rinse and repeat. For photos, I am using Adobe Lightroom and organize files into folders by year/month/day/subject during import. Edited GoPro videos go to YouTube etc and originals/edits straight to Glacier. This takes a bit of effort to set up but works great great.

Would you be open to sharing numbers here? For example how much data you're storing on Glacier/S3, monthly data transfer and monthly costs to you?

Re: Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

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Post by innonate »

cschmidt wrote: post #14

I think the photo management space is like blog platforms. They die so rapidly, I don't want to invest the considerable time to try out a new startup. Dropbox bought out Snapjoy and now Loom. Everpix is gone. I guess Picturelife is still around.

I'm sorry, but I think these startups just give other startups a bad name.

I'm the CEO of Picturelife and I wouldn't dream of rolling over like this so easily. We have thousands of customers and just killing our service would be such an assault on their trust.

All these services you mention are just taking the easy way out. There's a long road ahead for us and we'll going to keep making the product and experience better for people, no matter what.

Re: Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

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Post by kingnight »

Roedou wrote: post #18
kingnight wrote: post #16

The other day when Carousel was announced, loom was mentioned in a hn thread as a competing service. It's offering was certainly compelling in many ways, and had me weighing switching. If I didn't have such a giant library, I probably would have on the spot. Now, in a way, I'm thankful I don't have to, and I hope they integrate the positives that loom had over Dropbox/Carousel. This is the first acquisition I've read…

Do you find Dropbox works for you with a giant library? I have ~1.5Tb of photos at this point, which seems too big for any of their accounts. How do you have it set up?

Ha, is "giant" relative or what... I am currently at ~98% of my 215GB Dropbox account and am stressing about what to do. The next tier doesn't seem cost effective for me and I don't have much room for clearing house.

One thought I have is converting a sizable portion of old Canon CR2 raw files to adobe DNG since I've noticed that reduces filesize by roughly 20% for the files that I have. This isn't really a long term solution though and I'm actually kind of unsure of what to do. I keep hoping that I can hold out long enough until Dropbox's gb/price get's halved again. Then I'd likely be set for some time.

I really can't think of a cloud service for ~1.5TB of photos. Have you found anything that would suit your purposes?

I also use crashplan for offsite archiving of my photo library, but I really, really, like having the entirety of my photo catalogue accessible everywhere. Excessive, sure, but definitely nice.

With loom, I am hoping they integrate the jpg rendering of raw files into their photos views on web/mobile.

Re: Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

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Post by antoni »

sunilkumarc wrote: post #3

So totally how much of space are we gonna get now ?

"If you switch to Carousel, you will have the exact same amount of free space you had in Loom. Any referral bonus you received on Loom will be preserved into your new Dropbox account as well." See: https://loom.com/migrate

Re: Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

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Post by subpixel »

Crap. I bought a year of Loom for precisely the reason that I do not want my photos taking up space on my drive. Now I have to explain to my extended family why all the confusion they put up with setting things up was for naught.

Re: Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

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Post by nayefc »

iCloud photos work much better than Loom. Loom is buggy. And it will suck more at Dropbox, just like what happened to Mailbox (seriously, what has Mailbox been doing for 6 months after iOS 7 has been released?!).

Re: Dropbox acquires Loom (YC W12)

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Post by tnorthcutt »

innonate wrote: post #33
cschmidt wrote: post #14

I think the photo management space is like blog platforms. They die so rapidly, I don't want to invest the considerable time to try out a new startup. Dropbox bought out Snapjoy and now Loom. Everpix is gone. I guess Picturelife is still around.

I'm sorry, but I think these startups just give other startups a bad name. I'm the CEO of Picturelife and I wouldn't dream of rolling over like this so easily. We have thousands of customers and just killing our service would be such an assault on their trust. All these services you mention are just taking the easy way out. There's a long road ahead for us and we'll going to keep making the product and experience bet…

I recently became aware of Picturelife, and the Everpix shutdown prompts me to ask: is Picturelife profitable?

Everpix looked really great, and I was very close to signing up, but then they shut down. I'm glad I didn't just to see them shut down.

I know you say you wouldn't roll over so easily (which is great!) but it ultimately comes down to whether you have a viable business, which Everpix clearly did not. If I sign up for Picturelife, will it survive without outside investment or some miracle? Is it on a stable trajectory?

Thanks for any insight you can provide. Your service looks great :)

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