Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus
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Re: Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus
#2I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud.
I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. As someone who was hoping for a long term improving product, that's a little depressing.
I guess the lesson is that even startups that you pay for aren't immune to being sold. What services are safe to invest time and money in using?
Re: Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus
#3I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…
"What services are safe to invest time and money in using?"
Great question. I think in this situation, a company like Dropbox is probably safer, as they're a lot bigger in certain measurements (amount of funding, amount of revenue, etc).
I think the companies that have the most to lose are the safest to invest time and money in using. A small startup that just started 3 weeks ago is more likely to be sold than a company like Dropbox, in my opinion.
Re: Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus
#4I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…
Even big "safe" companies like Microsoft and Google discontinue services. It's probably better to accept the fact that services come and go as the price of progress and figure out how to live in such a world.
This is actually one of the ironic casualties of the cloud. In the old days you bought your packaged software and it was pretty much guaranteed to work as long as you didn't change your setup (OS, hardware, etc). With cloud services the change is out of your control, so there's nothing you can do to freeze your setup.
This is probably a reason why there may be a growing market for personal clouds.
Re: Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus
#5I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…
"What services are safe to invest time and money in using?" Great question. I think in this situation, a company like Dropbox is probably safer, as they're a lot bigger in certain measurements (amount of funding, amount of revenue, etc). I think the companies that have the most to lose are the safest to invest time and money in using. A small startup that just started 3 weeks ago is more likely to be sold than a comp…
> "A small startup that just started 3 weeks ago is more likely to be sold than a company like Dropbox, in my opinion"
I agree with the rest of your post but what you said above doesn't make sense to me. A 3 week startup is probably more likely to die than be bought whereas Dropbox would likely be a fantastic purchase (for anyone who could afford them). The aim of such Startups (at least if they have VC investors) is to sell the company at some point, whether that be to the public (IPO) or another company (acquisition).
Re: Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus
#6I've been looking for a service like Snapjoy. Kind of sad that I found it in a post that the service is suspended. Hopefully the team will keep working on a Snapjoy like service within Dropbox.
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#7I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…
"What services are safe to invest time and money in using?" Great question. I think in this situation, a company like Dropbox is probably safer, as they're a lot bigger in certain measurements (amount of funding, amount of revenue, etc). I think the companies that have the most to lose are the safest to invest time and money in using. A small startup that just started 3 weeks ago is more likely to be sold than a comp…
The problem though is that if everyone waits around for services to become established, then no service will be able to grow to the necessary size to become established.
Re: Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus
#8I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…
Draft a user contract that companies can sign if they will. A Grover pledge for letting users get their money's worth, if you will.
[Sparrow](http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/) is a great example. They were acquired soon after the release of their iPhone app. That kinda soured me and many others.
EDIT: The same could be done for other cases, obviously. Take usage rights on social photo services as a completely hypothetical example. :)
EDIT2: In fact, it could be something YC requires their funded companies to do. That must be pretty popular considering all the Instagram/Flickr debacle.
When was it that Y Combinator decided to ban companies supporting SOPA/PIPA or something to that effect?
Re: Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus
#9While we're talking about photos:
How long is it going to be before iOS or Android (points to the winner!) partners with CVS or Walgreens to offer printing services for photos as an integrated part of the OS?
Having cameras in everybody's pocket all the time (decent ones, too!) is a revolution. The next step is making it easy to put those photos on the fridge.
I really love the reality of physical places having APIs. Think of Walgreens like a peripheral and use it.
I would spend huge amounts of money of photos if this was a simple thing. (And part of the OS. I don't want to open walgreens' undoubtedly god awful app to do this.)
Re: Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
"What services are safe to invest time and money in using?" Great question. I think in this situation, a company like Dropbox is probably safer, as they're a lot bigger in certain measurements (amount of funding, amount of revenue, etc). I think the companies that have the most to lose are the safest to invest time and money in using. A small startup that just started 3 weeks ago is more likely to be sold than a comp…
> "A small startup that just started 3 weeks ago is more likely to be sold than a company like Dropbox, in my opinion" I agree with the rest of your post but what you said above doesn't make sense to me. A 3 week startup is probably more likely to die than be bought whereas Dropbox would likely be a fantastic purchase (for anyone who could afford them). The aim of such Startups (at least if they have VC investors) is…
"A 3 week startup is probably more likely to die than be bought.."
Exactly. My point is that a 3 week old startup is more likely to disappear quickly (fail, get bought, etc.) than a company like Dropbox. Dropbox is a good acquisition target, but I think a company like that would take longer to do so.
As you said, a company like Dropbox could also go for an IPO, in which case, theoretically, they still provide the product that you're paying them for.