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Show HN: A new image sharing service
- emily_b 11y agoA new image sharing service Itsosticky is a brand new image sharing service with some ambition, just launched after a year of development. More info is available here https://itsosticky.com/about https://itsosticky.com/about There are several things that make this different to other image sharing services. Itsosticky will quickly and automatically rescale images that are above a certain size threshold, with auto-orientation of JPEGs uploaded from phones. The layout is fully responsive, allowing for consistent URIs when shared across devices. It's light weight, with no advertising technologies. Many of the images currently displayed in the gallery are simply placeholders dropped onto the site by helpful beta users, and there are surely bugs to address here or there, but by and large, Itsosticky is ready for use. Thanks for taking a look. Feedback from mobile devices would be particularly valuable. Please upvote if you think this service is worthwhile and deserves to go somewhere.
- chinathrow 11y agoHow do you plan to monetize this?
- adambratt 11y agoA full year of development?
- Negative1 11y agoCommon engineering fallacy: "I could have done that in 2 months". Why not two weeks? Or "two days using frameworks x and y"? I don't know anything about the author but if he worked on this nights and weekends for a full year it seems about right to me (and great job)! Though, maybe I'm not 10x enough to know better. :-)
- benjaminjosephw 11y agoKeybindings would be great. Also, it'd be nice to see points on posts.
- danielvinson 11y agoHow do you plan on enforcing the no-NSFW policy? That seems close to impossible pre-monetization unless you spent most of that year training a neural network.
- knicholes 11y agoCould always use https://www.projectoxford.ai https://www.projectoxford.ai or something like it. I know Google just came out with an API for generating text descriptions of images. Perhaps if scanned images passed through this api were tagged with certain words, the images could be marked for moderation and not shown until approved.
- bluedino 11y agoIt's cool. How do you plan on getting people to use it? The reddit userbase basically propelled Imgur into an overnight success.
- angryasian 11y agoits ok. I still think imgur is slightly better to use. Just my common example : I will find images and using their url upload, upload the image so that I have an easily shareable link. On your page its a two step process. I had to first enter the url, press the www button (which wasn't immediately apparent ) and then pressed the upload button. On imgur its only enter link and upload.
- emily_b 11y agoYou can drag and drop from other web pages or copy and paste via Ctrl-v. Might be a useful one-step alternative.
- ecdavis 11y agoInfinite scrolling is broken. https://itsosticky.com/1srfcne https://itsosticky.com/1srfcne Scroll down, scroll back up, scroll down again.
- Sir_Cmpwn 11y agoYou should read this: https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-online-services.html https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli... Disclaimer: I wrote it
- billmalarky 11y agoMind if I ask the name of your image hosting service?
- Nadya 11y agoFor consumers this isn't too big of a deal. There are plenty of good-hearted people out there and "host my images" isn't something that requires a lot of personal trust (at least, for the kind of images I host). Some hosts don't scale much and can survive off donations. Others become too large and fall under their own weight. When one service becomes poisoned (as you described it) - I move to another service. Once upon a time that was Imgur, followed by puush, followed by minus, followed by pomfse, and now I use vgy.me and mixtape.moe (when vgy.me's servers go down, which is rare but happens). There are no shortage of image hosts around to choose from. Your writeup is right on the money. It isn't a service that scales well and any monetization tends to lead to users dipping to greener pastures. Imgur being a strange exception.
- Sir_Cmpwn 11y agoThe internet doesn't need another ten thousand broken links when this one goes under, too.
- pwython 11y agoLooks extremely similar to Imgur, including the colors and modals. What would you say separates it from Imgur? Why did it takes a year to develop?
- jdc0589 11y ago> What would you say separates it from Imgur? It's not blocked by my company firewall yet, so that's nice.
- brixon 11y agoMine is blocked already...
- bosdev 11y ago> Why did it [take] a year to develop? I believe this is your answer (from the About page): > Almost every piece of code is ad hoc, built from the ground up to be as lightweight and efficient as possible. My opinion is they most likely built many things which were already available in the open-source world.
- CaptSpify 11y ago> ...built from the ground up to be as lightweight and efficient as possible. This is my favorite part. So many sites start out this way, then become slow, unresponsive and bulky. Here's to hoping it stays slim and quick.
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- emily_b 11y agoFinding a way to provide viable (fast and high quality) image resizing on phones was one of the biggest challenges.
- floor__ 11y agoWow that looks nothing like imgur :/