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Submitted my Show HN 1075 days ago (https://photoeditor.polarr.co/ https://photoeditor.polarr.co/), for a WebGL photo editing tool, now has turned into a startu

Submitted my Show HN 1075 days ago (https://photoeditor.polarr.co/ https://photoeditor.polarr.co/), for a WebGL photo editing tool, now has turned into a startup with more than 10M users.

michaelthiessen 9y ago
I'm so glad I saw this. I got a camera recently and have been debating whether or not to get Adobe's photographer package. Currently I just use Lightroom mobile. Now I'm thinking I'll probably go with this. It looks really good!
jerrre 9y ago
Just wanted to let you know that your website is shown to me in very badly translated Dutch, personally I'd rather have correct English than bad Dutch, but I don't see a way to change it.
- Insanity 9y ago
  For me it was not translated. Though it should have been to Dutch as well. Perhaps because I used it on my mobile phone.
- degorov 9y ago
  Same for me with Russian.
- wazoox 9y ago
  Same thing in French. inexplicably, "key" (I suppose) is translated not as "touche" (or wrongly but understandably as "clef") but as "robinet" ("sink tap"). Oh I just got it. The original in some other language probably is equivalent to the verb "press", translated to "tap", then to "robinet" which is comically absurd.
bacontacos 9y ago
Holy smokes this is awesome!
austenallred 9y ago
Your product is fantastic.
londons_explore 9y ago
How does your "clarity" filter work?
etmargallo 9y ago
awesome work!
smaili 9y ago
Awesome walkthrough!
amelius 9y ago
Nice UI, except it seems a bit unresponsive.
_tulpa 9y ago
Last time I used this it claimed to process raw files, and then just ripped the embedded JPEG and used that. Is this still the case?
sixQuarks 9y ago
And the Show HN didn't even do well. What's surprising is that you got positive feedback from the few comments, a rarity among Show HN :)
andrewstuart 9y ago
What exactly does 10M users mean?
- veidr 9y ago
  Well, I'm guessing probably doesn't mean "ten million" in this particular case. "M" is one of those fundamentally ambiguous type of abbreviations that really shouldn't ever be used. (Kind of like nn/nn/nn date formats.) It is commonly used to mean both "thousand" (M was the Roman numeral for 1000) and "million" (10K, 10M, 10B).
  - andrewstuart 9y ago
    >> Well, I'm guessing probably doesn't mean "ten million" in this particular case. Why not? 10M seems the obvious.
  - kornish 9y ago
    10 million seems like the clear interpretation here. What's more, 10,000 is X in Roman numerals. I think andrewstuart was asking what qualified as a "user": how many were active, how much they engaged, etc.
    - veidr 9y ago
      Yeah, I didn't think they were literally using Roman numerals to describe their user base; I thought they were using the "10M == 10,000, 10MM == 10,000,000" notation that is (for some reason) popular with financial-type people[1]. But anyway, I was wrong; I poked around on the site and they indicate they really do have millions of users. So: wow, nice work! [1]: https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand-for https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stan...

Submitted my Show HN 1075 days ago (https://photoeditor.polarr.co/ https://photoeditor.polarr.co/), for a WebGL photo editing tool, now has turned into a startup with more than 10M users.

michaelthiessen 9y ago

I'm so glad I saw this. I got a camera recently and have been debating whether or not to get Adobe's photographer package. Currently I just use Lightroom mobile. Now I'm thinking I'll probably go with this. It looks really good!

jerrre 9y ago

Just wanted to let you know that your website is shown to me in very badly translated Dutch, personally I'd rather have correct English than bad Dutch, but I don't see a way to change it.

Insanity 9y ago
For me it was not translated. Though it should have been to Dutch as well. Perhaps because I used it on my mobile phone.
degorov 9y ago
Same for me with Russian.
wazoox 9y ago
Same thing in French. inexplicably, "key" (I suppose) is translated not as "touche" (or wrongly but understandably as "clef") but as "robinet" ("sink tap"). Oh I just got it. The original in some other language probably is equivalent to the verb "press", translated to "tap", then to "robinet" which is comically absurd.

bacontacos 9y ago

Holy smokes this is awesome!

austenallred 9y ago

Your product is fantastic.

londons_explore 9y ago

How does your "clarity" filter work?

etmargallo 9y ago

awesome work!

smaili 9y ago

Awesome walkthrough!

amelius 9y ago

Nice UI, except it seems a bit unresponsive.

_tulpa 9y ago

Last time I used this it claimed to process raw files, and then just ripped the embedded JPEG and used that. Is this still the case?

sixQuarks 9y ago

And the Show HN didn't even do well. What's surprising is that you got positive feedback from the few comments, a rarity among Show HN :)

andrewstuart 9y ago

What exactly does 10M users mean?

veidr 9y ago
Well, I'm guessing probably doesn't mean "ten million" in this particular case. "M" is one of those fundamentally ambiguous type of abbreviations that really shouldn't ever be used. (Kind of like nn/nn/nn date formats.) It is commonly used to mean both "thousand" (M was the Roman numeral for 1000) and "million" (10K, 10M, 10B).
- andrewstuart 9y ago
  >> Well, I'm guessing probably doesn't mean "ten million" in this particular case. Why not? 10M seems the obvious.
- kornish 9y ago
  10 million seems like the clear interpretation here. What's more, 10,000 is X in Roman numerals. I think andrewstuart was asking what qualified as a "user": how many were active, how much they engaged, etc.
  - veidr 9y ago
    Yeah, I didn't think they were literally using Roman numerals to describe their user base; I thought they were using the "10M == 10,000, 10MM == 10,000,000" notation that is (for some reason) popular with financial-type people[1]. But anyway, I was wrong; I poked around on the site and they indicate they really do have millions of users. So: wow, nice work! [1]: https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand-for https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stan...