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Short: I would pay. Long: I would love to see some features that other sites haven't put in yet. 1. The ability to upload from a computer or via e-mail (from
by atgm 16y ago
Short: I would pay.
Long: I would love to see some features that other sites haven't put in yet.
1. The ability to upload from a computer or via e-mail (from a cell phone, for example).
2. The ability to automatically repost pictures to specified Facebook galleries and Twitter.
3. Robust tagging/sorting/searching systems.
?. An offline system with a searchable database that you could synch with the cloud system would be amazing, so you could organize photos on your computer in the same way and keep everything synched up.
Edited for clarity.
Another thing that would bring over a lot of people I know is the ability to automatically import flickr/picasa photos and tags. Most people won't move from established galleries because it's such a pain to relocate all of that history -- they're locked in.
- jmathai 16y agoThanks for the feedback. All of those are great features. #3 is my favorite though :). Ideally it would be open enough that adding "modules" would be easy. Not exactly sure what that means, perhaps an API with OAuth so others can build apps. Really interesting...but definitely phase II.
- atgm 16y agoI feel bad saying this, but I'd also want some kind of guarantee or something that the service wouldn't shut down in a few years, since you mention that you did this before and shut it down.
- jmathai 16y agoWell, that's part of the beauty of this. I can't guarantee the service wouldn't be shut down but you're in the same boat with any other provider you go with. The essence of this service is that even if I went AWOL you'd still have your photos and meta data in an easily accessible form (your S3 account and a SQL dump of the meta data). I'd love to open source the "front end" code so you could port it simply by running it on your own server. The actual photos would never have to be migrated since....tada - you own it and it's not bound to the service I'm offering to provide.
- atgm 16y agoIt sounds like you're trying to sell both the service AND the software. Why not just offer to sell the software to anyone who wants it for X dollars, and for the people who don't want to host it themselves, run it for them for Y/mo?
- jmathai 16y agoI hadn't really given it too much thought. The intention wasn't to make money off of it. Some money to cover expenses but I'd love to not be the one managing it, having nodes of these sites all around the web. But that's lofty - so a hosted solution is a bit easier to swallow - and I'd be happy doing that as well and breaking even (time/energy/stress, etc).