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I 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
by atgm 16y ago
I 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).