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I am going to be frank: Don't think "YC Reject" is going to save you. I would reject you too. Your site still sucks. "MAKE SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT" I don't want

by dawie 19y ago

I am going to be frank: Don't think "YC Reject" is going to save you. I would reject you too. Your site still sucks. "MAKE SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT" I don't want a shitty photo sharing site. Have you used smugmug, flickr and even picasa web albums (my current favorite). These sites are close to perfect and you will NEVER catch up with them. They are easy to use and I don't think it can egt any easier. Change you business plan/application to do something else. Do social networking -- (jokes) PS: Keep your invites

brlewis 19y ago
If those photo sharing sites are close to perfection for you, that's fine. They aren't at all what I want. I want to mix text and photos to tell a story chronologically: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-demo-stock/ http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-demo-stock/ It's a mistake to look at photo sharing as a single finish line that these various sites are racing to. Different people will have different purposes for sharing photos, and these will lead to different sites. For example, Smugmug didn't have an email updates feature with embedded photos for more than two years after ourdoings.com had it. This is not because Don is a slow racer; it's just that that feature has less appeal for his user base than it does for mine. He's not trying to catch up with me; I'm not trying to catch up with him. There are millions of people out there whose photos sit on their hard drive never to be seen. I think a lot of those people would be best served by doing what I've been doing for years on ourdoings.com with my own photos; I just want to make it accessible to them.
- dawie 19y ago
  "I want to mix text and photos to tell a story chronologically" - Is that not the same as comments or a photo blog. I am sorry for being so negative, but I just can't see this going anywhere. Also it doesn't seem like you take people's advice. Your site still have loads of text painfully explaining stuff. In the past nearly everyone said the same things they said here. Do a better design. Drop the text. Make it intuitive/easy to use.

by dawie 19y ago

brlewis 19y ago

If those photo sharing sites are close to perfection for you, that's fine. They aren't at all what I want. I want to mix text and photos to tell a story chronologically: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-demo-stock/ http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-demo-stock/ It's a mistake to look at photo sharing as a single finish line that these various sites are racing to. Different people will have different purposes for sharing photos, and these will lead to different sites. For example, Smugmug didn't have an email updates feature with embedded photos for more than two years after ourdoings.com had it. This is not because Don is a slow racer; it's just that that feature has less appeal for his user base than it does for mine. He's not trying to catch up with me; I'm not trying to catch up with him. There are millions of people out there whose photos sit on their hard drive never to be seen. I think a lot of those people would be best served by doing what I've been doing for years on ourdoings.com with my own photos; I just want to make it accessible to them.

dawie 19y ago
"I want to mix text and photos to tell a story chronologically" - Is that not the same as comments or a photo blog. I am sorry for being so negative, but I just can't see this going anywhere. Also it doesn't seem like you take people's advice. Your site still have loads of text painfully explaining stuff. In the past nearly everyone said the same things they said here. Do a better design. Drop the text. Make it intuitive/easy to use.