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I can't comment on the $25k price tag, or if SmugMug is as open as you describe it to be, but I DO want a service where I can share photos online without losing
by jrgnsd 15y ago
I can't comment on the $25k price tag, or if SmugMug is as open as you describe it to be, but I DO want a service where I can share photos online without losing my sense of control over them.
I have a DropBox, and if there's a service that automatically picks up photos I place in a specified folder and make those taggable and publicly available, I'll use it.
I don't like facebook or the effort it takes to upload photos to whatever service. This sounds easy and convenient to me.
It is of course possible that there's other, easier and/or cheaper ways than the proposed solution.
- jmathai 15y agoSmugMug (while a great service) isn't any more open than other photo sites with an API. I have thought a bit about sync services. Not planned atm but I have the same sentiments. Unsure if you're an iOS/OSX user but iCloud's syncing is an interesting feature I want to look into - unsure what their photostream API allows though. As far as cost - I didn't break it down to the hour. But I know that there's a lot more than $25k of work to build a really great photo service.
- jrgnsd 15y agoI'm on Ubuntu and Android, and it would be a definite plus if I can drop my photos into a folder from where ever, and they're shared on the net.
- jmathai 15y agoYea, I agree. I hope to build a mobile app for the service which should make it easy to get photos from Android to the service. My friend was interested in command line tools that would do differential syncing to your local machine. It's definitely possible and I hope someone takes that on!
- brlewis 15y agoAre you running Dropbox? Make a new folder and share it with box@ourdoings.com