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i have drones. drones are hard to use. the killer feature of snapchat is that it’s easy to get content up. you have to keep posting new content cause it decays

i have drones. drones are hard to use. the killer feature of snapchat is that it’s easy to get content up. you have to keep posting new content cause it decays fast. phones are especially good at taking photos and videos and making them accessible. you may go somewhere or meet someone and within a few minutes have 5+ pictures you want to post. or a couple videos you think would do well. you may have them posted within 1 minute of taking them drones you have to set up. find a space for them. link them to your phone. tell people to get ready for the shot. make sure the location is good. probably do this 3-4 times cause it’s really hard to get a good camera angle the first time. or the timing right. all of this means even getting one “post worthy” image or video might take you 20 mins. or even an hour. or as i’ve done many times you spend an hour or more messing around with it and don’t like the footage and throw it all away

hernantz 4y ago
Similar exp with a gopro
- foolfoolz 4y ago
  gopro is this on steroids cause the image quality is so high and file sizes so big you can only really process them at home on a desktop. so do all this work and then take it home, upload to computer, and then maybe process it. i still have hundreds of gigs of footage i haven’t had the heart to throw away yet but also likely won’t review again proud owner of gopro karma and like 5 gopro cameras. the karma drone i have a fraction of the amount of content from compared to the cameras because it’s that much harder good example of this is skiing. i would bring my gopro with gimbal and get amazing quality stabilize footage or hold my phone in my hand and get good quality but not amazing. of the videos i watch or share, like 95%+ are from my phone. accessibility is huge
schimmy_changa 4y ago
I think the idea here is that snapchat is trying to solve that user issue drones have. If they can make using a drone as simple as TikTok made posting a short edited video, then they succeed here. There are lots of people who want to take drone images, but don't know how to start / what drone to buy / etc. This could (I give it a 30% chance) solve the problem. Another analogy could be the polaroid camera that 'democratized' casual pictures - this could be the equivalent 'democratization' for drone photography.
- foolfoolz 4y ago
  i don’t see any mass adoption of drones. the only time drone photos/videos will be common is when your phone can fly. bringing a drone around is a hassle. they are generally big (esp compared to a phone), extremely fragile, expensive, have short battery life. they are everything that made digital cameras hard and more. they would have to be so much better than what we have, but phone images and videos are already so good i don’t see it happening
jclardy 4y ago
This product is trying to be the antithesis of that. I have a few DJI drones and I share the same experience - you bring a drone to fly/shoot with a drone, it isn't something you do spontaneously. But this drone is not the same as a "traditional" drone, it appears you just set the mode, then let it fly out of your hand. No fumbling through an app for BT connection (Until you want to post the content, but Snap glasses make this super easy, the drone will be the same.) No looking for somewhere to launch because the props are guarded and the thing weighs less than a cell phone. No controls needed since it is all just gestures. If it runs out of battery I imagine it just lands wherever it is at. And it is the size of a sandwich, so it fits in a small bag - so you don't need a separate carrying case.

hernantz 4y ago

Similar exp with a gopro

foolfoolz 4y ago
gopro is this on steroids cause the image quality is so high and file sizes so big you can only really process them at home on a desktop. so do all this work and then take it home, upload to computer, and then maybe process it. i still have hundreds of gigs of footage i haven’t had the heart to throw away yet but also likely won’t review again proud owner of gopro karma and like 5 gopro cameras. the karma drone i have a fraction of the amount of content from compared to the cameras because it’s that much harder good example of this is skiing. i would bring my gopro with gimbal and get amazing quality stabilize footage or hold my phone in my hand and get good quality but not amazing. of the videos i watch or share, like 95%+ are from my phone. accessibility is huge

schimmy_changa 4y ago

I think the idea here is that snapchat is trying to solve that user issue drones have. If they can make using a drone as simple as TikTok made posting a short edited video, then they succeed here. There are lots of people who want to take drone images, but don't know how to start / what drone to buy / etc. This could (I give it a 30% chance) solve the problem. Another analogy could be the polaroid camera that 'democratized' casual pictures - this could be the equivalent 'democratization' for drone photography.

foolfoolz 4y ago
i don’t see any mass adoption of drones. the only time drone photos/videos will be common is when your phone can fly. bringing a drone around is a hassle. they are generally big (esp compared to a phone), extremely fragile, expensive, have short battery life. they are everything that made digital cameras hard and more. they would have to be so much better than what we have, but phone images and videos are already so good i don’t see it happening

jclardy 4y ago

This product is trying to be the antithesis of that. I have a few DJI drones and I share the same experience - you bring a drone to fly/shoot with a drone, it isn't something you do spontaneously. But this drone is not the same as a "traditional" drone, it appears you just set the mode, then let it fly out of your hand. No fumbling through an app for BT connection (Until you want to post the content, but Snap glasses make this super easy, the drone will be the same.) No looking for somewhere to launch because the props are guarded and the thing weighs less than a cell phone. No controls needed since it is all just gestures. If it runs out of battery I imagine it just lands wherever it is at. And it is the size of a sandwich, so it fits in a small bag - so you don't need a separate carrying case.