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Some feedback: I think you should make your landing page clearer. Having looked at it, I don't really know what OpenPhoto is. It's not clear where to click to

by Maro 15y ago

Some feedback: I think you should make your landing page clearer. Having looked at it, I don't really know what OpenPhoto is. It's not clear where to click to get a simple explanation. Maybe you should put up a short 1-minute video. I think the liberation angle is not a good pitch. I'm a paying Flickr user, but the primary storage for my photos is iPhoto / my hard drive. I just use Flickr for sharing, so I'm not worried. I don't think you should compete on price. As you know, Flickr costs $25/year, which is already low enough to just not matter. Some issues: 1. My 'Pictures' folder is currently 76GB. On S3, that would cost $127.68/year to store. There's no way I'd pay that much. 2. Once it's on S3, browsing and photo editing would be dog-slow. 3. Would your Web UI be as nice as Flickr's?

jmathai 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. 1) You might be able to just set up OpenPhoto pointing to your hard drive and make your photos web accessible and easily searchable. You could also push to your drive from your mobile device. There's lots of room for unique use cases :). 2) You think? You could always throw CloudFront in front of S3 if you wanted. It won't be as fast as your local disk but it should be pretty fast. 3) That's the goal. Better actually. The UI is completely themeable so I see a lot of potential to have themes specific to different types of users.
- Maro 15y ago
  Let me say again that I think OpenPhoto is a good/interesting idea. My responses: 1) It's a laptop that's constantly moving / offline, so no. I think you should take this issue seriously, because users like myself perceive hard drive space to be "free" or at least we already paid for it, but paying $10/mo just for photo storage seems kind of steep compares to the harddrive+Flickr $2/mo option. 2) Come on now... I think you should think of some nifty sync feature so people can edit locally and upload async. 3) Great! If you have a nice UI, you should put a nice big picture on the landing page right in my face!

by Maro 15y ago

jmathai 15y ago

Thanks for the feedback. 1) You might be able to just set up OpenPhoto pointing to your hard drive and make your photos web accessible and easily searchable. You could also push to your drive from your mobile device. There's lots of room for unique use cases :). 2) You think? You could always throw CloudFront in front of S3 if you wanted. It won't be as fast as your local disk but it should be pretty fast. 3) That's the goal. Better actually. The UI is completely themeable so I see a lot of potential to have themes specific to different types of users.

Maro 15y ago
Let me say again that I think OpenPhoto is a good/interesting idea. My responses: 1) It's a laptop that's constantly moving / offline, so no. I think you should take this issue seriously, because users like myself perceive hard drive space to be "free" or at least we already paid for it, but paying $10/mo just for photo storage seems kind of steep compares to the harddrive+Flickr $2/mo option. 2) Come on now... I think you should think of some nifty sync feature so people can edit locally and upload async. 3) Great! If you have a nice UI, you should put a nice big picture on the landing page right in my face!