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Hmmm, they wanted to create Dropbox for photographers... Have they heard about Flicker (as far as I remember they offer unlimited space for a few dollars a yea

by piokoch 14y ago

Hmmm, they wanted to create Dropbox for photographers... Have they heard about Flicker (as far as I remember they offer unlimited space for a few dollars a year)? What's the big surprise they did not get funding? True, Venture Capital bussiness is totally broken, they throw money into a lot of crap ideas, but not that crap. I guess that Dropbox for storing MS Office documents or Dropbox for storing MP3 files (I have so many of them!) are also weak ideas, given the generic Dropbox can handle that (and Skydrive or Google Drive too).

retube 14y ago
Christ your comment is both rude and ignorant. You have no idea what the tech being proposed was. The point is photographers have huge data volumes to deal with. A similar problem exists with media companies who need to transfer around massive video files - and there is indeed a niche indistry that specialise in providing fast file transfers (e.g using UDP not TCP). Your sarcastic and insulting commentary is not needed here.
nicholassmith 14y ago
The photography industry is worth fortunes, and whilst Flickr does offer 'unlimited' photo storage it's with conditions (maximum filesizes etc). Dropbox itself can handle photography, it's what a lot of photographers use for sharing shoots back with models but a dedicated one for images only with smart meta data usage and a few other features would make it very attractive to the photographers I know.