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We're working on our messaging :). By decoupling the application from the photo storage you essentially increase the options you have for keeping your photos f

by jmathai 14y ago

We're working on our messaging :). By decoupling the application from the photo storage you essentially increase the options you have for keeping your photos for a longer time. If Yahoo! shuts down Flickr you have to figure out what to do. Download a zip file of a few thousand photos? Then what? Upload them somewhere else? Our approach is multi-fold (hence us working on the messaging). If Dropbox shuts down or increases their price or you find someone else you like better then you can use our tools to migrate your photos from Dropbox to BetterDropbox while retaining albums, tags, comments, etc. Your mobile apps will continue to work how they always have. it's 100% transparent for you. If we shut down you can still have the same benefits. Everything we've done has always been open source[1]. That important because anyone can take the torch and run with it. Not so if Flickr dies. So as far as we can tell, this is the most effective way (yet) to ensure you don't lose your photos in the long run. [1] https://github.com/photo https://github.com/photo

glenra 14y ago
My photos are initially and primarily on my Mac, then I upload selected albums (that I expect/intend to share) to flickr. And also synchronize a substantial fraction of them to my iDevices. If flickr gets shut down then yes, I'd expect I have to upload them somewhere else...which I can do from my Mac. It sounds like your target audience is people who don't ever put their photos in one central location under their control (say, an iPhoto library), don't back up that location, and care a lot about preserving not just their photos but the online comments received on those photos? When you say "Your mobile apps will continue to work how they always have. it's 100% transparent for you" - Um, what problem is it that you're solving here? What sort of "mobile apps" are you expecting would fail when dropbox or flickr shuts down?
- jmathai 14y ago
  > It sounds like your target audience is people who don't ever put their photos in one central location under their control (say, an iPhoto library), don't back up that location, and care a lot about preserving not just their photos but the online comments received on those photos? I believe it's an OR, not an AND. If you don't have one spot where you keep all your photos then we help you do that. Not sure if you're married or not but my wife's photos are not on my Mac and not in my iPhoto. > Um, what problem is it that you're solving here? What sort of "mobile apps" are you expecting would fail when dropbox or flickr shuts down? Your Flickr or Dropbox app.

by jmathai 14y ago

glenra 14y ago

My photos are initially and primarily on my Mac, then I upload selected albums (that I expect/intend to share) to flickr. And also synchronize a substantial fraction of them to my iDevices. If flickr gets shut down then yes, I'd expect I have to upload them somewhere else...which I can do from my Mac. It sounds like your target audience is people who don't ever put their photos in one central location under their control (say, an iPhoto library), don't back up that location, and care a lot about preserving not just their photos but the online comments received on those photos? When you say "Your mobile apps will continue to work how they always have. it's 100% transparent for you" - Um, what problem is it that you're solving here? What sort of "mobile apps" are you expecting would fail when dropbox or flickr shuts down?

jmathai 14y ago
> It sounds like your target audience is people who don't ever put their photos in one central location under their control (say, an iPhoto library), don't back up that location, and care a lot about preserving not just their photos but the online comments received on those photos? I believe it's an OR, not an AND. If you don't have one spot where you keep all your photos then we help you do that. Not sure if you're married or not but my wife's photos are not on my Mac and not in my iPhoto. > Um, what problem is it that you're solving here? What sort of "mobile apps" are you expecting would fail when dropbox or flickr shuts down? Your Flickr or Dropbox app.