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My first thought was Apple or Google is going to buy this. Love the UI, but nobody is going to pay a subscription fee for it (and I doubt that is the business p

by dsl 14y ago

My first thought was Apple or Google is going to buy this. Love the UI, but nobody is going to pay a subscription fee for it (and I doubt that is the business plan anyway).

elithrar 14y ago
> My first thought was Apple or Google is going to buy this. Love the UI, but nobody is going to pay a subscription fee for it (and I doubt that is the business plan anyway). I think the price is fair, especially as a dedicated backup service (i.e. a third backup dest.). If their terms & features are strong enough they'll likely pick up a following from enthusiast photographers who are tired of Flickr/500px and want somewhere where private is the default.
- ishansharma 14y ago
  I tried it two months back but didn't go premium as there's essentially no organisation. I am used to store pics in sync-date folder names like Picasa. I just went for Picasa, which tags people efficiently, has other features and costs $2.49/month for 100 GB! Though I left Picasa once they started uploading to Google+ by default. Private or not, I didn't like that. It also lacked some features as compared to Picasa Web. Now I just use Cubby to sync my photos folder and Picasa organises them.
  - veidr 14y ago
    I also paid recently, because this is the only service that I know of that lets me share e.g. baby pics with my family only, and creates attractive web albums automatically, but still let them download everything as a zip file. I too was stumped by the seeming lack of organization, but if you use a tool like iPhoto or aperture, you can organize things by events as opposed albums. I hadn't really used events previously, so that took some figuring out. Look for me it works pretty well once I did. I can generally let it just sync all my pictures from all my PCs and phones and so forth, but when I need to I can make an event in something like iPhoto, and then share that as a photo page with the zip file download option for my sharees. Well worth the money so far, although we'll see what happens to their 'unlimited' storage when I really try to upload my 500 GB Aperture collection (which is only that big because I'm too lazy to ever delete photos)...
zzzmarcus 14y ago
Paying for it was a no-brainer for me. It's an easy to maintain, well designed site and app that's not a another backup black-hole where photos are safe, but too hard to actually look at. That's easily worth a few dollars a month/year.
swisspol 14y ago
(Everpix founder here) You'd be surprised - our subscription rates actually tend to prove people are more than willing to pay for what we want to be a high-quality and very innovative photo platform :)
- drcongo 14y ago
  I'm one of those subscribers. I tried it out for a month, fell in love and signed up without a second thought. The only thing it lacks for me is handling all the videos from my cameras too.
- dsl 14y ago
  I didn't realize you did photo storage/backup too. Your website just shows a snappy mobile app for viewing the photos on my phone. With that in mind, the subscription model makes sense.
baby 14y ago
People pay for Dropbox and iTunes Match (I did and I usually NEVER pay for things on internet). And since the price seems fair, I'm really considering buying it right now. So if this works on me, this is going to work on a lot of people.

by dsl 14y ago

My first thought was Apple or Google is going to buy this. Love the UI, but nobody is going to pay a subscription fee for it (and I doubt that is the business plan anyway).

elithrar 14y ago

> My first thought was Apple or Google is going to buy this. Love the UI, but nobody is going to pay a subscription fee for it (and I doubt that is the business plan anyway). I think the price is fair, especially as a dedicated backup service (i.e. a third backup dest.). If their terms & features are strong enough they'll likely pick up a following from enthusiast photographers who are tired of Flickr/500px and want somewhere where private is the default.

ishansharma 14y ago
I tried it two months back but didn't go premium as there's essentially no organisation. I am used to store pics in sync-date folder names like Picasa. I just went for Picasa, which tags people efficiently, has other features and costs $2.49/month for 100 GB! Though I left Picasa once they started uploading to Google+ by default. Private or not, I didn't like that. It also lacked some features as compared to Picasa Web. Now I just use Cubby to sync my photos folder and Picasa organises them.
- veidr 14y ago
  I also paid recently, because this is the only service that I know of that lets me share e.g. baby pics with my family only, and creates attractive web albums automatically, but still let them download everything as a zip file. I too was stumped by the seeming lack of organization, but if you use a tool like iPhoto or aperture, you can organize things by events as opposed albums. I hadn't really used events previously, so that took some figuring out. Look for me it works pretty well once I did. I can generally let it just sync all my pictures from all my PCs and phones and so forth, but when I need to I can make an event in something like iPhoto, and then share that as a photo page with the zip file download option for my sharees. Well worth the money so far, although we'll see what happens to their 'unlimited' storage when I really try to upload my 500 GB Aperture collection (which is only that big because I'm too lazy to ever delete photos)...

zzzmarcus 14y ago

Paying for it was a no-brainer for me. It's an easy to maintain, well designed site and app that's not a another backup black-hole where photos are safe, but too hard to actually look at. That's easily worth a few dollars a month/year.

swisspol 14y ago

(Everpix founder here) You'd be surprised - our subscription rates actually tend to prove people are more than willing to pay for what we want to be a high-quality and very innovative photo platform :)

drcongo 14y ago
I'm one of those subscribers. I tried it out for a month, fell in love and signed up without a second thought. The only thing it lacks for me is handling all the videos from my cameras too.
dsl 14y ago
I didn't realize you did photo storage/backup too. Your website just shows a snappy mobile app for viewing the photos on my phone. With that in mind, the subscription model makes sense.

baby 14y ago

People pay for Dropbox and iTunes Match (I did and I usually NEVER pay for things on internet). And since the price seems fair, I'm really considering buying it right now. So if this works on me, this is going to work on a lot of people.