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I'm 2 years into a photo service and disk space has never been the determining cost factor. Space is only used to get users to upgrade to a paying account. I do

by jmathai 13y ago

I'm 2 years into a photo service and disk space has never been the determining cost factor. Space is only used to get users to upgrade to a paying account. I don't downplay the importance of that though, it's critical to figure out how you're going to make money today and not once you have a few million users. In Yahoo!'s case it's about getting more engagement and users.

robotmay 13y ago
I'm hoping to offer a bunch of features other than unlimited photo uploads to entice users into subscriptions. More features, such as being able to share private collections (albums/sets) with others, or increased control over what they see on the site. I'm looking to launch it proper in the next couple of weeks once I have the TOS finalised and the company set up. And I'm always open to any suggestions users have for features they'd like to see :)
- yardie 13y ago
  Please, have a plugin for the major photo packages (Lightroom, Aperture, iPhoto, etc). Making it easy to get the images into your site lowers the barrier dramatically. I stick with flickr because I use Aperture. It can export directly to my flickr account and means I have one less headache.
  - robotmay 13y ago
    These are definitely on the horizon. This is one of the things that has been on my to-do list from the start. I did look into how the integrations work, IIRC Lightroom was pretty straightforward, but I assume Aperture can't be that much more tricky :)
  - jmathai 13y ago
    Don't underestimate this. The first thing anyone will want to do is import/upload their photos.
deanclatworthy 13y ago
Wow, your offering looks rather promising. A reasonable price for unlimited storage, and importing all photos from other services.
- robotmay 13y ago
  Photo import is something I want to offer, but I need to make sure it doesn't break the terms of service of the other sites before I add it :) I'm working out the subscription cost at the moment; I'm currently thinking around £25 per year. Does that sound reasonable? I'll very likely offer a discount to any beta users who upgrade within the first month or so too, as I'm really grateful for any and all feedback.
  - jmathai 13y ago
    Most API rate limits are stated in the developer docs. By default I stay below 1 request per second and that seems to work for most APIs. If you wait long enough we'll eventually open source our import infrastructure :).
    - robotmay 13y ago
      Doh, I feel like a pillock now - didn't realise Dean was talking about openphoto. I've not seen it before; it's a great idea. I haven't got an API yet (but it will be coming soon after beta) and I'm all about freedom of data and information, so if you fancied supporting Photographer.io as another data source in the future I'd be more than happy to help. I've worked a bit with Flickr's API in the past and found it very reasonable, so hopefully adding support for importing from there shouldn't be too tricky.
      - jmathai 13y ago
        Feel free to ping me (jaisen@{hackernewsusername}.com) to chat. I've got plenty of opinions to hand out for free.

by jmathai 13y ago

robotmay 13y ago

I'm hoping to offer a bunch of features other than unlimited photo uploads to entice users into subscriptions. More features, such as being able to share private collections (albums/sets) with others, or increased control over what they see on the site. I'm looking to launch it proper in the next couple of weeks once I have the TOS finalised and the company set up. And I'm always open to any suggestions users have for features they'd like to see :)

yardie 13y ago
Please, have a plugin for the major photo packages (Lightroom, Aperture, iPhoto, etc). Making it easy to get the images into your site lowers the barrier dramatically. I stick with flickr because I use Aperture. It can export directly to my flickr account and means I have one less headache.
- robotmay 13y ago
  These are definitely on the horizon. This is one of the things that has been on my to-do list from the start. I did look into how the integrations work, IIRC Lightroom was pretty straightforward, but I assume Aperture can't be that much more tricky :)
- jmathai 13y ago
  Don't underestimate this. The first thing anyone will want to do is import/upload their photos.

deanclatworthy 13y ago

Wow, your offering looks rather promising. A reasonable price for unlimited storage, and importing all photos from other services.

robotmay 13y ago
Photo import is something I want to offer, but I need to make sure it doesn't break the terms of service of the other sites before I add it :) I'm working out the subscription cost at the moment; I'm currently thinking around £25 per year. Does that sound reasonable? I'll very likely offer a discount to any beta users who upgrade within the first month or so too, as I'm really grateful for any and all feedback.
- jmathai 13y ago
  Most API rate limits are stated in the developer docs. By default I stay below 1 request per second and that seems to work for most APIs. If you wait long enough we'll eventually open source our import infrastructure :).
  - robotmay 13y ago
    Doh, I feel like a pillock now - didn't realise Dean was talking about openphoto. I've not seen it before; it's a great idea. I haven't got an API yet (but it will be coming soon after beta) and I'm all about freedom of data and information, so if you fancied supporting Photographer.io as another data source in the future I'd be more than happy to help. I've worked a bit with Flickr's API in the past and found it very reasonable, so hopefully adding support for importing from there shouldn't be too tricky.
    - jmathai 13y ago
      Feel free to ping me (jaisen@{hackernewsusername}.com) to chat. I've got plenty of opinions to hand out for free.