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Our motivation for Pixter
- tuananh 13y agoSo this is like the bastard son of App.net and Instagram?
- faizanaziz 13y agoWe wanted use instagram but with App.net's TOS/Privacy and general interest towards users. I would say inspired by both of them
- iaskwhy 13y ago> We are exited to launch our latest app - Pixter. The first sentence had some strange effect on my brain. It's just a small typo but given the context my brain had some problems parsing it.
- faizanaziz 13y agoThanks for that… 'break;'
- shaunpud 13y agoNot everyone uses iO(PO)S Live filter is pretty cool though.
- lucian1900 13y agoI have resigned myself to completely ignoring iOS-only products. It's less annoying that way.
- faizanaziz 13y agoAs a person who cares about technology in general, its not that simple to make that choice. Especially when your just starting of… Thanks for your feedback, will definitely look into it
- lucian1900 13y agoI feel there's plenty of new technology around to make the cost of ignoring apps specific to a platform I don't use (at least on my phone, anyway) not a problem.
- faizanaziz 13y agoThis whole product… The app and the web server was built by 2 guys in about 3 months… If we need to have good quality apps we need to spend time on them. We launched iOS first because of higher willingness to pay(usually). Stay tuned for more
- robotmay 13y agoIt looks good (somewhat like the better parts of Google+) and I like that you're looking at other ways of monetising it than advertising. Personally I'd be more likely to pay a one-off fee for a mobile app than a subscription, but that might be due to my low usage of them. I hope it works out for you :)
- theanirudh 13y agoIm really glad that you liked the design, it inspires me to do more. Pixter is a full service and the iOS app is just a part of it. We have a lot of features planned, and we are just getting started. We need support from people like you! PS: we have a free account, which allows you to follow as many people as you want. It's like a read-only mode, writes are limited to 12 photos a year :) Every sign up helps!
- Yuioup 13y agoSorry to be offtopic but I'm beginning to get annoyed of all the stories that have a title that give you no indication of what the story is about. For example the top story "Glass". Am I supposed to automatically know what that is about? Same with this story. I click on the title and it's basically an announcement for a new service named "Pixter". Why not put this in the title. Is Hacker News a site exclusive to Silicon Valley insiders? I live far, far away from Silicon valley. Am I supposed to infer the topic of the article by looking at the title and go "Ah yes, that's the talk of the town you know. Glass and Pixter".
- k-mcgrady 13y agoWhile I agree that the Glass title isn't very descriptive this one seems fine to me. It names two companies most people will be familiar with which makes it obvious that Pixter is a related company and this article will probably be about why they started it.
- faizanaziz 13y agoThis is not an announcement for pixter. We did that sometime back. This article is about difference between free vs paid services and why we chose to build pixter. We do have an introduction paragraph about pixter without which the article would not make sense to people who don't know what pixter is. Sorry about that, it was not our intention. To make it clear I have added Pixter to the title
- Yuioup 13y agoThanks! That's a lot clearer. (PS: Despite my criticism, HN is by far the best tech news site around. To everyone involved: Keep it up!)
- porker 13y agoI just read the article and I couldn't see more than a mention in passing of App.net and Twitter. Certainly nothing about one vs the other.
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- markdown 13y agoThe copy on pixter.in is saturated in negativity. Your demo is all the way at the bottom, while you use the top of the page to bash the incumbent market leader and say how much better yours is. I don't think that's a good way to sell a product.
- faizanaziz 13y agoThanks for your advice… Our logic was that since most people know about photo sharing we need to tell them how our product is different. Then we can say what other features we have. We will look into it
- markdown 13y agoI wish you the best :) I'm impressed it was built by two dudes in such a short timeframe. I've been working on my webapp for almost an entire year.
- protomyth 13y agoCan I download my photos after I take them? If no third-party can sublicense the photos, does that mean that third-party websites / apps cannot display the photos inline?
- theanirudh 13y agoYes, we provide an option to export all your photos. Its in the settings of the app. Third parties that want to display your pictures can only do so for pictures that are shared publicly(more private options coming soon). They have basic caching options, but cannot store the image, and most importantly cannot use them out of context.
- da_n 13y agoReally hope this goes somewhere for the developers, I much prefer the paid model (I pay for Fastmail for example) and would certainly consider paying for a really good app/service. As someone else mentioned, they would do well to at least confirm the existence of other platforms (like Android) and any plans they may (or may not) have. However going iOS first they do stand a good chance of getting Gruber, Dalrymple, Marco etc posting about it as they love those iOS exclusives these days ("iOS is superior because we get apps like this" type posts). I don't blame them going iOS first, but ignoring everything else is definitely a bad idea. Good luck anyway, if you get an Android app will be sure to try it.
- faizanaziz 13y agoThanks so much. We need support from users like you and that's what matters. We understand the need to come to other platforms, at the moment it is tough because of limited time. We have worked really hard over the past 3 months to come to this. There are only two of us, one designer and one coder.
- da_n 13y agoNo I totally get it, if I was doing an app which ultimately would be multi-platform, it would be foolish not to consider going iOS first despite any personal preference. You've done a great job, just wish I could support it.
- raphdg 13y agoSad to see that the awesome features are not directly related to the awesomeness of the product, but totally focused on some terms of services about property and privacy...
- faizanaziz 13y agoCan you please explain?
- raphdg 13y agoMy rights as a paying user should be one (and it is a very nice one I admit) among other features that make the user experience of pixter awesome. Instead, I land on pixter.in and I see 6 bullet points all focused on this one feature, as if Pixter had nothing else to offer.
- faizanaziz 13y agoOh ok… Thanks for that… The rest of the page talk about the features of the app, but I see your point… Will definitely look into it and change it.
- programminggeek 13y agoEvery time you see a big, free, ad-supported or VC funded startup with millions of users, just know that there is probably a place for a paid application that is basically the same app only charging money. Even for social networks and things, people will gladly pay money for value you provide. The problem is that it's not the kind of thing that VC's will get as excited about, because unless you can grow into many millions of dollars of revenue fast, it's probably not an interesting way to turn over their money. So, GMail, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, even something like Groupon could exist as a successful paid app with a one time or recurring revenue stream.
- theanirudh 13y agoAgreed. Thats why approaching VC's does not make sense for us and we need support from our users.
- ameen 13y agoCongrats Faizan. Wonderful to see this come out of India, a soft target for free services. Keep at it guys. The first few months of running a paid service is crucial, once you hit critical mass, there's gonna be no looking back.
- faizanaziz 13y agoThanks so much Ameen. We are in it for the long haul, lets hope for the best. Thank you so much for your advice and support.