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Snapjoy (YC S11) is closing
- rmoriz 13y agoBackground Info: Snapjoy was bought by Dropbox a couple of months ago: http://blog.snapjoy.com/2012/snapjoy-joins-dropbox/ http://blog.snapjoy.com/2012/snapjoy-joins-dropbox/
- eluos 13y agoThat would have been helpful information in the blog entry.
- gesman 13y agoDropbox forced them into STFU mode.
- benologist 13y agoThe post is for their users not for external discussion sites that require additional context.
- ceejayoz 13y ago> "Though we won’t be accepting new signups, existing users can continue to use Snapjoy to share and enjoy photos just as you do now." Not so much, I guess.
- cookiecaper 13y agoHow long did you expect that to remain valid? They've trucked on for six months since the acquisition. Is there a reason to assume that statement was meant as eternally binding?
- timv 13y agoWell it's a fairly big jump from "First and foremost, don’t worry -- your photos are safe!" to "[In one month] all photos and data will be permanently deleted" I can't imagine there are many uses who feel like snapjoy delivered on the sentiment of their "Snapjoy is joining Dropbox" post. "Stay tuned, the best is yet to come" doesn't usually imply we'll give you 1 months notice and then delete all your photos.
- randomfool 13y agoThe short timeframe to migrate your data is worrying given that Dropbox is supposed to be in the 'data saving' business- I'd hope they'd cherish user's data more than this. Also sad that Dropbox isn't investing in a migration story, though I saw Google do the same thing with Picnik when that was shutdown.
- yesplorer 13y agoI doubt if 30 days qualify as short-time for anyone to download their photos from a photo-sharing service. It's most likely that users use this service from their smartphones and so it's not like they are somehow going to miss the notifications they will keep sending perhaps every week your photos are still on their servers
- kalleboo 13y ago> It's most likely that users use this service from their smartphones So you're saying it's likely most of their users are completely unable to back up their photos at all? (since one of the top 2 smartphone OSes doesn't support downloading ZIP files, and the users of the other OS probably don't have enough free space on their MicroSD card)
- hga 13y agoGiven that this is summer when many people are on vacation and have less or no Internet service and often the same for cell phone data service, which is famously limited anyway....
- aw3c2 13y agoMy aunt just went on a 3 month hiking trip through the country.
- cookiecaper 13y agoSix months ago.
- sgrove 13y agoPerhaps a one-click migrate-to-dropbox option is in order?
- mh- 13y agoperhaps if the Snapjoy folks were in a better position to collaborate with these Dropbox people. maybe they can reach out on LinkedIn or something.
- grandalf 13y agoI have been expecting this to happen after the Dropbox acquisition. I'm a big fan of Snapjoy but not looking forward to downloading all the data only to re-upload it to Dropbox.
- kalleboo 13y agoClearly they don't give a shit about their users.
- lmgftp 13y agoLacking easy migrate support, at least the export option exists.
- kine 13y agoA sad day. Big ups to Michael, JP, and the rest of the team. Snapjoy, RIP
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago“After two years of building Snapjoy, the time has come for us to shut down the service.” That is a really weird statement. Shutting down without offering any alternatives is not a normal thing to do for a software company. No word of why they’re shutting down, just ’the time has come’. No apology. Nada. I had to read the comments in this thread to find out they were acquired by Dropbox.
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- beggi 13y agoAnyone else feel like a month of warning before permanently deleting your data is cutting it a bit close?
- Afforess 13y agoObligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1150/ http://xkcd.com/1150/
- Dylan16807 13y agoThat XKCD assumes the person actually got the message, in which case a month is fine. Sending an email doesn't cut it on this short of a timeline. The really weird thing is they had seven months to tell people about this deadline, and waited until six of them had passed.
- cookiecaper 13y agoWhy do you assume the decision was made upon acquisition? Things change.
- kalleboo 13y agoEveryone who follows tech startups saw this one coming. This was a clear acquihire. My company was in the process of acquihiring. We knew from a mile away that they didn't give a crap about continuing the development our product, despite all their promises. We ended up declining (none of us wanted to move to the bay area).
- Dylan16807 13y agoOh they might have procrastinated but the decision should have been made around that time. It's not an excuse to say you wasted so much time deciding how to shut down the service that people need to get out out now now now.
- devcpp 13y agoYou give them one more user, which is worth a lot when a software company negociates its value before a buyout.
- grandalf 13y agoWhy isn't there an automatic migration path to Dropbox?
- kimmel 13y agoOnce again Archive Team has a job to do.
- hkmurakami 13y agoI must say, it's like a superhero movie.
- chid 13y agoI'm guessing this isn't serious. But if you are, I'm pretty sure most of the data on Snapjoy is private rather than public.
- djsmiley2k 13y agoDoesn't mean we aren't looking at it, we are :)
- nashequilibrium 13y agoDid Dropbox buy Snapjoy or did the team decide to join Dropbox because their product was not working out?
- hnriot 13y agoYah, after convincing my daughter it was the way to keep her photos from filling her iPhone she gets a message from the app today saying this. She's in a panic of course about it. And as one last slap in the face, it's 8 separate downloads!
- Patrick_Devine 13y agoBummer. Was it really costing Dropbox a lot to keep the service? From the aquihire blog post in December, I got the impression there never was an intention to keep things running.
- URSpider94 13y agoThis one really has me scratching my head. I always assumed that Snapjoy would merge into Dropbox's photo system, but I also assumed that they would give users the explicit option to port over their accounts to Dropbox. Customer acquisition has always been the name of the game for Dropbox, this seems like a missed opportunity to bring over a good chunk of committed users.
- yesplorer 13y ago> Customer acquisition has always been the name of the game for Dropbox, this seems like a missed opportunity to bring over a good chunk of committed users. Have you considered the fact that perhaps there was no customers to acquire in the first place? I couldn't find the app in the appstore but a Google search for "itunes snapjoy" showed that the app had only being rated with 7 votes.
- URSpider94 13y agoAnyone looking for a place to migrate their library, I recommend Everpix -- at least until they are also acqui-hired. Flickr, too, is looking much more attractive with their revamped free tier, and is certainly likely to be in it for the long haul.
- gdonelli 13y agoData in the cloud might be safe from disk failures, but not safe from acquisitions.
- peterkelly 13y ago"What's Snapjoy? We're building the smart photo library in the cloud" s/We're/We were