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Kicksend + Walmart: Order Prints for Pickup at 3,800+ Walmart Stores
- kayhi 13y ago"all 50 states, including Hawaii, Alaska" As an Alaskan, we like to think we are always included in the 50 states.
- onedev 13y agoSometimes we forget about Hawaii and Alaska but we still love you wonderful people who get to live in those beautiful place :)
- acchow 13y agoIt should probably say "all 50 states and the District of Columbia"
- pekk 13y agoand then you get a big paycheck from the government indicating that all is not the same in Alaska
- smackfu 13y agoDealing with Walmart is like making a deal with the devil.
- malloreon 13y agocongratulations kicksend team!
- dmourati 13y agoHint: no one cares about printing from online. This is a lesson we learned the hard way at Eye-Fi. Good luck.
- moultano 13y agoHow long ago did you guys try it? Do you think there's any chance habits have changed in the meantime?
- jmathai 13y agoCan you clarify what you mean by "printing from online"?
- toomuchtodo 13y agoSending pictures from web apps or mobile to be printed and sent to someone.
- jsonne 13y agoDid you do this through the PNI Media API? http://developer.pnimedia.com/ http://developer.pnimedia.com/
- jmathai 13y agoI find this very odd. Walmart uses the PNI Media API for its own app? http://developer.pnimedia.com/Blog/TabId/90/PostId/12/walmart-canada-launches-next-generation-iphone-app.aspx http://developer.pnimedia.com/Blog/TabId/90/PostId/12/walmar... Never heard of PNI before.
- greenyoda 13y agoI couldn't figure out from Kicksend's web site how much the service costs. I expect to be able to find a list of services and prices prominently linked from the home page. Also, Walmart offers their own digital photo printing service, which currently delivers photos in 3-5 days: http://photos.walmart.com/walmart/storepage/storePageId=Prints http://photos.walmart.com/walmart/storepage/storePageId=Prin... If Kicksend catches on, what's to stop Walmart from cutting out the middleman by offering their own phone app and expedited service? And since Walmart already has all the infrastructure for digitally uploading and printing photos, it would probably be a lot cheaper for them to write their own app than to buy Kicksend. So Kicksend seems like a business that could be killed by their own success.
- unwind 13y agoHeh. Not having any idea what Kicksend does, I read "print" and "pickup" and assumed this was about 3D printing. Being able to order 3D prints and pick them up at Walmart sounded like a major leap, so I was rather disappointed to see the blog entry talk about photo printing. Reading "Walmart has a wide range of popular print sizes you know and love, including 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10" made me feel somewhat underwhelmed. Maybe I'm jaded, but I'm not very impressed about the fact that they can print photos on different-sized papers (none of which I "love").
- ck2 13y agoI wonder how long until everyone can just afford a $100 dye-sub printer.
- mjolk 13y agoGreat, print more things on paper and in the process, help Walmart. Awesome hack guys, I look forward to your next project that partners with Exxon.