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Quite a lot of users keep uploading daily. If you do that, your "Streak number" grows. Once you stop uploading for more than two days - the streak number goes b

Quite a lot of users keep uploading daily. If you do that, your "Streak number" grows. Once you stop uploading for more than two days - the streak number goes back to zero (you can still upload those missed photos though). You can see a list of users sorted by their streak number here: https://tookapic.com/projects?sort=streak https://tookapic.com/projects?sort=streak

techaddict009 11y ago
Awesome work. Can you share tech stack used? And what exactly you use to store the photos? Edit: I see you are using imgix but I feel they are bit costly. Did you compare them with anyone before finalizing them?
- Idered 11y ago
  As backend framework we're using Laravel hosted on digital ocean. Images are hosted on Amazon S3, we also queue uploads to S3 with SQS. Imgix is great service and I can't even imagine building tookapic without it. For database we use postgresql. Any other questions :)?
  - techaddict009 11y ago
    Almost similar stack we use. Good to hear that :) Confusion you use s3 for images then why do you use imagix too?
  - Idered 11y ago
    S3 for hosting, imgix for image manipulation
  - Killswitch 11y ago
    I just saw this thread while browsing the Show HN section. Nice stack, Laravel is a good framework. My only suggestion would be with the domain you have, make user pages subdomains. It's easy to achieve in Laravel and makes a more pleasing url. Instead of https://tookapic.com/photos/21408 https://tookapic.com/photos/21408 you could make it https://pawelkadysz.tookapic.com/21408 https://pawelkadysz.tookapic.com/21408 And even take that a step further and use slugs for urls instead of ID's https://pawelkadysz.tookapic.com/playing-with-light https://pawelkadysz.tookapic.com/playing-with-light URL design is a huge thing that many often ignore, but I feel is essential to a website.
    - pawelkadysz 11y ago
      Thanks for the suggestion. Actually we're testing premium features, like custom domains and themes. username.tookapic.com would be reserved for premium users. Right now pawelkadysz.tookapic.com points to 404 (which should be fixed next week). But the custom domain hooked up to the site works just fine, see for yourself: http://daily.pawelkadysz.com http://daily.pawelkadysz.com - this is the kind of premium theme I'm talking about (it's all powered by tookapic). As for the slugs and URLs. At first we had it like this: tookapic.com/username/ID-slug but we had some issues with people changing their usernames (that's allowed) and putting weird characters in the photo titles, which all resulted in breaking the links and pointing to 404 in the end. That's why we changed it to how it works now. No username change nor emoji in photo title will break the link now.
      - Killswitch 11y ago
        Ah cool cool. For slug issues, Laravel comes with a support strings helper function for turning strings into slugs. Regarding usernames, well I see the usecases for allowing changes and not allowing. So I guess that's up to you. All in all, I love the project. I'm not a photographer but the design of the site is beautiful, and well. I'm jealous. haha.

techaddict009 11y ago

Awesome work. Can you share tech stack used? And what exactly you use to store the photos? Edit: I see you are using imgix but I feel they are bit costly. Did you compare them with anyone before finalizing them?

Idered 11y ago
As backend framework we're using Laravel hosted on digital ocean. Images are hosted on Amazon S3, we also queue uploads to S3 with SQS. Imgix is great service and I can't even imagine building tookapic without it. For database we use postgresql. Any other questions :)?
- techaddict009 11y ago
  Almost similar stack we use. Good to hear that :) Confusion you use s3 for images then why do you use imagix too?
- Idered 11y ago
  S3 for hosting, imgix for image manipulation
- Killswitch 11y ago
  I just saw this thread while browsing the Show HN section. Nice stack, Laravel is a good framework. My only suggestion would be with the domain you have, make user pages subdomains. It's easy to achieve in Laravel and makes a more pleasing url. Instead of https://tookapic.com/photos/21408 https://tookapic.com/photos/21408 you could make it https://pawelkadysz.tookapic.com/21408 https://pawelkadysz.tookapic.com/21408 And even take that a step further and use slugs for urls instead of ID's https://pawelkadysz.tookapic.com/playing-with-light https://pawelkadysz.tookapic.com/playing-with-light URL design is a huge thing that many often ignore, but I feel is essential to a website.
  - pawelkadysz 11y ago
    Thanks for the suggestion. Actually we're testing premium features, like custom domains and themes. username.tookapic.com would be reserved for premium users. Right now pawelkadysz.tookapic.com points to 404 (which should be fixed next week). But the custom domain hooked up to the site works just fine, see for yourself: http://daily.pawelkadysz.com http://daily.pawelkadysz.com - this is the kind of premium theme I'm talking about (it's all powered by tookapic). As for the slugs and URLs. At first we had it like this: tookapic.com/username/ID-slug but we had some issues with people changing their usernames (that's allowed) and putting weird characters in the photo titles, which all resulted in breaking the links and pointing to 404 in the end. That's why we changed it to how it works now. No username change nor emoji in photo title will break the link now.
    - Killswitch 11y ago
      Ah cool cool. For slug issues, Laravel comes with a support strings helper function for turning strings into slugs. Regarding usernames, well I see the usecases for allowing changes and not allowing. So I guess that's up to you. All in all, I love the project. I'm not a photographer but the design of the site is beautiful, and well. I'm jealous. haha.