Tag Archives: photo

An Open Sourced Post-Mortem

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With the Everpix shutdown behind us, we had the chance to put together a significant dataset covering our business from fundraising to metrics. We hope this rare and uncensored inside look at the internals of a startup will benefit the startup community.

While their business ultimately failed, the impact of Everpix on future startups could be profound. Not often does a business – any business – willingly disclose raw information in this way.

iOS Suggestion: Photo Selection

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When you want to use a photo in iOS, the typical path is to tap a camera or share icon, then choose from one of two options: take a new photo or choose from the library. What’s needed is a third standard option: to use the last photo added to the camera roll. While some apps have manually coded a solution to this iOS oversight, it really ought to be a system-wide default option. This addition to the OS would allow any app to increase the speed and ease of use for users when choosing a photo.

Photographer: John Chakeres

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“I don’t see myself as a traditional photographer, but as an image builder, trying to capture an essence, which results in images that translate as pleasurable experiences to viewers, pleasurable because it is, not because of what it is, where it is or why it is.  My photographs exist within themselves, detailed portraits of the crossroads where art and technology meet.”

I had the pleasure of working with John a few years back in a retail technology setting. The way he has incorporated technology into his art, and his art into a career makes him a rich story teller and nice guy. The desolate yet richly textured materials of his work are fantastic.

Beat Me To It

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The Verge has compiled a list of services for managing and syncing your photos, to and from your smartphone. I’d actually been working on essentially the same thing, and gladly defer to their work as it makes a great reference when considering what will work best in your situation.

The only service not on there that I was going to include was Adobe Revel:

  • Free Apps for OS X, iOS (Universal) and web (no editing)
  • Free tier: 50 photos/month paid tier: $5.99/month unlimited
  • JPEG only

The answer is that there is no simple answer to photo management, backup and syncing. Depending on which platforms you use, what kind of photos you shoot, how you use or share them, and what you’re willing to spend will all factor into what works best for you.

The bigger question is this: who will solve the photo problem? The idea of keeping things in sync and backed up has been solved for documents (Dropbox, et al). It has been solved for music (Spotify, et al). Who will solve this for photos, and what will that solution look like? There’s like this Maslow’s hierarchy of storage needs and photos are the next step in achieving digital self-actualization. The solution is not yet clear, but the topic is growing in conversation as more people are talking and writing about it. Right now, it seems like most companies are hoping they can say “someone else beat me to it.”