Ask HN: Private Photo Sharing Service

2 points by rt897 11 years ago | 3 comments

Hey Guys, I'm thinking about building a private photo storage & sharing service. The concept is very simple: store your photos on the cloud and share privately with the people you know.

Photos could be shared by email or directly with users (Unshare anytime. Shared by email is a link which opens up the page).

There's also a concept of 'Groups', i.e., a picture can be shared with both "Family" and "Co-workers" groups.

Through the app, photos could be pushed to Instagram, etc. so that you always retain original in one spot.

What do you guys think of the idea? We have already built a platform that we could use to finish this app/service in less than a month.

Thank you.

honorious 11 years ago |

One thing that comes to mind is G+ pictures: it has the sharing functionalities you are planning to have, and it has a lot of more features in term of picture processing.

How do you compete? I can see a few things (maybe simpler / no signup process required, no link to social networks, better sharing with third party services), but you should make a good case on why users would like to use your service rather than going to Google.

rt897 11 years ago | |

Thanks for the feedback. I will try out their App and see how we can differentiate ours.

efji 11 years ago |

have a look at www.sharypic.com/personal (event oriented, but private by default, no signup required to view/contribute, integrated to various platform to easily import/export photo, access to high-quality photos...)