Show HN: my weekend project, Swapshot!

http://itunes.com/apps/swapshot/

by sahillavingia • 15 years ago

13 18 15 years ago

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xpaulbettsx• 15 years ago

Your description is a bit lacking - what does this do?

sahillavingia5• 15 years ago

You take a picture, and it returns you another picture taken by another Swapshot user.

Just an MVP, if it gets a little bit of traction I'll see what I can add to it (e.g. "taken 5 miles away, 4 minutes ago"). :)

ansy2• 15 years ago

I had the same question. You should probably explain a little more in the app's description at the very least.

Like other social media type products, I think people want to see that other people are using it before using it themselves. You don't have any signs of life when opening the app to let the user know if anyone's home. No counter of photos uploaded, no number of "online" users, no stream of incoming pictures.

I guess further down the line it would be nice to know if the images you get are somehow more interesting than just randomly scraping images.google.com. Voting, being either close of far geographically, color similarity, temporal locality. Anything.

tshtf• 15 years ago

We are unable to find iTunes on your computer.

Could someone post a summary for us Linux users?

fuzzmeister• 15 years ago

This link leads to a summary page if you don't have iTunes installed:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swapshot/id432027349?mt=8

pavel_lishin2• 15 years ago

So, it's an automated way of showing me strange men's penises?

sahillavingia5• 15 years ago

No penises yet!

pavel_lishin2• 15 years ago

Sorry, I'm trying to take them as quick as I can, but the camera on my phone is slow. :)

Anyway, me neither - mostly people that look like they're trying it out by taking a picture of whatever's nearest.

cincinnatus• 15 years ago

So far the MTBP is infinite, thankfully.

Herwig• 15 years ago

This is cooler than color. And im willing to bet it took 41 million dollars less...

scottchin• 15 years ago

Cool stuff. Will check it out. Did you do the graphics and icons yourself? What framework did you use to manage the backend exchanging of photos?

sahillavingia5• 15 years ago

A little API on App Engine is the backend (Python). Yeah, did the graphics stuff myself.

JCB_K• 15 years ago

Wasn't Photoswap the next big thing in 2008? http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/photoswap-bring/

mdonahoe• 15 years ago

I used to have that app. I had a couple fun interactions using the reply feature.

xuki• 15 years ago

I uploaded multiple photos but always get the same photo back. Is this a bug?

sahillavingia5• 15 years ago

Check out pictures taken with Swapshot here: http://swapshotapp.appspot.com/random.png

Show HN: my weekend project, Swapshot!

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