Ask YC: Photo Centralization Service

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=273531
by waynep • 18 years ago
3 4 18 years ago

Recently, I've been receiving a lot of links to photo galleries where I was at an event and people have taken photos. My friends aren't very tech savvy so photo gallery usage is fragmented amongst them (picasa, facebook, fotki, kodakgallery, etc...).

I want to save these galleries in a centralized place online. I want to put in a url of a gallery I want to keep. Not just simply a bookmark, but the service should rip the photos and store it. As it stands right now, I'll probably never revisit the photo gallery or I'll have to come up with a way to rip it myself.

Most photosharing sites are about sharing not consuming or 'collecting'. I think this would be a great idea for a service, something akin to friendfeed but photos based. Is there such a service already? If not I think it would make a great company simply from solving a problem standpoint not necessarily a business plan one.

Thoughts or suggestions on such a service?

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