How many places have you stored your photos? (iCloud, Google Photos etc.)

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by mmudassir • 5 years ago

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Hello! All,

I am tackling some product ideas and wondering if you can help me.

It's just a bit of my hobby to tinker around with products, those who carry too many photos in their smartphones - and then they have Google Photos, iCloud, Amazon Photos, Flickr, Facebook, Instagram OneDrive, or Dropbox. And all those services have "auto-sync" set up on your phone.

Then how do you manage those photos? Ever wish to see all your photos from everywhere onto one platform?

Help me answer those questions, and if you have any other questions that you think I should be thinking - love to get your help!

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ssss11• 5 years ago

I think this space is ripe for something better. Your problem will be integrating with vendors device configs (apple, samsung, android etc).

I don’t have them spread out everywhere but I think I’m atypical. A good example are my parents-in-law who used to backup photos on iTunes to their pc (but where’s the redundancy?) and then it changed and they don’t know why (an apple update or crafted prompt?) and everything backs up to iCloud now. They now pay extra to iCloud as they’ve gone over the storage. To export and redo their process would be painful and a huge waste of time… and that’s just with one vendor. Make the management and import/export (portability) easy and I think you’ve got a good market for non techies.

mmudassir2• 5 years ago

Yes, we have that feature too. So you think I should just focus on that idea only?

mikewarot• 5 years ago

I store my photos locally. I share only a few at a time with Flickr, and sometimes via Facebook or email.

The photos (and all my otherstuff) are backed on Backblaze. That's it.

I've taken over 250,000 photos, many with complete strangers in the background (crowds at public places, etc). I don't want any weirdness from facial recognition gone wild messing with my personal life.

mmudassir2• 5 years ago

Okay cool.

Correct and nudge me in the right direction if you can, am I asking the right questions in my survey?

How many places have you stored your photos? (iCloud, Google Photos etc.)

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