I have compared Photo Stream and Google+ for this scenario (i.e. taking photo on iPhone and see them appear on the respective cloud storages). Despite Google+'s awesome anytime-anywhere availability, its upload/backup speed feels much slower compared to Photo Stream. But the fact that I need a garbage like iPhoto to access those photos on Mac makes it a deal-breaker for me.
So while I'm already sold on Loom's Mac-based access to the photos, I'd be willing to jump ship if the following are satisfied:
1. Upload/Backup should feel as instantaneous as Photo Stream, especially with WiFi connections.
2. (This is different than my original point) Loom shows commitment to its users by some kind of a promise that even if it gets acquired it will not shutdown the essential servers or at the very least not ask us to archive and download all the photos we've put into it so far. I had a lot of hope with Snapjoy and it turned into a killjoy after its Dropbox acquisition. I'd like to stick to a service like this on a long-term basis.
That seems...niggardly.
Still... I wouldn't dare say that word when "stingy" would suffice. Yes, it IS accurate, but perception still means so much, hence your downvoting into oblivion.
The fact is, I'd much rather have everything local and pay a backup provider a small annual fee to keep a client-side encrypted backup for me.
I have plenty of bandwidth to my house for sharing photos and videos with friends. All I'm missing is the low-power plug server to host the app. It doesn't make sense for my photos and videos to live in a data center with low latency disk, Gbit networks and redundant power and cooling -- it's total overkill.
Photo and video storage is a perfect application for user hosted SaaS since there's so little cross-talk between users, and the vast majority of data is almost never looked at.
By the way, just because it's running on my own hardware, doesn't mean I wouldn't pay a monthly fee for the software!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloud-guys/plug-the-brai...
Let's say I was taking pictures of friends at a baseball game, along with a couple of other shots of the surroundings. I want to put the pictures of friends in "friends" album, but I also want to put those same pictures in the overarching "baseball" album, or the album for that particular game. It seems as though you have nested albums, which is nice, but this would be a good usecase to look into.
Also, while I was playing around, I created an album that I wanted to get rid of. I deleted the album and it took all of the pictures in it out of my timeline. I probably should have figured that the albums act more as folders than tags when I discovered that pictures were assigned to a single album, but I can't figure out how to reupload those pictures. Any help?
Congratulations on the launch!
To add a photo to more than one album you can use the 'copy' function. But yea, it would be easier if you could select multiple albums in one process.
Yes, deleting an album will delete its photos. We have a recovery function on our side, but no display for users yet. Will add it soon.
Also, we don't have a way to re-upload photos yet, also very high on our priority list!
Congrats on the launch again.
But, while I've gotten pretty good at taking, beautifying and sharing photos, storing them remains a nightmare. I think Loom has a new and needed approach - hopefully a fix to this difficult, puzzling problem. Personally, I’m pretty excited.
I think Loom's fluid and extremely simple approach beats every previous app or service I've considered in the past. Pretty excited to try it out.
I want a feature of removing duplicates automatically with help of raw-meta-data hiding behind every digital pics/movies .... is there any such service?
BTW why YC keep funding this kind of startup all the time ... I guess they are getting awesome exit as some big boys will acquire eventually even if you have only one nice features that you get traction with ...
Anyway, Congrats on launching. Hope you can live up to the people's expectations. This space really needs a good service.
The biggest issue I have with photos is the cost of the storage. As much as I'd like sharing and convenient access and everything, right now I just dump them all in iPhoto on my mac and backblaze takes care of it.
Hahaha, I'm such a joker.
