joneath

It's been four months of hacking and now I am ready to show the world Portrit. Portrit brings you your Facebook friends in visual experience. Portrit is all about your friends photos and making the Facebook experience cleaner, quicker, and more fun.

Create a account at http://portrit.com/create_account/ Use the key HN. Limited supply!

I started working on Portrit because Facebook's photo service is junk and I wanted something better. Originally this was a personal side project but it has grown into my first startup! This is just a limited preview launch with official public beta coming soon.

If you don't have a Facebook account or just don't trust me with you data :), check out this blog post showing all the functionality of Portrit. http://blog.portrit.com/what-is-portrit

Check out my blog post on the features and functionality of Portrit: http://blog.portrit.com/what-is-portrit

Today I am pre-announcing Portrit. Portrit is your Facebook as photos. Take Facebook, distill it to the simplest parts and put the focus on photos and you got Portrit.

I started making Portrit four months ago when I realized that Facebook's photo service really sucks. Photos on Facebook are tucked away behind many clicks from the home page. Once you do get to them you are greeted by a photo viewer that is dated to say the least. I knew there was a better way of viewing photos so that's when I started on Portrit.

Portrit is a persistent state web app that uses a single page. Around 95% of the code base runs as client side JavaScript. I am using LocalStorage and SessionStorage to cache all Facebook queries to make it fly.

I will be opening up a public beta in the next few days and of course HN will be the first place to get Beta keys.

Here is the landing page where you can signup for the beta: http://portrit.com

Hi HN, I am a graduating software engineer that will be launching my own startup soon. What started out as a side project has turned into something I believe other people would use. I have now decided to make it into a business!

As a software engineer I want to work for a startup but I am worried that my ambition may be a turn off for companies. Is a junior software engineer that has started a company unattractive to employers or is it a plus? This question can be abstracted to include all engineers/professions.

P.S. I wouldn't mind advice on company organization types (LLC, S Corp, C Corp) or anything else relating to starting your own business.