Sad. It looks like their technology did a great job at solving a very real problem.
If any of the founders are here, can I ask a question: why did you chose to implement this as a cloud based service, when a little basic Math would suggest that it was a better match as a client-based tool with upgrades?
Take me for example. My internet is 20mb down, 1.5mb up. That's pretty good for Western countries. I currently have around 300gb of photos taken in the last 10 years. That'll take months to upload. But if you made it client based you could do conversion & classification locally. Then uploaded the best into a pinterest style gallery for your website (with social features).
Then offer backups, custom galleries etc as professional features ($5/month for low-res jpeg backups, $20/month for 500gb RAWs). Maybe you could have found a niche with semi-pro photographers who're fed up with flickr? Or families who want to share photos with relatives without the risk of Facebook/Google using them in adverts?
We built a unique image pipeline with excellent full-res image optimizations allowing to save close to 5X in bandwidth and storage costs. Incidentally, it also makes syncing entire life photo collections much faster, that's why the average Everpix user had more than 9,000 photos.
I know I'm probably in the minority, but if I was to pay anyone to store and manage my photos, I'd expect to be able to save the RAW files along. For all I care you can use high quality jpeg for daily use, but the raw needs to be accounted for as well, and storing them separately is tedious work.
If any of the founders are here, can I ask a question: why did you chose to implement this as a cloud based service, when a little basic Math would suggest that it was a better match as a client-based tool with upgrades?
Take me for example. My internet is 20mb down, 1.5mb up. That's pretty good for Western countries. I currently have around 300gb of photos taken in the last 10 years. That'll take months to upload. But if you made it client based you could do conversion & classification locally. Then uploaded the best into a pinterest style gallery for your website (with social features).
Then offer backups, custom galleries etc as professional features ($5/month for low-res jpeg backups, $20/month for 500gb RAWs). Maybe you could have found a niche with semi-pro photographers who're fed up with flickr? Or families who want to share photos with relatives without the risk of Facebook/Google using them in adverts?