Hi everyone,<p>Thank you for all the congratulations. We're thrilled to be joining the Facebook team. Frankly it's still taking time for everything to sit in.<p>I'll admit that it's bittersweet. When you spend 18 months obsessing over your company it's hard to see it go. It ultimately came down to the decision that we could touch more people's lives at Facebook...and that's what we've been in this for all along.<p><shameless thread co-opt><p>Since this post is going to get a lot of eyeballs I want to take this chance to solicit any suggestions/feedback/complaints HNers have for Facebook Photos. I can't comment on exactly what we'll be doing at Facebook, but I can promise whatever you tell me will get in front of the "right people." :)<p>If you want you can email me directly: sam@divvyshot.com<p>----<p>Since their legal department might read this: I'm not yet a Facebook employee and I'm not speaking on behalf of Facebook, anything you tell me is going to be placed in the public domain, you waive all rights to ownership over any IP that Facebook ends up implementing, etc.<p></shameless>
Why the heck did they do that? I mean, congratulations to them, but they just released an amazing rewrite of their product that kicked Facebook Photo's ass. I wonder why they didn't go through with it. Sad...
Hopefully facebook will let them open source, just as Google did for EtherPad and Remail. It always feels regretful when a service gets bought up and shut down but I hope open sourcing becomes a common mitigating factor.
Congrats to the team! Also, thank you for featuring the reddit logo on your homepage. ;)<p>I think we can now conclusively prove that having a reddit logo on your homepage leads to a successful exit.
This is a real shame, because I just started using Divvyshot (first event: birth of my daughter on March 8) and I really, really liked it.<p>It filled a great niche. A year ago, a bunch of friends and family and I went on vacation, and we all talked about trying to set up some kind of photo sharing spot where we could see each other's photos, but it never happened. Divvyshot, though, fit that bill.<p>Facebook doesn't do that for me, so I've downloaded the photos and will be deleting this event. I realize that getting bought out is a positive thing for the founders, but it can be a negative thing for your users, and it certainly feels that way to me. Bit of a letdown.<p>All that aside: great product, and best of luck to you guys in the future.
Related Valley drama:<p>"I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air" <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1160643" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1160643</a><p>Starring Divvyshot founder Sam Odio, Former TechCrunch Intern Daniel Brusilovsky, and Jason Calacanis.<p>Looks like Sam made out OK.
Congratulations! And for the record, photo sharing can do good in the world. Just think of people collaborating on a disaster with photos, helping to know the extent of the disaster and the help that is needed. Of course, they would need to take photos intermittently so they might actually help, but I think photo sharing is definitely something that can improve the world around us!
Wow, congratulations.<p>If you ever doubted your business, you can feel affirmed now. Being bought out by the largest social networking site with a sizable portion of their site dedicated to photos... well, you obviously did it right.<p>Get out there and do something else right, now :D
Omg, yet another YC startup has been killed^H^H^H^H^Hacquired ? Oh well, hope the team has been offered something little bit more material, beside "the resources and freedom to build cool stuff". :-)