The site looks very nice, and it's an impressive effort by a one-man shop. I hope he can get to a break-even point on his Heroku and AWS bills soon (if he's not there already).<p>This seems like a hard space in which to compete. Flickr, SmugMug, MobileMe, and Picasa are all well known and accepted. picsengine doesn't have to offer more features than those services, but it does have to offer something different. I like having my desktop photo app serve as my master repository and having my online gallery reflect a subset of my whole collection. I'm sure there are others who would like to manage everything "in the cloud," though.<p>Here's wishing the developer the best of luck.<p>(It also looks like Heroku is unable to launch the demo site right now.)
The copy on the Pricing[0] page is Not Good. For example, under the heading "Can I leave PicsEngine?" is the answer that "You can leave PicsEngine at any time. If you stop paying, your account will be disabled and removed."<p>Great, but can I take my data with me? Including albums and other metadata? And is it easy to do?<p>[0]: <a href="http://www.picsengine.com/pricing" rel="nofollow">http://www.picsengine.com/pricing</a>
Very nice - My wife is the graphic designer for a nonprofit that does significant fieldwork, and just spent the weekend lamenting the shortcomings of Flickr and photo database management software in general.
Michaël, PicsEngine looks AND feel awesome! Have you used any additional libraries like CappuccinoResource?<p>Did you ever consider using other tools for making fancy UI, like the UKI javascript library (<a href="http://ukijs.org/" rel="nofollow">http://ukijs.org/</a>)? I have site on heroku, in Norwegian, with handcrafted gradients and sidebars, wanting to switch to something more robust.
Again, I think this is a great new photo sharing site, one of the best one's I've seen.<p>Tell me, this site is made in Cappuccino, so I'm curious to know how was your experience with developing in Objective J and Cappuccino? Did you use 280atlas for this project?<p>Keep it up.