This isn't a particularly constructive comment, it's just something I've wanted to say for a while but not really had a chance.<p>I'm not a regular user of Batch, but Dailybooth is one of my favorite/most visited websites. I can't help but feel they don't really want it anymore, like they're just supporting it because they have to. I don't think there have been any updates to the code for about a year, 20% of the live-feed is spam and it goes through periods of being completely unavailable, the home feeds/notifications not updating and seems to have random 5xx server errors constantly. It still seems to have a reasonably active community but it's been mostly abandoned. I'm not sure if it's because they couldn't monetize it effectively, they don't have time/resources to maintain it constantly, or something else, with this (presumably talent) acquisition I wouldn't be surprised if it's been shut down within a few months.
I'm curious about these acquisitions. If DailyBooth raised $7M then how is an acqui-hire approached?<p>Is there contention with the investors or at this point is the business a lost cause anyway? Or do the two companies share investors and it works out as "shuffling" talent?
I originally tried Batch but felt the overhead it added to sharing photos over just doing it on Facebook/Path etc just wasn't worth it. Similar to why I don't really use Instagram, although I'd be more likely to use Instagram.