Hi all, about a month ago my wife was complaining about how annoying all of the photo sharing services were. Either the UI was overly complicated or it would ask people to register for the service before they could view the photos, etc.<p>So I decided to build something dead-simple that she could use. There are no frills. You just create an album and email it around. The link goes directly to the photos.<p>It's not fancy at all (very utilitarian), but she appreciates it, so I thought I'd launch it as a full service and share it with people.<p>It's called SimpleNeat http://www.simpleneat.com<p>If people try it out feedback would be appreciated.
Simple, useful, great UI and best of all no account required.<p>Awesome job.<p>Only question is regarding the switch between view-only and collaborative. When I choose to allow friends to contribute to the album, the provided link doesn't change.<p>I assume you have a view-only link and an edit link that is passed a var to allow people to modify it. How does this work in your application?
Looks good. Only critique I would have:<p>You say no registration required but next the create album button are sign in and register buttons. I'm sure there would be some users who think they need to register/sign in before clicking the create album button.<p>I also don't see on the home page what I would get if I did register (even though it's not required).
One minor issue is that you don't escape the user-input provided when people submit titles to their image.<p><pre><code> * Create an album.
* Upload N images.
* On the result page click the "Edit" image link to get a form where you can set a title for that specific image.
* Enter "[script] .. alert(3) .. [script]".
* Marvel as the alert-box fires off when the image is re-viewed.
</code></pre>
Otherwise good job.<p>(And you do escape input for the album title. So this looks like an oversight.)
I love this! Bit of feedback: if I were to use this to share photos taken for a client, I would love a way for my clients to be able to download all the photos in one go.
It's very nice. I'll consider using it and watch as it hopefully evolves.<p>Just one critique. It looks a little too... neat (like it hasn't been lived in). The images on the home page that are so integral to the look, come across as stock photo'ish (even though I'm guessing they're not). It might just be that the three home photos look like they're from the same family trip.<p>Also an aside - and I hate this part - get yourself a privacy / terms / dmca / takedown request section as soon as reasonably possible. If you plan to let the public have at this, you're going to get all sorts of terrible shit uploaded sooner than later. You can probably mostly clone Imgur on this.
The interface is better - but otherwise, how is this superior to imgur (<a href="http://www.imgur.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.imgur.com</a>)? Imgur has obviously already scaled.
The layout for "Allow others to add photos to this album?" option doesn't seem very natural. Personally, I first tried to click Yes to toggle it on/off took me about 10s or so to see that it actually was 1 yes and 1 no button, naturally I thought it was 2 different settings.<p>But yeah might just be because I'm so used to iOS but who knows.<p>When I try to get a full-size version of my picture after uploading it I get an error message:<p>"We're sorry, but something went wrong.<p>If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.
This looks great! I love that there is no account required.<p>However, since I can use it without an account, why would I register? You may want to add some motivational copy to the registration page to tell me.<p>Also, these two statements from the "Free" section don't seem to match:
* Original, full-size photos are stored for one month.
* Full-sized photos can be downloaded for $0.99/album after one month.<p>Maybe the second one should be "for up to one month"?
Very nice :)<p>I made a very simple photo hosting service almost a year ago <a href="http://img42.com" rel="nofollow">http://img42.com</a> (it leaned more towards temporary hosting though).
Nice work ... what about privacy tough?
If I am not mistaken, the album id is 6 chars long with the combination of lower and uppercase a-z and digits, can be brute forced...
Great iniative, Just for thought: the individual photo on the grid could have some highlighting option so users can 'pin' desired photos to viewers
Have you tried our app? <a href="http://Eversnapapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://Eversnapapp.com</a><p>Well done on your site. It's simple enough.<p>The difficulty in this space is that you have to be on as many platforms as possible. By definition, most events have users with multiple platforms. Android, IOS, etc...<p>We allow users to contribute to an album via Hashtag, emailing photos to a custom email address, and native mobile apps on android and IOS. This tends to be very difficult and even harder if you try to use trigger.io or sensatouch or a similar such system. Building native is hard.<p>Every month we see 2 to 3 new startups in this space.<p>Cheers.