Hey Guys,
I'm thinking about building a private photo storage & sharing service. The concept is very simple: store your photos on the cloud and share privately with the people you know.<p>Photos could be shared by email or directly with users (Unshare anytime. Shared by email is a link which opens up the page).<p>There's also a concept of 'Groups', i.e., a picture can be shared with both "Family" and "Co-workers" groups.<p>Through the app, photos could be pushed to Instagram, etc. so that you always retain original in one spot.<p>What do you guys think of the idea? We have already built a platform that we could use to finish this app/service in less than a month.<p>Thank you.
One thing that comes to mind is G+ pictures: it has the sharing functionalities you are planning to have, and it has a lot of more features in term of picture processing.<p>How do you compete? I can see a few things (maybe simpler / no signup process required, no link to social networks, better sharing with third party services), but you should make a good case on why users would like to use your service rather than going to Google.
have a look at www.sharypic.com/personal (event oriented, but private by default, no signup required to view/contribute, integrated to various platform to easily import/export photo, access to high-quality photos...)