Hi YC friends—<p>We’re Eric and Eric (or @shelkie and @karj) and we built Pixaver. It’s an app you’ll hopefully install—but never need to use.<p>Last summer, Google uncoupled Photos from Drive. When they did, I got a little antsy. I didn’t like the idea of all my photos being in one basket. (Admittedly, they already were, but this change broke any illusion of redundancy.)<p>So, I went looking for a backup solution, but they all involved too much admin. This led me to build something for my own use—and (of course) we figured there might be a product in there.<p>Pixaver (pic + saver, get it?) is so easy to use, anyone can put it to work.<p>You create an account, link it to your Google account, and you’re done. It does an initial backup of up all items, then automatically maintains an external backup of your Google Photos library as new items are added.<p>It doesn’t replace Google Photos in any way. It’s just added peace-of-mind. Let’s say you accidentally delete a bunch of images on Google Photos. Or, you lost access to your Google account. In either of those situations, Pixaver would offer a way to recover your images.<p>We soft-launched a few months ago. Then we applied to the Google Photos Partner Program (in part for more API calls). That has now been approved and we’re ready to accommodate more users.<p>If you have feedback, questions, or criticism, we’d love to hear it. :-)