Re:Show HN: Kraken.io – image optimization service
by radiospiel on Sunday August 11, 2013 @05:22PM
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Thanks for the reply. As someone being into photography I would like to have the functionality that kraken provides on my local machine; even saving 10% on my huge pile of digital pictures would help me a lot; given that my machines run exclusively on SSDs, where storage space still is quite expensive.
In saying that: if you would build a downloadable app which looks great and does what you are doing right now on your servers I would be willing to spend. On the other hand, I would not upload my pics to any service just to get them back smaller; it just takes too much time.
But I agree that your biz model probably does not target someone like me; good riddance to you!
People not wanting to run things locally are exactly why we decided to launch the Kraken service in the first place - just upload and forget, let someone else deal with the complexities and use their resources. We actually decided to go commercial in response to a ludicrous number of feedback emails we were getting asking for this. It got to the point where we decided to found a company and make it happen, as it just made sense. Moreover, it's really difficult working out a pricing strategy for a product such as an image optimization API, and expect to make amendments to our pricing strategy in response to feedback and other learnings.