Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch

Re:Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’... by kevrone on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:26PM (#7460734)

Interesting idea. A couple of suggestions: 1) Don't do the auto countdown thing with the camera. Just let me take a picture. 2) My knee jerk reaction when I received a photo was to ping my friend for another one right away. In fact all my friends did this until we got fed up with each other. Maybe limit pings to once an hour or something. 3) Give comments more focus. If someone sends me a photo I want to interact with them about it. Maybe that's why I'm heading to ping them so quickly...

Otherwise I'm happy to see a novel approach to social networking.

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Re:Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’... by PaulJulius on Monday March 24, 2014 @06:27PM (#7462136)

Definitely agree on getting rid of the countdown feature. It's definitely bad as a first user experience; almost certain the first picture anyone takes will be bad and they may not see the "Slide down to retake" text.

Also, I like to be able to send text with the picture too, just to give a bit of context. I really imagine using this as a reverse Snapchat that let's me get pictures instead of sending them. Being able to give context to the picture is great. On a related note. I like being able to see comments on a picture when scrolling through the feed. Making the comment viewing section a separate screen in the app makes it less useful.

Also as a comparison to Snapchat. How long do the pictures stay around. Forever?

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Re:Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’... by sasajost on Monday March 24, 2014 @08:30PM (#7462872)

Agree, it can be a little tricky for 1st experience...but for the ones that stay, is a convenient feature.

I think the comment next to the pic would make it worse - pics are the easiest/the fastest way of consuming the content. This is why the News feed is now really light - you can scroll/check out new pics really fast, and I like that. If I want "heavier News feed", I go to Twitter/FB/...

Pic stays in the News feed for 24h, as far as I know.

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Re:Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’... by matevzpetek on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:43PM (#7460885)

1)if you tap on the picture while countdown you skip 3-2-1

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Re:Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’... by izacus on Monday March 24, 2014 @04:05PM (#7461030)

The autocountdown thing is still horrible, because it can take more than 3 seconds to focus image in some cases (especially on Android devices).

In like 50% of cases when tapping on ping notification I end up with either blurry image of my feed or a blurry image of something else.

Also I don't really see what kind of value that counter adds to anything.

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Re:Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’... by skralj on Monday March 24, 2014 @04:32PM (#7461232)

You can tap&hold on screen while countdown, when you release the screen it will immediately take a picture - so by holding the screen for more than 3 seconds you can overcome this. But there's still lots of room for improvement.

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Re:Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’... by jernejz on Monday March 24, 2014 @04:33PM (#7461243)

You can also "press-and-hold" on the picture. And when you lift the finger the photo is taken. Counter is pretty sweet when you get used to it, believe me :)

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