Re:Picwing (YC S08) and the importance of print photos
by anigbrowl on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @10:21PM
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Props on your flexibility, and particularly on having the vision to service the other side of the digital divide. If it's not confidential, I wonder what proportion of your business is urban v rural?
While I was looking at your site I was thinking it was sad that people would upload photos for automated delivery to Grandma rather than (say) print them out at home or Walgreens and add a handwritten note...then it struck me that I take digital convenience for granted, living in SF.
We still think our frame is quite awesome, but it turns out that a lot of families still like getting physical prints in the mail and posting it up on their fridge and what not. We learned early on that there is a much bigger opportunity, huge market, and slower competitors in the prints business. Add on top of that a much lower investment requirement for a software business (even our printing and order fulfillment is done on the cloud), and it just made business sense for us to switch to an online printing service.