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That's also very welcome, it's more or less a platform for any sort of imagery
Also I'm pretty sure you can swipe from the left edge of the screen to exit the view - definitely a lot easier than tapping the back button on a large screen like iPad.
Freemium, with non-targetted ads (only if we have to).

Tap on the image within the comments view, and use the three dots icon to the lower right of the overlay that appears.

Web version is coming. So many people have requested this - we're definitely aware that it's a big deal.

Working on it!
Thanks for the feedback! we're definitely still early so performance and UX are being worked on.
First, we plan to monetize on a freemium model. This means we don't have an incentive to sell your data to advertisers.

Second, we don't plan to add video. This is a platform just for photos, and for someone who wants something like that it's a good thing.

We also run on iPad, and when we get desktop going it won't be an intentionally broken experience to force you to use the app.

And we actually listen to our users. There's a chat room on the app "Pidgeon Nest" where people have asked for certain features and we've gone and added them. We've also done the same when users have reached out over email.

not yet, that's something we'll need to add
The point is that they work...for the company. In most of these cases the business model of the company is ads, which means they want to get as much time on the app as possible, regardless of what that means for the user's mental health or their overall enjoyment. This isn't necessarily what's best for the user.
And because this community in particular is probably interested in this, the app is made with Flutter. Highly recommend for anyone that hasn't yet tried it.

Show HN: A photo sharing app that isn't trying to be a TikTok clone

We launched Pidgeon a few weeks ago, and since then we've had a chance to fix a lot of bugs and upgrade the usability a significant amount.The app is made just for photo sharing. No videos, no NFTs, just pictures, comments, and chats. Each post is ranked like on reddit - a combination of the user upvote/downvotes and the amount of time passed since the post's creation.We're also trying to stay...

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Re:Show HN: An Instagram Alternative on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:43PM (#30153191)
Right now there is no monetization. We want to get a large userbase and good retention before we even think about that.

Longer term, we want to do freemium, like Discord does.

Re:Show HN: An Instagram Alternative on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:42PM (#30153175)
Hey, Sorry about that, our qa process must not be thorough enough.

May I ask what android version you're using? And if you send us an email at [email protected] and tell us the email you used to sign up we can probably fix this manually.

Show HN: An Instagram Alternative

We just launched the first version of Pidgeon. It’s meant to be a sort of “reddit for photos”, and we’re trying to fix a lot of the problems instagram has.Quite a lot of people these days hate instagram for one reason or another. Maybe you hate the amount of ads it has. Maybe you hate the algorithm. Maybe you hate the shop section that no one ever uses. Maybe you hate the data collection, or...

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Re:Lensii: Sort your photos by how good they look on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:07PM (#27764682)
I was looking through some of my old travel photos and I literally had 1000+ per trip. I’d have loved to share them or pick some out for wallpapers or whatever, but I realized I don’t want to sit here and look through that many…

So I started working on something that would pick out all the good ones for me.

Would you guys find this useful?