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Re:Ask HN: Best Online Photo Storage Website? on Monday November 22, 2010 @11:29PM (#1932508)
You might want to try my site http://www.vivapixel.com

It's safe, fast and easy to use.

Try it and let me know what you like/dislike.

thanks

dh

Re:Will single founders please stand up? on Monday January 11, 2010 @11:35PM (#1046856)
I'm a single founder - my site/business is http://www.vivapixel.com
Re:Ask HN: What are your goals for your startups in 2010? on Friday December 25, 2009 @12:41PM (#1015126)
Add 1000+ new members, find contributors/partners, make site the best it can be ! oh and make a couple of bucks too !
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup (vivapixel.com) part 2 on Monday October 19, 2009 @10:22PM (#891598)
Here's a clickable link http://www.vivapixel.com

Ask HN: Review my startup (vivapixel.com) part 2

Posted by dhpmx on Monday October 19, 2009 @10:07PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey folks, after reading this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=890382 I thought that I would ask you to review my site again. Last time i asked was quite a while ago and since then there have been several improvements and enhancements to the site.Key changes:-Better UI design/color/layout-Added photo bookmarking-Many other changes (low level stuff to make the site faster and safer)I look...

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Re:Ask HN: What website project are you working on? on Thursday July 23, 2009 @11:46PM (#720920)
http://www.vivapixel.com - Photo and video hosting/sharing site.

Currently working on simple posting to tumblr and posterous

Re:Y Combinator’s Picurio Crowdsources Photo Sharing on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @11:09PM (#717287)
I too did not like Flickr/Picasa/Facebook so I built my own (vivapixel.com) with simplicity as my main focus. Albums can be shared allowing everyone I know to upload with a simple password (no registration hassles) or they can also email their photos with a special email address. So if I go to a get-together with friends and family I'll create an album on my iPhone and give everyone a simple email address to remember and photos flow in over time.

So 1 album will have ALL the photos from that day/event in 1 place...

PS: The email to album is "mom approved" btw, since almost everyone knows how to email photos.

Re:Ask HN: Help testing our email uploader on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @10:27PM (#717232)
Good point, I really didn't want to use this as a way of harvesting email addresses, but I can see how you and others could come to this conclusion. I honestly did not want to do this and would never "betray" the folks at hn with some sort of bait and switch move... So please disregard my request, I've already removed the email address and album. Thanks for the heads up !!

Ask HN: Help testing our email uploader

Posted by dhpmx on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @02:50PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey folks, we're looking for volunteers to test/break our email photo uploader. Please email a jpg photo to [email protected] and to see what you uploaded go to http://www.vivapixel.com/albums/hackernews We're asking anyone to upload from any email client, web client, iphone, blackberry etc... anything that supports email to send us a jpg.thanks for your helpPS: Keep the photos PG please !

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Browser Distribution for your site? on Sunday July 19, 2009 @07:59PM (#713609)
http://www.vivapixel.com - Photo and video hosting site.

For June 2009.

Firefox 82.4 %

MS Internet Explorer 12.4 %

Safari 3.7 %

Mozilla 0.5 %

Opera 0.3 %

Ask HN: Need some advice

Posted by dhpmx on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @10:14AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I Recently released my photo and video sharing site vivapixel.com into the wild and so far things are going ok. Traffic has been growing thanks to folks posting stuff on reddit,stumbleupon,digg etc. I've had a few new members signup but not that many folks are using the site ? I've contacted some folks to get some feedback on useability, speed etc. and it's all thumbs up !So I guess I have a...

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup (vivapixel.com) on Monday March 09, 2009 @11:30PM (#509468)
I made some changes, let me know what you think. thanks
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup (vivapixel.com) on Monday March 09, 2009 @12:38PM (#508630)
Thanks for the comments, spend so much time on the code that we sometimes forget the look and feel (as well as punctuation)
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup (vivapixel.com) on Monday March 09, 2009 @12:18PM (#508601)
http://www.vivapixel.com/contact
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup (vivapixel.com) on Monday March 09, 2009 @12:09PM (#508589)
Working on the transfer function now, hope to be done ASAP.

Facebook connect, hmmm will look into this...

thanks for the comments

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup (vivapixel.com) on Monday March 09, 2009 @12:06PM (#508584)
Flickr is a good service, don't get me wrong, but I'm not a big fan for big brother or someone trying to stuff ads down my throat all the time (just my 2cents)

Facebook, don't keep the originals, only the cropped versions of the photos... also what about the millions of folks who don't have a facebook account ?

Frontpage button: Sorry. fixed it !

I never claimed my site to be "killer", it's new and will get better over time... It's by having users who use the site and want a better experience that the site will evolve.

What would make the site "killer" in your opinion ?

thanks for the comments.

Ask HN: Review my startup (vivapixel.com)

Posted by dhpmx on Monday March 09, 2009 @11:42AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I read HN every day and would love feedback from the community on vivapixel.com. Vivapixel is a new photo sharing site that provides users a safe and fast place to upload, edit and share photos. We have been working on the service for about 3 months and we're looking for feedback/comments/ideas.Some of the features: -Albums can be public or private. -Albums can be shared (allow friend/family to...

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @03:43PM (#378031)
Good suggestions... thanks
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @03:42PM (#378027)
Work in progress... need translators !
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @03:41PM (#378025)
FYI Flickr has started using ads sporadically.. Did you also know that according to their terms of service, you give them "world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive license(s)" to whatever you upload on their servers...

I think the whole "social networking" part is nice but it's turn into a mess where you're constantly fending of spam and lame comments from complete idiots...

I'm workiong on tags, searching, favorites etc. not sure about comments...

Also working on blackberry/iphone uploading etc.

I'm more interested in things people want, not just flash !

thanks

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @01:13PM (#377867)
It's a new site, so it's still very much in development. However that being said, I agree that I need to make the frontpage a little more inviting... Why would you use my site vs. flickr or picasa etc... 1. You keep 100% ownership of YOUR media, you don't have to sell you soul in exchange for a free service. That's why I created this site... those are my pictures and I refuse to give up my rights in exchange for a free service. 2. The other sites I tried are so clutered with "web 2.0" garbage that they are annoyingly slow or loaded with all kinds of ads or offensive material. 3. We try to make uploading and managing your videos and photos really easy... ie: mom approved

So try to find a photo/video hosting site that is easy to use, fast, not loaded with ads or not loaded with offensive material.... hmmm !

thanks for your input