Comment by xwvvvvwx | Hacker News Reader

Comment by xwvvvvwx | Hacker News Reader

Bee is a photo sharing site that connects you with your favorite brands.You post photos to Bee and they're sent directly to the people who matter. You get nationwide exposure and photo credit as your shot is featured on everything from billboards to social media.
How it works:
1) Share photos directly
No more @-ing companies and hoping they see. With Bee, every photo is sent directly to our partner companies. Your photos, not your follower count, is what matters. Take your talent to the next level and get the nationwide exposure you deserve.
2) Bee yourself
Bee lets you connect with your brand judgement free. No more worrying about spamming your friends feeds. With Bee, you can post what you want, when you want. This means more fame for you with none of the downsides.
3) Bee famous

Bee is all about making you famous. We turn brands into your personal PR team. Companies agree to give you photo credit on everything from billboards to social media. You keep all the rights to your photos while the world’s biggest brands give you nationwide exposure.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bee-technologies-inc

I don't understand at all what they're trying to build. An easier way for people to let brands use their images for free?

AFAICT they want people to take photos for free and give them to advertisers to use. They expect their programmers to work for free too.

Do I detect a pattern there?

Soon they'll roll out a new tier, you pay them $10 per photo you take. New jobs will open up too, for the low price of $100/hr you can pay to work at a hot new start up.

hahahahha. There will surely never be jobs like that in the furture right ? right ? ...............

> An easier way for people to let brands use their images for free?

The hope is probably that they'll get freebies. Take a photo wearing this sweater, then keep it. That sort of thing. This confuses me though:

Your photos, not your follower count, is what matters.

The whole reason a brand is interested in you is because of your follower count, not because you're good looking (though I imagine that is also a requirement).

Oh, so they're paying their users in Eposure™. Fantastic, I am sure photographers will be chomping at the bit to get on this new and unique platform that will allow people to see their work. Who needs to bother with monetisation when you have so much great exposure?

Yea, the kind of photos that would actually be featured by a legitimate brand on a platform that would result in any kind of meaningful exposure take a lot of time and effort to make.

What do they expect to get? A bunch of cell phone pics and maybe a few discards from a few professional photographers who were curious?

The whole thing looks like severely out of touch wishful thinking.

A copy of Instagram’s glamour and appeal about 5 years too late.

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