http://thingsand.me/
And an example blog: http://thingsand.me/jori
I tried to keep the platform as simple as possible and focus on the images instead of making yet another blogging platform. Time will tell for what people are going to use it. I hope to add API soon (iPhone uploader would be awesome to blog daily activities).
http://thingsand.me/media/images/image_228.html
Your uploader is blindly trusting the file extension for an image being uploaded. It's possible to upload valid images that contain HTML or other content within them.
Deletions are also done via a GET request, which makes them vulnerable to a CSRF attack. An attacker can figure out the URL for a deletion based on the content of the post: once they've done that, all they have to do is trick the user into visiting a site controlled by the attacker.
Looks very nice and I can see a few ideas to monetize this.
Is the directory "empty" because it's a new service or is there a limit to the number you're displaying?
What about image copyright? I can easily imagine users just using images they found on the internet as opposed to shots they've taken.
API would be cool, yes. Keep it simple please! I was thinking a Posterous-like email blogging approach would be useful.
Also, consider adding basic online image editing tools. Things like cropping, lightening/darkening, saturation, etc. Nothing too fancy but enough to get people to use this on the go, like when on holiday.
Image copyright is tricky but I don't change the images and there's links to original sources so it should be about ok. The service is hosted inside EU and I don't take credit for outside images (see footer). This is also the reason there won't be any editing features for the time being.
If you have some cool ideas for monetizing I'm all ears :)
What's a big negative to me is the design of my feed. It's actually what's preventing me from sharing this with my friends who are fellow designes/creatives. Specifically too much real estate for the sort option on the right, dropshadows are little bit distracting, and do you need "Thing from?" Just by having the URL, I can tell that's the source.
I think what makes more sense is if the tags run across the top horizontally (above the images), and there is an add button. The reason is so that the grid remains completely full width across your container and so more results are per row.
This would also help put the name of the person above the image results instead of to the right.
I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 on a Macbook and every page appears to be a pixel or a few pixels wider than the window meaning there is an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar. It doesn't look very good.
The login could do with SSL protection.
If you don't have cookies enabled, trying to log in complains about a CSRF error. Might be worth detecting cookies being disabled and putting up a note on the login page to enable them. I admit this would only affect a tiny number of people, but still worth it imo.
And terms and conditions which deal with your rights and your users rights, and which explicitly deal with copyrighted data concerns.
Keeping it (or having an option to style it) VERY bare bones like that would be awesome.
Also, think about what you can do on your site that would be impossible on tumblr. For example I think they have a limit of something like 15 posts per page. Beat them in the images-only game.
Plans for custom domains?
You nailed it: limiting posts would be interesting approach but for now I just want people to get started. Have to think about it more.
Not sure about custom domain as the platform doesn't allow much customization. But lets see after it gains little traction. Until then I'll go with about.me approach.
Then again, I'm not a big fan of facebook.
BTW a small but prominent typo: "beatiful" on the front page.
Cheers and good luck with the project, you're on a great track
There's a reason why posts at Things are limited to only images with max 160 chars of text and link to source :)
Keep working on it and good luck!