Comment by djbeadle | Hacker News Reader

Comment by djbeadle | Hacker News Reader

I'm working on a photo-sharing service for groups to replace shared Google Drive folders. Even if a Google Drive is publicly editable uploads count against the uploader's quota unless they select all, right click, change owner to the folder owner which is a bridge too far.

By default anyone can upload to a gallery but they are identified by hard-to-guess UUIDs. This makes passing galleries around SMS or any chat platform very easy but one thing I did not expect is groups forming long-lived persistent galleries. Once you have more than one or two of these they become hard to keep track of.

I am currently working on an app with optional accounts for end users to (1) keep track of multiple galleries (2) allow iPhone live photo uploading (no way to do that within Safari) and (3) allow iPhones to upload pictures with metadata which Apple strips from all Safari uploads.

Here's a demo gallery with uploading disabled:

https://shareable.photo/73f4b812-51bd-42de-99f6-c58f65b18ae1...

Ooo, this is really interesting. It sounds like it might scratch an itch I have.

I've wanted a way to say "Hey if you took photos while visiting our makerspace, would you share them back with us somehow?"

Because a visitor's eye is sure to catch things differently than folks who're always around. And many visitors are here during interesting events when there's lots of fun stuff to photograph. If we could get even a fraction of those photos back under a creative commons license, it'd be a great resource for next time we need to make brochures or give talks or whatever.

But I don't know how to make this happen, either from a tech side or from a social side. It needs to be as low-friction as possible, and I'd like to support both folks who shoot on their mobile phones, and those who tote around DSLRs and process when they get home.

I imagine I could hang a poster on the wall that says something like "TAKE A PICTURE OF THIS POSTER and check it out when you get home. Hey, yeah, would you share the photos you took? Go to some.website.example/i3detroit and follow the prompts, eh?", possibly with a QR code that does the typing for them, but I haven't found good software to run behind it.

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