Introducing Anypic: an open source clone of Instagram

Wonderful. So two people who work for Parse decide to post the same thing using two different links and both make this out to be something it's not?

I'm going to just say what I said in the other submission [1] here because I feel it deserves repeating if someone reads this one instead of the other.

Anypic: an example of what you can build with Parse.

This isn't an Instagram clone.

1) The site doesn't mention that you have to sign in with your Facebook account to even use it.

2) One of the big reasons Instagram was "cool" or "fun" was because of the photo transformations. These aren't there either.

It's a photo sharing app. I wouldn't compare it to Instagram and I certainly wouldn't declare it as a "clone" of it.

I agree with another user commenting that the cool part about this is the tutorial [2] available to show how to make it. Why not just emphasize that instead of making this out to be something it's not?

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4297283

[2] - https://parse.com/tutorials/anypic

Parse must have an infinite number of engineers inside an infinity-sized office. They pump out new features and great tutorials like this at a much faster rate than anyone else in the PaaS space (except for AWS perhaps :-). Thanks for this! Cheers.

Parse continues to impress with awesome tutorials. I wish all platform documentation was as well done! I'm not a Parse customer (yet) but tutorials like this are making me consider it if appropriate in upcoming projects.

Now that we've got the technical part nailed, we just need a five minute way to get 30 million users. I know a lot of people who would pay for that service...

If it just had been the open source clone of instagram which I could host somewhere of my own to really own the results. And get my friends to join this shared space as well, so we wouldn't be dependent on instagram as much.

Something like "diaspora-similarity" but with instagram features.

Or heck, I might just revert to email. :)

I don't understand...in the demo on the site, those pics don't seem to have any effects/filters that are near what instagram has?

Or use imagemagick filters and upload your photos anywhere?

Anyone got any more wheels they need reinventing today?