Show HN: Introducing CircleUp - group photo sharing made simple

circleupapp.com

22 points·tonyrhauber··10 comments

I like the name a lot. However the site doesn't really tell me much about the app.

Looking at the video I assume it's an app to collaborate and/or share photos (as a story?) with friends. And that everyone needs the app installed. Correct?

What's your differentiator? I mean for competitors you have instagram, facebook, google+, drop box, imgur, photobucket, and flickr to name a few. This is a space with a lot of noise, so I think you really need something special if you're going to enter it.

DivvyShot, acquired by Facebook, had a very similar product.

I'm starting to think this is a pretty good strategy - recreate apps that have been recently acquired and sell them to a competitor of the original acquirer.

Lost me at sign up with Facebook as your only option

You're probably not in their target market. For a social photo sharing app, launching with just Facebook auth isn't unreasonable.

What about users who would use this as an alternative to Facebook ?

I would bet that is a relatively small portion of their addressable market. Sure, they will eventually want to support those users, but for an initial launch, it is not worth spending time building an authentication system when they can just use Facebook to reach the majority of their users.

Huh? They have to build an authentication system for Facebook. What's the difference? It's just a matter of adding a username, and password rather then facebook stuff?

Facebook provides a lot of public info (profile pic, first name and last name) that would otherwise be really annoying for the user to type in. Of course, to each his/her own.

Where are the photos stored?

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