This is a very nice app. It's worth downloading and trying just to see the job they've done with the interface. It has a super-polished, slick feel; the prompts and help messages are very casual and conversational; and it guides you through the process in a very nice way. Within moments I'd uploaded a pile of photos, tagged the people in them on FB, and had someone commenting on them.
The only thing I don't love is that the photos end up on batch.com. I guess they have to have a website somewhere, otherwise, what's the point? But I worry about storing my photos on yet another website. I remember when I created all kinds of albums on Sam Odio's startup, Divvyshot, including ones of the birth of my daughter, and garnered all kinds of memorable comments as a result.
Then one day, it was purchased by Facebook and poof, goodbye photo albums, goodbye comments from friends and family.
That said, the sheer convenience of this app might overcome my worries...
While it doesn't help you save your albums or comments, all of your photos are still stored on your camera roll, so you won't lose those if Batch wound up taking a path like Divvyshot (not to imply that that is the path we plan on taking, etc., etc.).
True, but the same applied to Divvyshot - I still had those photos on my hard drive. In any case, you guys have done a super job and I'm going to just trust you that you're not in for the short haul. ;)
I too am bothered by the photos "ending up" somewhere. What I'd prefer is that batch.com just cached my photos for a time, and after they fell out of the cache they'd have to get them again from me. In the future, serving data off your phone might not seem like such a crazy idea.
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This is a very nice app. It's worth downloading and trying just to see the job they've done with the interface. It has a super-polished, slick feel; the prompts and help messages are very casual and conversational; and it guides you through the process in a very nice way. Within moments I'd uploaded a pile of photos, tagged the people in them on FB, and had someone commenting on them.
The only thing I don't love is that the photos end up on batch.com. I guess they have to have a website somewhere, otherwise, what's the point? But I worry about storing my photos on yet another website. I remember when I created all kinds of albums on Sam Odio's startup, Divvyshot, including ones of the birth of my daughter, and garnered all kinds of memorable comments as a result.
Then one day, it was purchased by Facebook and poof, goodbye photo albums, goodbye comments from friends and family.
That said, the sheer convenience of this app might overcome my worries...
While it doesn't help you save your albums or comments, all of your photos are still stored on your camera roll, so you won't lose those if Batch wound up taking a path like Divvyshot (not to imply that that is the path we plan on taking, etc., etc.).
Disclaimer: I work for Batch/Dailybooth.
True, but the same applied to Divvyshot - I still had those photos on my hard drive. In any case, you guys have done a super job and I'm going to just trust you that you're not in for the short haul. ;)
I too am bothered by the photos "ending up" somewhere. What I'd prefer is that batch.com just cached my photos for a time, and after they fell out of the cache they'd have to get them again from me. In the future, serving data off your phone might not seem like such a crazy idea.