The app filled a niche that no one really needed. It was well designed and worked well, the winners in the photos space are providing more than a sharing mechanism though. They are either attaching it to the rest of your social media (Facebook) or providing new ways to take pictures (Instagram) which even there has beat hipstamatic because they have built social around that and developed their own network culture.
It also looks like a considerable number of people on HN— myself included— had never heard of it. I mean, it appears the link to their site had never been submitted before.
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The app filled a niche that no one really needed. It was well designed and worked well, the winners in the photos space are providing more than a sharing mechanism though. They are either attaching it to the rest of your social media (Facebook) or providing new ways to take pictures (Instagram) which even there has beat hipstamatic because they have built social around that and developed their own network culture.
It also looks like a considerable number of people on HN— myself included— had never heard of it. I mean, it appears the link to their site had never been submitted before.
There has definitely been an article submitted about batch before. Wouldn't really say they launched to a massive reception though.