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PicsEngine - beautiful new Cappuccino app for storing and sharing photos

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The site looks very nice, and it's an impressive effort by a one-man shop. I hope he can get to a break-even point on his Heroku and AWS bills soon (if he's not there already).

This seems like a hard space in which to compete. Flickr, SmugMug, MobileMe, and Picasa are all well known and accepted. picsengine doesn't have to offer more features than those services, but it does have to offer something different. I like having my desktop photo app serve as my master repository and having my online gallery reflect a subset of my whole collection. I'm sure there are others who would like to manage everything "in the cloud," though.

Here's wishing the developer the best of luck.

(It also looks like Heroku is unable to launch the demo site right now.)

The demo site is back online. Sorry.

I like the action of the site. Looks very interesting.

FYI: When I'm on my pokey DSL I notice something weird in playing your demo video: when my DSL can't feed data into your video player fast enough, the player jumps me back to the start of the video (rather than pausing and signaling that it's buffering).

There are many ways to differentiate from the big sites, going more niche or less niche than they are. If picsengine hasn't discovered its big differentiator yet, it will after interacting with users for a while.

The copy on the Pricing[0] page is Not Good. For example, under the heading "Can I leave PicsEngine?" is the answer that "You can leave PicsEngine at any time. If you stop paying, your account will be disabled and removed."

Great, but can I take my data with me? Including albums and other metadata? And is it easy to do?

[0]: http://www.picsengine.com/pricing

Right. You're right. For now, there is nothing implemented in the case someone leave. Hey, PicsEngine just launched right :) But you're right and that's something I need to plan.

Very nice - My wife is the graphic designer for a nonprofit that does significant fieldwork, and just spent the weekend lamenting the shortcomings of Flickr and photo database management software in general.

Do tell! What were the biggest shortcomings from her point of view?

Michaël, PicsEngine looks AND feel awesome! Have you used any additional libraries like CappuccinoResource?

Did you ever consider using other tools for making fancy UI, like the UKI javascript library (http://ukijs.org/)? I have site on heroku, in Norwegian, with handcrafted gradients and sidebars, wanting to switch to something more robust.

Hey. Not I didn't used CappuccinoResource. I considered every tools, but I think Cappuccino is simply the best for this kind of app right now. Thank you.

Again, I think this is a great new photo sharing site, one of the best one's I've seen.

Tell me, this site is made in Cappuccino, so I'm curious to know how was your experience with developing in Objective J and Cappuccino? Did you use 280atlas for this project?

Keep it up.

No I only used Cappuccino.

This is a bit misleading. The site is not done in Cappuccino, only the actual picsengine app is in Cappuccino. The actual site is HTML/CSS/jQuery.

I think generally people know that cappuccino is for building applications, not websites. And there really wasn't much misleading as the discussion was around the app itself.

Cool. BTW just a little spelling mistake from the Pricing page: "It’s almost impossible to lost them."

The CSS/Javascript files give a "Heroku Error" here.

Heroku seems down.

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