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Given that mobile photo sharing has been done to death, I'd be interested to hear what you think makes Pixit a significantly better solution than all the other apps out there for some usecase.

(Not trying to sound confrontational--it's just not a space that I thought had much more innovation left in it, so I'm curious to hear what you've come up with.)

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That's a fair question. It could be that this is a solved problem by some other system/app, but I couldn't easily find one while my problem persisted... so I did what every over-active nerd does: I just built my own solution.

I think Pixit is different because it is solely for quick photo sharing between friends in 3 steps. Simple, quick, and effective. However, I'm not sure how much mass appeal it would have. It works for my usecase, but increasingly I find that I am an outlier when it comes to consumery stuff.

I don't get it?

"I thought up an app that would make it extremely easy to send many pictures to a group of friends in one go."

Isn't that email?

yes, it is. however, accomplishing this with email on iphone is extremely tedious (many steps) and error-prone.

Not in my experience, camera roll, select photos, share, email, auto-complete friends email address's, send

This isn't in any way tedious or error prone.

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