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Fnalsk··on Show HN: A photo sharing app that isn't trying to be a TikTok clone
That's also very welcome, it's more or less a platform for any sort of imagery
Fnalsk··on Show HN: A photo sharing app that isn't trying to be a TikTok clone
Also I'm pretty sure you can swipe from the left edge of the screen to exit the view - definitely a lot easier than tapping the back button on a large screen like iPad.
Fnalsk··on Show HN: A photo sharing app that isn't trying to be a TikTok clone
Freemium, with non-targetted ads (only if we have to).

Tap on the image within the comments view, and use the three dots icon to the lower right of the overlay that appears.

Web version is coming. So many people have requested this - we're definitely aware that it's a big deal.

Fnalsk··on Show HN: A photo sharing app that isn't trying to be a TikTok clone
Working on it!
Fnalsk··on Show HN: A photo sharing app that isn't trying to be a TikTok clone
Thanks for the feedback! we're definitely still early so performance and UX are being worked on.
Fnalsk··on Show HN: A photo sharing app that isn't trying to be a TikTok clone
First, we plan to monetize on a freemium model. This means we don't have an incentive to sell your data to advertisers.

Second, we don't plan to add video. This is a platform just for photos, and for someone who wants something like that it's a good thing.

We also run on iPad, and when we get desktop going it won't be an intentionally broken experience to force you to use the app.

And we actually listen to our users. There's a chat room on the app "Pidgeon Nest" where people have asked for certain features and we've gone and added them. We've also done the same when users have reached out over email.

Fnalsk··on Show HN: A photo sharing app that isn't trying to be a TikTok clone
not yet, that's something we'll need to add
Fnalsk··on Show HN: A photo sharing app that isn't trying to be a TikTok clone
The point is that they work...for the company. In most of these cases the business model of the company is ads, which means they want to get as much time on the app as possible, regardless of what that means for the user's mental health or their overall enjoyment. This isn't necessarily what's best for the user.
Fnalsk··on Show HN: A photo sharing app that isn't trying to be a TikTok clone
And because this community in particular is probably interested in this, the app is made with Flutter. Highly recommend for anyone that hasn't yet tried it.
Fnalsk··on Show HN: An Instagram Alternative
Right now there is no monetization. We want to get a large userbase and good retention before we even think about that.

Longer term, we want to do freemium, like Discord does.

Fnalsk··on Show HN: An Instagram Alternative
Hey, Sorry about that, our qa process must not be thorough enough.

May I ask what android version you're using? And if you send us an email at hello@pidgeon.app and tell us the email you used to sign up we can probably fix this manually.

Fnalsk··on Lensii: Sort your photos by how good they look
I was looking through some of my old travel photos and I literally had 1000+ per trip. I’d have loved to share them or pick some out for wallpapers or whatever, but I realized I don’t want to sit here and look through that many…

So I started working on something that would pick out all the good ones for me.

Would you guys find this useful?