That sounds very promising. I think the most interesting question will be how to expand beyond the photo bubble towards a broader, creative audience like graphic designers, illustrators, filmmakers and more. I thought it‘s an interesting concept, but i personally thought that the naming of the platform was a bit too specific, targeted towards photo people only. The same fate that glass had, after the first impression, it was just another 500px with mediocre content. I think expanding to a broader user base if different creative practices could be very beneficial. But great to see that people are actually working on good alternative! Thanks for the effort Michael!
Thanks Ramon! I'm not 100% tied to Foto for the name, so we'll see how the audience develops. We definitely want to target a creative audience and I think the things we want to work on with metadata will be relevant for all sorts of creators.
Very insightful view of what's needed in an app for photographers. I saw Foto's tweets but I did not realize until this interview the depth and pertinence of what Michael Howard envisions for Foto.
It adresses the very issues I'm most concerned with: retain ownership, build a reliable and lasting image archive, escape algorithm hell, more articulate posts. Consider me interested!
Michael, this is very exciting. Honestly I think there are enough professional photographers out there looking for a comprehensive, reliable, industry accepted platform to organize their archives and display their work that you don't need to branch out to every category of media. Still taking investors?
Thanks Augusta! We are in the development phase right now and we have an equity crowdfunding campaign penciled in to start on March 1st. The campaign will be hosted at https://wefunder.com/ and anyone in the US can invest in Foto for a minimum of $100.
We are taking donations at https://fotoapp.co/beta to help with current development and anyone in the world can donate there to get on the Private Beta List.
Finding the audience for Foto is a little tricky. I've had photographers tell me they won't even try it if there isn't a ton of people on it. Then I have people wanting to test it immediately. I want to make Foto an image and data-centric platform that solves issues related specifically to images online. That's enough work for us to keep us busy for a long time. :)
That sounds very promising. I think the most interesting question will be how to expand beyond the photo bubble towards a broader, creative audience like graphic designers, illustrators, filmmakers and more. I thought it‘s an interesting concept, but i personally thought that the naming of the platform was a bit too specific, targeted towards photo people only. The same fate that glass had, after the first impression, it was just another 500px with mediocre content. I think expanding to a broader user base if different creative practices could be very beneficial. But great to see that people are actually working on good alternative! Thanks for the effort Michael!
Thanks Ramon! I'm not 100% tied to Foto for the name, so we'll see how the audience develops. We definitely want to target a creative audience and I think the things we want to work on with metadata will be relevant for all sorts of creators.
Appreciate your comment Michael! Good luck with the development and looking forward to try it!
Very insightful view of what's needed in an app for photographers. I saw Foto's tweets but I did not realize until this interview the depth and pertinence of what Michael Howard envisions for Foto.
It adresses the very issues I'm most concerned with: retain ownership, build a reliable and lasting image archive, escape algorithm hell, more articulate posts. Consider me interested!
Thanks Alain! Appreciate your interest in what we are working on. Lots more to come.
Great! Looking forward to it. Thanks.
Thanks 🙏 I haven’t heard of this app. Have you tried Glass.photo? I’m liking it
Hey Leanne! Our app isn't live yet. We are still in the development phase. We hope to launch in 2023.
Thank you so much for having me Kim! I appreciate your interest in Foto and I'm grateful for your support! Cheers to the future.
Michael, this is very exciting. Honestly I think there are enough professional photographers out there looking for a comprehensive, reliable, industry accepted platform to organize their archives and display their work that you don't need to branch out to every category of media. Still taking investors?
Thanks Augusta! We are in the development phase right now and we have an equity crowdfunding campaign penciled in to start on March 1st. The campaign will be hosted at https://wefunder.com/ and anyone in the US can invest in Foto for a minimum of $100.
We are taking donations at https://fotoapp.co/beta to help with current development and anyone in the world can donate there to get on the Private Beta List.
Finding the audience for Foto is a little tricky. I've had photographers tell me they won't even try it if there isn't a ton of people on it. Then I have people wanting to test it immediately. I want to make Foto an image and data-centric platform that solves issues related specifically to images online. That's enough work for us to keep us busy for a long time. :)