picstead

After using few months my publishing -script-thingy couple of my photographer friend got interested of it and wanted to try it. They liked it and I started to think I'll make it a little better and easier to share with others.

At the end of February 2021 I had free weekend and I started to hack publishing-script to make it better and it started to look like SaaS-version and I decided to give it a try.

I'm a part-time photographer and I needed simple way to share my shots to my clients. I tried few some kind of similar web-apps but they doesn't fit for my use.

I'm also quite lazy and I always try to do my job efficiently and with fewer steps. I needed more automation for sharing / delivering my work to my clients, so I didn't need to manually upload photos to sharing service and send emails.

I hacked few scripts and made simple UI. And this is how it worked:
*After I edited my shots I saved them to my Dropbox with client's email as folder-name.

• Publishing-script (which runs on server) gets folder from dropbox.
• Publishing-script creates private web-page for client and sends url and PIN code to client.
• After two weeks publishing-script removes created page and images from server