Photoprivy

Integrated with a reseller of SaaS to accept subscription payments on Photoprivy. This way, we don't have to worry about Taxes and remittance right now, allowing us to focus on more important things like gaining traction.

Due to the international privacy laws, access to register an account is limited to the United States. More countries will be added as we can address the privacy laws internationally.

The first design of the mobile app is launched and has all the functionality of the website.

I developed the mobile app in React-Native to make sure the app can be deployed for Android and iPhone as quickly as possible.

This first release does not include push notifications.

It was time to take the plunge and open the website to the public.

All remaining early adopters are sent an email that they can still use their username/email that they reserved.

Thanks to the fun of 2020, I'm able to start working on Photoprivy full time.

After a few months of part-time development, the first website prototype is finished and deployed. Access is limited to me, my wife, and my mother so we can put the prototype through its paces.

Accepting early access reservations for friends and family that are interested in my idea.

A few weeks before, I started looking for an alternative to Facebook to share my son's photos with family privately. I had a few criteria I was looking for: 1) had to be privacy-focused, 2) not sell user data, 3) transparent on the data they were collecting, and 3) had a business model that did not rely on ads.

I found lots of alternatives, but they all were lacking in one or two areas. In fact, most were not as private and secure as I would have liked, either exposing public links or using third-party services that were known for selling data when they did not have to.

After talking to a few friends, parents at the daycare, and random parents at the grocery store, I decided that this was a problem worth solving, and the idea of Photoprivy was born.