@nikitakorotaev Thanks! We believe the future is with browser-based applications, but that we can do more to leverage the desktop apps to increase performance when you're accessing Picturelife on a machine that's running our app (it could be used as a proxy, for instance, to the local images). Long term vision is to be a smart home for your photos. That means continuously innovating to be the best possible place to store your photos, and the best possible way to view and share them. Right now, that means using your mobile device more as a place to process and organize your photos, and it means doing a great job of resurfacing great photos for you at the right time. Lastly, it means making Picturelife awesome for families and close friends. Traditional social networks and emails are well used for sharing photos, but incredibly flawed. We think we are fixing this, and will continue to release around the idea of family being the most important unit when it comes to you photos.

@jtriest Thanks for the question. Not just trying to be salesy here, but I do think best answer is you should "just try it" to see for yourself. I'll still give it a go though :) Dropbox is an awesome hard-drive in the cloud we use to share Excel files and design assets internally, but doesn't do much more for us. To them, a photo file is basically the same as a PowerPoint, except in Carousel where they try and order them by date. Picturelife is built for photos and videos. We've done the hard work to understand how photos should be processed and auto-organized. Our privacy controls make sense for sharing privately, but not giving up control. Metadata you've collected in iPhoto, Lightroom, or Aperture lives on in Picturelife. And our deep search makes it so you can find a photo instantly based on more than just a spinning wheel (you can search by person, place, season, etc). What more, we offer syncing from Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, Tumblr and more (Dropbox too), so all your photos really can be in one place, not just the ones you have (and for them, need to keep) on your hard-drive.

@msg we're also pumped that Picturelife hides your n00ds, Michael. But seriously, thanks for all your support!

@anandrajaram thanks! Just save your whiteboard shots as PNGs and it will "just work" ;)

@kidbombay we have an importer for Dropbox (we actually use their Webhooks API and were one of their launch partners with it https://www.dropbox.com/develope... )

@innonate So then am I have 2 copies of my photos? In dropbox and PictureLife?

@kidbombay well, if you still wanted photos to be uploaded to Dropbox you would. Most folks don't have a need for photos to be in Dropbox after using Picturelife (as we do the uploading from the device too).

@taykcrane Thanks! So the new app includes a bunch of stuff. For existing users: 1. Incredible new Maps view on mobile. So cool to see what you've shot right where you are. 2. View all your photos with Faces in them. We do face detection right on the device. 3. Favorites! Believe it or not but this is my favorite. Those 10 photos I always search for are right at my finger tips. 4. "Open in..." functionality – finally :) 5. Screenshots get their own view, and don't clutter nice photos. 6. And perhaps the most significant – huge for us and new customers (but not a big deal for our existing customers) – is that Picturelife "just works" now right after download. You never have to create an account if you don't want the cloud storage option. Out of the box it's just a better camera roll/Photos.app. Beyond that, it's faster, has a really neat "quick action" system, and more I'm sure I'm forgetting!

@innonate Great stuff. Curious why you're releasing all these features at once as opposed to continuously? If you were iOS only I'd understand but given you have a web app, I'm surprised you waited to release all of this together. Curious what the decision-making process was behind this. Love the Favorites idea. Is this automated, or does the user have to indicate which photos are favorites? Hoping the former. Any features that allow me to more easily find past photos I welcome.

@taykcrane releasing new iOS and new plans was mostly a coincidence. Favorites are 100% user-driven... like choosing what photos go in your wallet. We use automated "best photos" picking in many other areas though, like the homescreen of the web app, the daily Memories emails, etc.

@davemorin Thanks Dave! Really appreciate the kind words. We ditched the icon because while we loved the ingenious origins of the first design (@charlesforman's concept to use real-life color samples of the photo for the blank canvas before an image loads), it still represented the "unloaded" and therefore broken state of the app, and we thought it was the wrong thing to put forward. Meanwhile, we loved the play of the new icon on life (a flower) and photography (the lens) as the brightness to represent the happiness our photos bring. I'm probably doing a disservice to the work that our Creative Director Phil Machalski did, but that's more or less it!

@innonate Also, Picturelife deserves to win ProductHunt today @rrhoover :)

@davemorin don't look at me, Dave! I lost control long ago. :P

@innonate congrats on the new launch!

@joshelman Thanks Josh!

@innonate thanks for sharing, Nate! That doesn't include traffic from the Product Hunt email though, does it? I checked our metrics and with email combined, we've driven 3,015 visits via this post so far. P.S. it's not just me -- I've had a lot of help, something I need to write about soon.

@mulligan aww man, that got a good laugh here in the office! He DOES love photos! Hooray good taste + stock photo diving. Thanks for the kind words!

@mark__a glad you like it. We've been handing out API access on a limited basis. Email me nate@picturelife.com with your account's email address and I'll get you hooked up.