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TripUp — End-to-end encrypted photo sharing
A privacy-focused, full resolution photo sharing app for groups. Consolidates your shared and personal albums into one, enabling you to collaborate on an album together whilst still being personalised. Cloud-synced and end-to-end encrypted for total privacy.
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@peteliev Thanks Yevhenii! Please do, and feel free to provide any feedback, positive or negative, that you might have 😊
This is quite interesting. Even photos stored in your account on Google Photos technically have publicly accessible URLs, but with enough entropy that they couldn't be guessed. History says that the mainstream user doesn't care much about privacy but I'm definitely interested to see where this goes.
@m_stole I agree with you, but I do sense that people are slowly becoming more conscious about privacy. In any case, I tried to create an app that does more than just featuring privacy – a common issue with similar apps I think, which tend to focus almost solely on privacy, providing no other value. Hopefully TripUp has value even for users who don't care; the privacy protections become just a free add-on to them. But as TripUp is a social app, if they choose to introduce the app to the others, it'll benefit them and their social circle which benefits more people in the long term 🙂
@bizbuilder Thanks! It's definitely a different approach – I wanted to capture the spirit of what memories are like in real life, which are usually an amalgamation of personal and shared experiences. In that context its quite intuitive IMO. But it is different to the typical notion of siloed albums. Do give it a go and let me know what you think 🙂
this is very interesting! our team is thinking on similar lines and i would love to pick your brain if you have the time @vin047! :)
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Vinoth, founder of TripUp.
The most obvious question is, why yet another photo sharing app?
Because it's 2020 and we deserve better.
Most people use WhatsApp/Instant Messaging group chats to share photos. Photos shared this way are compressed, missing metadata, ordered incorrectly and you end up with multiple copies of some photos. Few use Apple's and Google's solutions and they both have their limitations anyway – both degrade photo quality, iCloud isn't cross-platform and Google Photos are a bad choice for users who care about privacy.
So I created TripUp to address these flaws. With TripUp:
• Photos are shared and stored at full resolution.
• You can save and share photos to other apps at full resolution and with all metadata intact.
• Photos received by others are chronologically sorted with your photos.
• Duplicate photos aren't shared again.
• Works offline – import/export/view/share/un-share/star/un-star photos without an internet connection. App will sync once online again.
• Your shared albums can be synced across all your devices.
• End-to-end encrypted with PGP – no personal data leaves your device unencrypted.
It's currently iOS only but an Android app is planned and the platform is designed to be cross-platform. It's essentially Google Photos meets iCloud Photos meets WhatsApp.
Hope you all find this useful and thank you for your time. I'm here if you have any questions! 😄✌️
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