PicPlum — a new start sharing photos, which is designed to make conducting, printing and mailing the physical photos easier than before. Service, founded by Paul Stamatiou and Akshay Dodeja, aimed at parents who wish to send printed photos of their children for friends and family. However, in contrast to the photo printing locomotive, Shutterfly and Snapfish, the idea is not to be cheaper to print all your digital photos. With PicPlum we are talking about improving the overall experience of sending and receiving photos by mail.
PicPlum offers its users to select only your best photos, which are then printed using a chemical process, high quality and packed in attractive envelopes before sending. The end result is something more beautiful and more interesting than anything you will get from traditional typography.
Subscription service for printing photographs
This service is another key advantage, too – this is automated. Each month, a new batch of photos sent to you via the service, without any effort on your part.
Although there is a pay-as-you-go option for those who don't care for subscription services, monthly option a better deal. For $ 7 per month you can choose from 15 photo to one address. For another $ 7 you can select the second recipient. And if you want to add additional photos to a package, it's $ 0.50 each.
Current users, meanwhile, to pay $ 0.50 for photo plus shipping ($ 1.50 in the United States and the rates may vary for international orders).
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To be fair, this service is 5 times more expensive than large companies, such as Shutterfly, or Snapfish, who usually charge 9 cents per photo. Either of these companies can easily start something similar and undermine the PicPlum price.
But what sets PicPlum from each other now is Automation. Throughout the month you selectively in your best photos via email or upload them directly on the site. You don't have to remember to do something else — which, as any parent will tell you is a huge plus.
Curation is key
There is also something to this idea of conservation. Thanks to the ubiquity of digital cameras and camera phones, easy to accumulate large collections of photos containing hundreds of images, if not thousands. Family and friends (how much they love your kid!), do not have the time to sift through these online photos to select those they would like to print. So instead, you select the best photos and the rest is handled for you.
In a sense, PicPlum, as analog counterpart to my current favorite photo sharing application Photogram, which prompts you to select 4 photographs sent out an email with a subject. In PicPlum, in the case of "theme" is an attractive envelope and digital photography are physical prints. (But if you still prefer e-mail PicPlum also supports unlimited e-mail recipients free of charge).
About company & founders
Company founders have experience launch. Stamatiou co co-founded mobile alert platform Notifo and Dodja was one of the founders of the startup Mugasha music. PicPlum acquired the assets of the previous Y Combinator company PicWing and assumed his printer and an initial user base. The company currently has $ 150.000 in funding proposed SV Angel and Yuri Miller all startups Y Combinator earlier this year. The founders say they start their fundraising now and will be looking to hire soon.
Paul Stamatiou is a 24-year-old Web Designer, originally from Houston, Texas. He moved to Atlanta to obtain his BS in computational media from Georgia Tech after graduation ...
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