Yogile – a dead simple photo sharing site with a collaborative twist
The latter functionality nicely skirts around network effects as it doesn’t require the user to get their social graph to commit to using the same photo sharing service if they just want others to contribute ad hoc, uploading and sharing photos around a certain event, for example. In fact, the service is pitched perfectly for this purpose.
Yogile is built on Ruby-On-Rails, utilises Amazon’s S3 and is almost entirely the work of Sikkink with a little bit of additional help from a few freelance developers. Sikkink’s day job is at a small independent software development company called Nyana, according to the site.
Obviously, Yogile is operating in a very crowded space – Facebook photo sharing, Flickr or services like Dropbox spring to mind – although, as noted, its emphasis is on the simple creation of collaborative photo albums, and like Flickr in the early days, has a bare bones elegance about it that aesthetically is quite pleasing. It’s well worth a look.
The service is free for 100mb of upload space, after which an ad-free premium offering is available at $24.95 per year that gives unlimited photo uploads, albums and storage.