@erik_byargeon Thanks Erik, I like your platform, think it's a great idea. Brand always want to content farm from the crowd as its such a rewarding win win and empowers fans. Great stuff... any competitors in the space?
@samir_doshi Right now, we are targeting a very niche space, and have little competition. As we grow, we hope to create a place where fans and brands can truly interact (news, comments, content, etc.)
At that point, we will run into competition from some small, local companies: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram... Hopefully, Product Hunt will get the word out about us by then ;)
Hey makers! Congrats on the launch. I love the product and premise here. Seems like a native app on iOS might make for a more seamless experience...any plans for that in the future?
@jjstidd Hello Jonathan, You bring up a great point with introducing this on iOS. It is indeed our plan to quickly release an app that allows for posting and also up-voting. Do you have any other suggestions for features you would want on that native app?
@lukas_huberman Nice! any desire to also connect it to instagram? Perhaps you could scrape instagram content using a particular hashtag (e.g. #🐝) or allow users to also post to instagram within your app as part of the post-submission process. Just spit ballin'
@kbclauson Thanks Kaben! We are really glad you like it. We are hoping to give people a better way to interact with their brands, and hope to see your photos getting featured sometime soon!
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While some may find the system in need of compensation, I think you have created a mutually beneficial model for scrappy young photographers that want a stage to showcase their talents. More than that - you bring up a really great discussion about the evolving freelance landscape and payment models. Really cool idea guys. Congratulations on getting this far.
Few questions:
Are the brands listed on the website actively watching and posting from the beefeatured listings?
Also - is there any integration with instagram at the moment?
Jonathan Stidd made some great points there. I think automatically posting from #beefeatured listed hashtags would take a lot of legwork out of this for photographers and resultantly encourage more participation.
Best wishes Bee team! Keep up the great work.
@codylewis Hi Cody! We are glad you like Bee, and are happy you share our vision for young photographers and the future of freelance photography. We hope to see you and many other people making a name for themselves on Bee.
As far as your questions:
We are currently working with our registered brands to encourage as many downloads and branded postings as possible. We cannot speak for how actively our brands are watching (because of privacy issues), but as we continue to gain more content, we have gotten more requests from brands to join the platform and more "featured photos". We still have a long way to go before people look to us first for branded photos, but we hope to get there as fast as possible.
We currently do not have integration with Instagram at the moment, because we are solely web based. Instagram doesn't allow you to post from the web, but we are looking into it as we considering developing a Bee application
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