On: Aim Higher: Stop Building Photo Sharing Apps

[issaco]

My theory as to why so many photo sharing apps:

(2007-2008 CS193P) Stanford Apple iPhone app project involves twitter api -> many twitter clients created.

(2009-2010 CS193P) Stanford Apple iPhone app project involves flickr api -> many photo sharing apps created.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/system/f...

"By this point, your Paparazzi app looks up real users on Flickr, finds and lists their photos and lets you view them up close by zooming and panning. It also plots these photos on a map and lets you browser photos by location."

[dotBen → issaco]

Theory only works if the majority of these apps were built by Stanford CS Alumni who took the 2007-2008 or 2009-2010 iPhone class.

That's not the case for Path, Color or Instagram.