I took 28 million photos during my vacation. Suppose you want to select the best 12 to create a calendar. No one has time for that – and that’s what GoodOnes is here to help you with. has just completed a seed funding round for
In a nutshell, GoodOnes connects to your Google Photos or iCloud Photos account and helps you choose the “best” photos from your vast image library. This idea is not new. I’ve seen many apps try to clean up the image clutter. An example of this is his EyeEm’s The Roll, which did something similar and promoted a business model where everyone became a stock photographer.
At least The Roll makes sense as a marketing stunt for EyeEm’s core business. What’s less clear is how GoodOnes has a revenue-generating path.
“We are seriously considering adding a subscription layer on top of this product. The model is not finalized yet, our main focus at the moment is building a great user base and getting all the feedback to improve it.”
The company raised funding from TLV Partners, with participation from Liquid2 Ventures (Joe Montana’s fund), Rich Miner (former co-founder of Android), Peter Welinder (founder of Carousel, sold to Dropbox) and many others. Did. More skilled operators and funders. With this funding, the company plans to expand its engineering team.
In a world where Google, Apple, and other photo-storing apps are already striving to produce good and interesting photos, is there really room for Good Ones in the market?
“The reality is that these apps have been around for 10 years, both on Apple’s side and Google’s side. He points out that competing apps don’t do a particularly good job of just displaying photos, and that his solution is much more customizable. “The difference in what we do is we put you in the driver’s seat.”
The app works by learning your preferences and using swipe-left-i-love-this and swipe-right-ugh-get-out-of-my face to train your preferences in the AI. increase. From there, start building a gallery of photos that you think you like best. A final gallery or album is created and displayed to the user.
“We think there is room for another big player here, just like Netflix is synonymous with streaming and Spotify is synonymous with music,” Shalom says. “We want GoodOnes to be the place to consume the most personal and most valuable information, such as personal photos and videos.”
This app can eliminate duplicates, select the best photos and display your favorite galleries. GIF credit: good stuff
“The creation of the mobile platform has put powerful computers, digital cameras and streaming devices in everyone’s pocket. Co-founder Rich Miner is an angel investor in the GoodOnes round, the company said in a statement. “GoodOnes brings powerful curation to the plethora of photos we have all come to amass.
