PicUp

I am happy to introduce PicUp, a very simple way to swap pictures with people attending an event without giving out any personal details such as email address.

Using PicUp

When attending an event, browse to http://picup.drori.me on your mobile phone and generate an event code. Next, get people with cameras to take a picture of your phone's screen displaying the code.

After downloading the pictures from the camera to the computer, to upload pictures and see pictures uploaded by other participant, browse to http://picup.drori.me from your computer, click the 'Share and download' button and pick the picture with the code.

Pointers:

• When you get your screen photographed for the code, make sure the website name and 4 code groups are readable. This way you can be sure that the photographer will get to the right event folder even if the QR code cannot be automatically decoded.
• Full size pictures will be archived after a while. You can still get the pictures using credits, so get in early after the event.
• You can embed the code in an invite / poster for an event for people to photograph.
• Do not treat PicUp as a picture hosting website like Facebook or Picasa. Once you download the pictures you want, add them to your favorite site.

Feedback

Please use the feedback badge on the website or this link for complaints or praises.

Thanks

This was not a one man job, +Amit Feller is my partner in this crime, doing most of the work when he is suppose to sleep or party or whatever young kids do these days.

weekend reading

If you are an engineer, you ought to read The Door into Summer. If you are an actor or aspiring, read Double Star. A black ops type - read Friday.

Thanks +Omri Drory for getting me back reading and listening to books in a big way and for inspiring me into entrepreneurial action!

what is twitter good for?

Twitter is a great tool to connect with companies! Thanks @braintree

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day two

• Exercised my post apocalyptic profession - house cleaning. Let me tell you, if you want a clean house - do it yourself. Not to say that our cleaner did a bad job, just not such a great job as I did.
• My wonderful new phone ( Sony Xperia Z C6603 Black Factory Unlocked LTE BANDS 1/3/5/7/8/20 International version - Original Sony phone ) fell from my torn pocket, luckily I found out 10 meters later and ran to get it. On the way it fell from my hand and I have a new scratch on my new phone - blamed the poor old pants and threw them away. This got me thinking about a bluetooth bracelet that vibrates when you get too far from your phone. Searched the net, found one ( Silicone Bluetooth Incoming Call Vibrate Alert Alarm Anti-lost Band Bracelet ), but it is pretty ugly - +Liran Bachar , do something about it.
• Built nodejs on my Samsung Chromebook (Wi-Fi, 11.6-Inch). v0.10.5 did not work, but v0.8.23 works fine.
• Found out about payz . Similar to my third idea (I have three) but not quite. +payz talk to me if you want my angle. 

first post

This blog is about my journey to becoming an entrepreneur. I mean for it to log my progress and new knowledge. If posts frequency is too high, it means I am using the blog as an escape from doing real work so please let me now by commenting.

I am writing in English because the first tool of the trade I bought ( Samsung Chromebook (Wi-Fi, 11.6-Inch)) did not have Hebrew letters until a few seconds ago.