Picsquare August 12, 2007
Posted by Pallav Sharda in : Photos & DIY content , trackbackPicsquare is a photo-sharing and printing site that has been around since early 2006. It was started by two ex-IITians and is based out of Bangalore.
The site design and navigation is very professional, and that alone is sufficient to let it stand out in the heap of half-baked Indian web startups. They’ve explained their products & services neatly- I’m surprised by the Rs.3 4X6 print (sounds like great value…haven’t tried them personally, though). It has Flickr like functionality (photo storage, sharing etc) but other offerings are around printing your photo on mugs, t-shirts, cards etc. If you can’t upload via web, there is an option of snail-mailing your photo CD to them.
I always feel that consumer-oriented transactional websites should foremost try to tackle ‘new user anxiety’ on the homepage- which is why I appreciate the “How it works” section, if there is one. A high-level graphic that explains how/what the site can do for the user, in three or four steps, is a must. Picsquare lacks this, but makes it up somewhat by a “FAQ” link at the bottom that takes you to a page that answers relevant questions.
Note: iTasveer is another photo sharing and printing startup by ex-IITians.
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**FYI - we got the following comment (in another section of eIndia) from Manish Agrawal at Picsquare**
Hi,
As we are aware that Yahoo Photos is closing for Indian users on October 18, 2007. Yahoo is allowing its users to migrate photos to Flickr which is undoubtedly a great photo sharing site. However, there are limitation like limited storage space for free account and Indian users can use Flickr only for sharing photographs.
To allow users to do more with their photographs Picsquare (www.picsquare.com) providing you an option of importing their Yahoo photo to Picsquare.
- Picsquare provides unlimited free storage space.
- Not only share photographs but also order photo prints online and get the prints delivered anywhere in India.
- Create various products like mug, t-shirt, calendar, poster using photographs
For more details please visit this link: http://www.picsquare.com/pages/newsletter/yahooNewsLetter.htm
Manish Agrawal
http://www.picsquare.com