I've been working on this project for a while and I think it's at a point that I am happy launching it to the Hive community(more than I have done on PeakD snaps). Give it a try! Upload some pics, and see what you think.
XPLpic is a picture sharing site that I've been working on where the main focus is the map and seeing pictures there. Upload a picture(or a few) to the map and see your addition there instantly!
The site is https://xplpic.com/.
I like sharing pictures of places I go to. If you follow me and look at snaps, you'll see quite a few from my trips over the years. I also don't really like writing much and posts on Hive feel like they need more than an image(social pressure is real even if code doesn't enforce it). This lets me share it quickly. It also has some of the features that I really wanted on other picture sharing apps, like automatically detecting the location from the uploaded image(using EXIF data that most phone camera add to the picture) to make things a bit simpler.
Making the application as simple as possible to use is very important for me. I want it to be easy to use. Yes there are bugs at this point, but they are being worked on over time and will be fixed once reported.
The app is built on Hive, but unlike most Hive projects which involve posting, the rewards are not a focus of this at all. Hive is basically only used as a database layer. Of course you can still get rewards, it's just not a focus point of the site at all. None of the posts are made at the top level, instead everything is a comment within this post. There is no option to post at the root level. Everything will remain a comment. Votes cast from the site are also done at 0.01%(this is not a typo). Voting isn't for giving reward, but just to count the vote on the post. Rewards are not visible on the site at all(and other than keychain, Hive is not mentioned anywhere else).
You can log in with Hive-Keychain, or HiveEmailLogin(another thing I'm working on, more info on this will come in the future, but the main goal of that project is to have non hivers have a easy way to use Hive without having to deal with all of the hard parts of Hive for most people). Just upload a picture and it'll show up on the map.
Yes, I know that other similar projects already exist on Hive(
I don't want this to feel like a "blockchain" project. I want this to be something I can send to my friends, and not have to explain anything and they can just get on and use it.
I'm seeking feedback. If you have any thoughts, please post it in the comments, or join our discord here: https://discord.gg/gphRS4tCZW. In the comments here are preferred :peakd/hive:.
Once there's sufficient seeded data, and the email login is more "ready" I plan on announcing this on a platform like Reddit or such and hope to have users using Hive without them needing to know about it.
