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by maambmb 3680 days ago
My buddy and I created ImagePoke over the course of a week as a side project. We're pretty new to web development, so we're learning a lot as we go.

The idea for ImagePoke is pretty simple:

1) Upload/Provide a URL for an image 2) Crop said image 3) Doodle on said image 4) Provide recipient address details 5) Provide payment ($3.00) via stripe 6) Doodled image arrives at recipient's address as a postcard in ~ 7 days

A Picture of the first two ImagePokes ever:

http://www.imgur.com/XRltBxH

We've got full "account" support (at the end of the process you can create an account that stores recipient addresses and payment methods), but this is optional.

Any suggestions/criticisms would be massively appreciated, as I said, we're both quite new at this..

Thanks!

- Tim

1 comments

This is a great idea! One suggestion I have is to limit the file size for uploada. I tried to upload an image greater than 3mb and I have been waiting for iit to finish(still waiting)
Thanks atulord!

I'll get that fixed sometime today.

ImagePoke definitely needs a layer (or two) of serious polish. I'm sure there are still a few more bugs lurking :P

Tim