Show HN: Portrit - Your Facebook As Photos

[joneath]

Check out my blog post on the features and functionality of Portrit: http://blog.portrit.com/what-is-portrit

Today I am pre-announcing Portrit. Portrit is your Facebook as photos. Take Facebook, distill it to the simplest parts and put the focus on photos and you got Portrit.

I started making Portrit four months ago when I realized that Facebook's photo service really sucks. Photos on Facebook are tucked away behind many clicks from the home page. Once you do get to them you are greeted by a photo viewer that is dated to say the least. I knew there was a better way of viewing photos so that's when I started on Portrit.

Portrit is a persistent state web app that uses a single page. Around 95% of the code base runs as client side JavaScript. I am using LocalStorage and SessionStorage to cache all Facebook queries to make it fly.

I will be opening up a public beta in the next few days and of course HN will be the first place to get Beta keys.

Here is the landing page where you can signup for the beta: http://portrit.com