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by joneath 5730 days ago
It's been four months of hacking and now I am ready to show the world Portrit. Portrit brings you your Facebook friends in visual experience. Portrit is all about your friends photos and making the Facebook experience cleaner, quicker, and more fun. Create a account at http://portrit.com/create_account/ Use the key HN. Limited supply!

I started working on Portrit because Facebook's photo service is junk and I wanted something better. Originally this was a personal side project but it has grown into my first startup! This is just a limited preview launch with official public beta coming soon.

If you don't have a Facebook account or just don't trust me with you data :), check out this blog post showing all the functionality of Portrit. http://blog.portrit.com/what-is-portrit

*edit - I just upgrade everyone who made an account to Social. This key was supposed to give everyone this upgrade when you made an account...My Bad. The Social account lets you comment and like post as well as select favorite friends or hide friends.

1 comments

Wow this is pretty awesome. The photo perusing is quite fun with this UI.

In your Privacy Policy, you state that "We[you] only collect user analytics data. " For being more open with data, could you create some page within your application to report what bits of data you are storing about me?

I am using Google analytics to measure trafic as well as events. On the backend I store the email address the user used to create their account, their Facebook ID, favorite friend ID's, and hidden friend ID's. I wanted to be as private with data as possible. 95% of the code runs client side and never talks to the server.

I plan on updating both the privacy policy and the terms of service. I modeled them off of Digg's but I am no lawyer, I am a hacker :).