pixelspread: Picboost Redesign

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posted on 12/16/07

I just finished up a redesign for picboost.com today. This is another site coded by Naresh. It’s a very simple service, just an easy way to host your images. No login required, no fluff, kind of like senduit. I’ve seen competing services, like TinyPic, but there are lot of unnecessary features there. When I want the all kinds of extra features, flickr is great, but for just showing a client a quick mock up or passing along an icon, an upload form is all I need.

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chriskalani

posted on Dec 16, 07:41 PM

That’s pretty slick dude. I just wonder how long it will be until it becomes completely consumed with ads. Like redirects after upload and crap haha.

Naresh

posted on Dec 17, 11:45 AM

@chriskalani the answer to your question is Never. I’m the owner of picboost, and I love clean and easy to use websites. That one ad unit is the only ad that’ll be on there.

- Nash

Peter

posted on Dec 17, 01:34 PM

I tried to upload an mp3 but halfway through it said invalid file. And it should say 10Gb not 10Mb ;-)

Brad Purchase

posted on Dec 17, 05:57 PM

@Peter, PicBoost is an image uploads site, not a file uploads site.

Matt, Naresh – great work once again. This is definitely the easiest form of image uploading, and there are a lot of options out there.

Naresh

posted on Dec 19, 11:47 AM

Thanks @Bradpurchase. It is meant to do a few different file types. .txt works, as do a few others. I’ll post a full list later.

Thanks Brad and Peter – I’ll enable mp3 for ya

Peter

posted on Dec 31, 10:49 AM

You’re up against a lot of competition with picboost. The design should help a lot providing your features are enough. mp3 uploads don’t work and 10mb upload is minimal . I just reviewed some free online storage sites that you may like to check out.