news.ycombinator.com• Mar 10, 2011• 1 min read
Show HN: My inherently "viral" experiment: 3Pics.meAs you can tell, it's heavily influenced by Mark Bao's threewords.me. The concept is simple, upload three pics and let your friends vote on them. In fact, I think I may have ripped the concept off a post about threewords.me. Anyways...Basically, I just wanted to build something stripped down to a core functionality and a little different from my usual projects. I've spent a lot of time polishing the flow and trying to make sharing an inherent part of the app.It's built on Ruby/Padrino/Sinatra, Postgres and uses S3 for image hosting. This is actually my first Ruby project coming from a pure Django/Python background. It was a ton of fun to build and the guys behind Padrino were super helpful.I'm not really expecting much in the way of adoption, but it will be fun to watch either way. Anyways, let me know what you think of it! Enjoy!