by Kelly Smith
We often get asked, “Why did you create Zapd? What does it do? Why do I need it?” This video answers these questions and walks through how Zapd is different than – and often complementary to – traditional website builders, Facebook, blogs, Tumblr, Twitter, Flickr, email and other ways of sharing photos, events, and stories.
Zapd is a mobile-first app that allows users to instantly create a website, micro blog, or photo album right from their iPhone and share it with their friends via Facebook, Twitter or email. Zapd is also the first iPhone app that enables collaboration between multiple people on the same shared website, or Zap. There are many other tools out there for sharing photos or stories but each one more or less specializes in one particular area and/or user experience and approach. Zapd includes the most relevant things to provide a uniquely social tool for stories and chapters of your personal or professional life, which includes photos, text, and links.
How Zapd compares with other alternatives:
Website Builders
- Website builders like Wix and Go Daddy are good for small businesses but too complicated to tell a story about a family vacation.
- Not event-based or impulsive; you can’t tell a quick story from your phone.
Blogging Tools
- Starting a blog can feel like a big commitment.
- Blogging tools like WordPress and Tumblr can get complicated.
- Not easy to use quickly or create from your phone.
Photosharing
- Photosharing sites like Flickr or Shutterfly are for photos only and don’t have elements of a blog to tell a story.
- Sometimes users have to have an account for photosharing sites to see your full albums.
Social Networks
- Social networks make it hard to selectively share, you can’t share photos with just some of your Facebook friends.
- It’s hard to keep a cohesive story going on your Facebook feed. Too many photos “pollute” your friends’ feed.
- Twitter only lets you share one photo at a time; it isn’t good for telling a story.
- Cameras are putting out better and better photos which means bigger photos, it’s hard to send a lot of large files in just one email.
- You can’t update an email by adding photos or text, once it’s sent it’s sent.
- Not collaborative.
Photo Apps
- Very focused on the photos with no blogging element.
- Photo apps like Instagram are good for adding photo filters but not built for telling a complete story.
Please let us know how you feel Zapd is different!
It’s all good,
Kelly Smith
Founder, CEO | Zapd