You know what it’s like — you’ve been on vacation and you’ve taken 28 million photos, and you just want to pick the best 12 so you can make a calendar. Nobody gets it for that time – and that’s what GoodOnes is here to help you with. The app is currently in early access mode, and has closed a $3.5 million round of seed funding to continue its journey to launch.
In short, GoodOnes connects to your Google Photos or iCloud Photos account and helps you select the “best” photos from your huge image library. The idea is not new; We’ve seen several apps try to clean up image junk. One example was EyeEm’s The Roll, which made a similar attempt by igniting the business model of turning everyone into a stock photographer.
At least The Roll made sense as a marketing strategy for EyeEm’s flagship. What’s less clear is how GoodOnes has a way to generate revenue.
“We’re really thinking about the subscription layer on top of this product. We’ve seen a lot of willingness to pay from consumers, especially the targeted segment of parents and grandparents,” explained Israel Shalom, co-founder of GoodOnes, in an interview with TechCrunch. We haven’t finalized our subscription model yet. Our main focus at this point is to build a good user base and get all the feedback to improve it.
The company raised the round from TLV Partners, Liquid2 Ventures (Joe Montana’s fund), as well as Rich Miner (former co-founder of Android) and Peter Welander (founder of Carousel, which was sold to Dropbox), among others. More experienced operators and cashiers. With the funding, the company plans to expand its engineering team.
In a world where Google, Apple and other photo curation apps are striving to showcase good and interesting photos, is there a place in the market for GoodOnes?
“The truth is, these apps have been around for a decade on Apple’s side and on Google’s side. What they’re doing well is providing secure storage for all your photos,” Shalom says, noting that competing apps aren’t doing a particularly good job of opening photos and that his solution is more customizable. .
Use your swipe-left-me-this and swipe-me-to-right to learn your preferences and train your preferences on the AI. From there, it starts creating galleries of photos it thinks you’ll like the most. The final gallery or album is created and returned to the user.
“We’re thinking there’s room for another big player here. The way Netflix is similar to streaming and Spotify is similar to music,” says Shalom. “We want GoodOnes to be the place where you use your most personal and most valuable information, which is your personal photos and videos.”
The application can crop, select the best photos and give you a gallery of your favourites. GIF credits GoodOnes
Android co-founder Rich Miner said, “By creating mobile platforms, we’ve ended up putting powerful computers, digital cameras, and streaming devices in everyone’s pocket—we could never have imagined the new content that would be created. GoodOnes’ round is an angel investor, it is in the description. “GoodOnes brings powerful therapy to the deluge of photos we’ve all come to store. I’m very excited about this device and technology, which is why I’m so glad I made the investment.
