I don't understand the concept of openness and liberation as it applies to photos. To me, those are political concepts, not technological ones. Maybe I'm not in your target market, but to me it makes much more sense to tie "sync" and "share" to your copy more so than "open" and "liberation".
For example, if the name of your service was PhotoSync, and then if I went to the front page and saw a comparison between your service, Facebook, Flickr, and ICloud, I'd be very curious to see what you could offer over the options available to me.
Best to ride the coattails of those companies that have invested orders of magnitude more money to educate the market than to educate them yourselves.
Please put an example openphoto site linked up front. I still can't figure out what an openphoto site looks like and feel like I dug through everything.
I'm more picky about a photo gallery's look-and-feel off the bat before I think about proposing/coding changes to it.
Might I suggest you change the pictures on this example site - two of the first three are of the (clothed) rear-end of a small child, and the headless nature of the pictures makes them an odd and slightly uncomfortable thing to be presented with; if I had been browsing at work I'd have closed the window.
This. I went on the home page and didn't get the concept till I looked at the Kickstarter page.
You should put a big illustration on the front page that shows 1.) how the personal cloud powers the photo sharing and 2.) how this differs from the walled gardens of Facebook and other sites.
Also, on overview page. There is just shit loads of text. You might want to break it into a list or a series of headlines that will help me understand better.
I know you are passionate about it and won't mind writing a book on it. But overview means... well... an overview.
I don't understand the concept of openness and liberation as it applies to photos. To me, those are political concepts, not technological ones. Maybe I'm not in your target market, but to me it makes much more sense to tie "sync" and "share" to your copy more so than "open" and "liberation".
For example, if the name of your service was PhotoSync, and then if I went to the front page and saw a comparison between your service, Facebook, Flickr, and ICloud, I'd be very curious to see what you could offer over the options available to me.
Best to ride the coattails of those companies that have invested orders of magnitude more money to educate the market than to educate them yourselves.