the thing about giving them a bajillion dollars is...it's really easy to build yourself. any competent developer could build it in a couple of days. some of the other photo management apps already have similar functionality built in.

i'm not denying it's cool - just that you wouldn't buy them to aquire the technology (because it's simple) and you wouldn't aquire them for the audience (because they don't have one)

→ Posted by: cal at March 18, 2006 2:53 AM

Fair enough. I'm assuming it's all built on Image Magic or some library or other, but still, it's pretty fucking sweet.

→ Posted by: Tom Coates at March 18, 2006 4:01 AM

yup - Perl, LWP and ImageMagick in the requirements kit. still, nice product :)

→ Posted by: cal at March 18, 2006 4:23 AM

We (Stewart, Jeremy and I) met the pixoh fellow last night. He admitted that pxn8 was more fully featured, but did point out a number of things that he felt they got wrong and he'd gotten right.

→ Posted by: Bradley Horowitz at March 18, 2006 6:12 AM

Tom,

A bajillion dollars might be overkill (it's just a 2 person company - my wife and I). A couple million would come in handy though ;)
PXN8 probably isn't on anyone's M&A radar because (as cal points out) we are a product company not a community. We don't have a user-base as such but we do have a small but growing customer base (PXN8 is being translated into spanish - woohoo !).
BTW cal - I spoke briefly with you at the FutureOfWebApps conference in London last month - the Flickr authentication API rocks !
Bradley I'd love to know what the Pixoh guys think we got wrong - seriously we'll take feedback where we can get it, even from the competition ;-)

→ Posted by: Walter at March 18, 2006 2:32 PM

Its still neat and beats the bejaysus out of the Preview.app and Microsoft Paint.

→ Posted by: renaissance chambara at March 18, 2006 4:18 PM

PXN8 / Microsoft Paint
PXN8 / Microsoft Paint
No choice really :-)

→ Posted by: Free Football at March 19, 2006 6:28 PM