Hiya, If you're reading this, you're probably wondering what PicLink is and why we're building PicLink? Why We’re Building PicLink When I would go out with friends, whether it was a party at night or a multi-day trip, I along with those who were around me would all reach out for those little computers in our pockets with a lens on them to capture the memory - iphone or google pixel, android or iOS, expensive or budget. Click, and then we'd go about the day. Each click on the camera app, a fleeting few seconds but captured a memory that I, and those friends I shared it with could revisit for years to come. To me photos were a physical embodiment of memories in 1s and 0s that long outlived the memory. I could share the picture with family across the world, and in turn share my memory and story with those who weren't there when that picture captured the moment. There were a bunch of phones taking pictures of me, pictures that I wanted to have on my own device, and retain - so even when my memory fails me the pictures wouldn’t. This led to constantly texting friends and family after with, 'Hey can you send any pictures that I am in.” Leading to the usual response of, "absolutely will send it in a bit”. A bit took a while, and often this involved the other person shifting through 100s of photos to look for pictures where I was in them. Precious minutes were used up in the search for photos in which I was there by multiple friends. If they weren’t on an iphone there’s the dreaded “green bubble” problem. 20 photo limits for iMessages at once. File limit sizes on uploads to Google Photos. Airdrop and its long transfer times and having to be in close proximity the whole time. Online albums meant shifting through a sea of images for myself. The ability to share a few photos, something you think should be trivial, became a painful process of jumping through limits, different color bubbles, and countless minutes wasted. PicLink - The solution PicLink grew as an idea from this pain point. The idea to allow people to “Link” with each other agnostic of it was Android or iOS. Any image taken while the “Link” is active will be automatically uploaded to our servers, faces detected with computer vision ,and when the Link ends all those in the Link can download images of themselves (and their friends if they chose to) with one click. No image limits, no awkward messages and wait times to get the pictures, no time wasted looking through images to find the ones of you. Images and the memories they store and stories they share, shared with two clicks. Seamless, smart, magical - just like the moment you shared. In an age of data becoming a commodity we want to keep your personal pictures - the stories they share and the memories they tell private. They belong to you and those you chose to share those memories with. As such when a “Link” ends , and you download those images to your device, all images shared during that time disappear from our servers. Even though those pictures disappeared from our servers, they will live on on your device and with those you chose to share it with, and the places you choose to store it in. We view pictures as memories, and memories should only belong to those who made it - not to anyone willing to pay for it for any purpose whatsoever. The Future of PicLink So that’s the story of why we want to build PicLink. We want to make sharing pictures , the memories they store, the stories they tell seamless and magical. This is a first step, and there’s going to be bugs, and improvements to come. If you feel compelled by our story, and have experienced this problem feel free to give us a try, and let us know where we can improve. Connect memories. Share stories. Completely private. - Dhivas

Feb 2025