It’s alive!
Welcome to the Bitnik Company blog! We’re a new Seattle based company. We’re focused on creating fun, innovative and easy ways to make your online photos better. But if you’re reading this, you’ve probably already used Picnik. If not, check it out at www.picnik.com.
First, a few introductions. Bitnik was founded by myself (Mike Harrington), Darrin Massena and Jonathan Sposato. The three of us have had oddly parallel careers starting in the game industry in the mid 80’s, Microsoft in the 90s and then each of us founded startups post Microsoft (Valve, Spiffcode and Phatbits, respectively). During that time we occasionally found ourselves working together and thinking that someday it would be great if we could start a company. Jon is our business/ceo, Darrin is the lead developer/cto and I’m the utility in-fielder/coo.
We also have two very talented fellow bitnikers, Peter Roman and Brian Terry. Peter is our UI/Graphics wizard, the man on the team who actually possesses a sense of style and who saves the world from our “programmer art” interfaces. Brian is a programmer who has had years of experience with startups and big web sites and currently is packing features into picnik as quick as we can release it. I’m really happy with the team we have.
When we were starting this company, I read tons of blogs of other startups like the Robot Coop, 37 Signals, Joel on Software, Andy Sacks’ blog and many others. I really appreciated the candor and openness of the blogs and I made a promise to myself that I would do my best to reciprocate with our blog.
Frankly, we have some things that we haven’t worked out yet, like the fact that our company name is Bitnik and our product name is Picnik. Originally, when it was just me and Darrin, we came up with Bitnik as our company name. It wasn’t until much later that we came up with the Picnik product idea and started assembling a team. Now it just seems confusing. We’ll be working on that soon.
January 31st, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Hmmm…since I can’t get to the individual post for the picnick release, I’ll leave my comment here.
First of all, your app looks great. I never thought I’d even be tempted to use a web-based photo editor, but picnick definitely looks like it could change all of that.
Now on to a few bugs/issues and a request – I didn’t feel like joining your forum :).
First of all, I can access your debug flash file pretty easily. I’m not sure if you care about this, and sorry about posting this publicly for everyone to see, but maybe that will light a fire, so to say.
Another minor issue: if I’m “logged in” and editing a photo, it seems like any page I try to hit in your domain, I’ll be redirected to “/app”. (If I just type in http://www.picnik.com while I’m logged in, I can’t view the home page until I sign out.)
And my request: how about the abillity to have multiple images open at once for editing?
That’s all for now.
Great work and good luck!
February 1st, 2007 at 10:36 pm
We saw your note and remvoed the debug swf. Thanks for the heads-up.
We’ve been talking about the redirection to /app and the loss of the landing page for people who are logged in. We don’t like it either. Expect some changes in that area in the somewhat near future.
Thanks for the feedback.
February 1st, 2007 at 10:41 pm
i’ll try to use this to edit my Flickrphotos.
It’s better, and easy to use. But i think the Speed is slow in china.
whatever,thanks a lot.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Question: Just how is this business going to make money? Tools like picasa (a downloadable software) do everything picnik does and much more of course. Just wondering about your marketing strategy???
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Picnic, edite as suas fotos online!…
Picnic é uma ferramenta online, construída em flash para manipulação de fotografias e imagens. com o Picnic podemos modificar os tons das cores, rodar, cortar, redimensionar, adicionar efeitos entre outras opções. Basta fazer o upload da nossa f…
February 5th, 2007 at 9:47 am
This application looks great .u gota lot of competetors though, and i think u r on the right time.So any new features gona be launched in this month?
February 24th, 2007 at 8:57 am
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May 5th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Great~
June 12th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
You guys have done good! Kudos to you all! Picnik is a brilliant idea, briliantly executed. Thanks for making such a wonderful addition to the world of digital photography. (I can’t stop using “rounded corners” — it’s filling up my Flickr stream! http://flickr.com/photos/exuberance/)
March 23rd, 2008 at 7:59 am
Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Wonderful application!
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