Earlier this year, John Saddington launched a Kickstarter campaign to support his latest project – Pressgram.
And let me just say – I’m a huge fan (and backer).
What started as a personal side project for John has turned into a full-time job thanks to the Kickstarter support.
The FREE iOS app (Android planned to be released later) sets out with a sole purpose of freeing content creators from the often insane terms of service some social networks offer their users.
The app works similar to Instagram but instead of uploading your photos to a server owned and controlled by Facebook, users upload their photos to their own WordPress powered site (hosted or self-hosted).
Think about that – a super easy way to get the features you love in apps like Instagram (filters, social aspect, etc) but you get to own the content and bring traffic to your own sites – not someone else’s.
What better way for a business to drive traffic to their site than with an app that posts images directly to their site and then shares a link to it on Twitter or Facebook? No more sending customers to someone else’s site and hoping they click back to yours.
I can’t wait!
Personally, I’ve been trying to share most of my content here on my blog again – like the good ole’ days – and while the WordPress iOS app does a decent job of posting content to your WordPress blogs, the media manager/uploader leaves me wanting.
I have no doubt Pressgram is going to fill that hole the minute I get my hands on it.
Who knows… it may even be enough to get me to finally hit that delete account button.
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What about you? Are you frustrated by the terms of service companies like Facebook and Flickr offer?
Would you delete your accounts and move everything to a self-hosted solution if the right tool was available?