Here’s a fun application that we got wind of on this Friday evening. Dabkick is a photo sharing app which doesn’t let you share to everyone, but rather just to a single friend. Once you pick some photos to share, you can then choose a friend to initiate a photo session with.
Once the session starts you simply flip through your photo collection on your iPhone and your friend will see this slideshow on their phone in real time. There is a little bit of lag, I found, but the features here are pretty cool. You can chat in-app, or you can press some buttons to send messages like winks or laughs. There’s even a ‘dude’ button which I really enjoyed [1].
What’s interesting here is that the photo session takes place in the web browser on the receiving end. Your friend receives a URL where they can view that photo slideshow. After the session ends the photo slideshow is gone. So your friend doesn’t download the photos, they just get to see them for a short time. This function could actually come in handy for pro photographers who want to show their work to clients.
The app has just launched, and is supported with minority investment from Japanese social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632). The founder and CEO of Dabkick, Balaji Krishnan, noted in the announcement:
Simple things like showing photos instantly to my non-tech-savvy parents or allowing my wife to show me a photo of something when she is out shopping becomes much easier when you can link up and experience those moments together. Our goal is to bring people closer by creating an experience that we would normally get only from in-person interactions.
If you’d like to give Dabkick a try, you can download it from the app store. Currently it’s only available for the iPhone. Check out their demo video below.
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It just tied the app together. ↩
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