PhotoShare - Showcase Project

Photoshare (www.photoshares.xyz) is a free-to-use online photo critiquing, sharing, and competition website for users all around the world! There are no restrictions on the subject matter of the photos, as long as they are not offensive. We believe in providing professional and aspiring photographers a suitable platform to showcase their work online, garner feedback, and perhaps even compete with their peers in competitions! These photo competitions occur weekly, with renowned and certified judges scoring the submissions. We also have a focus for providing a place for photographers who want to improve their techniques and skills to find the right advice they need in order to succeed. Our mission is to provide photo enthusiasts around the world with an online platform to judge/rate/comment/critique on their own photos as well as their peers' photos. We launched the website back in August 2015 and we're based out of Metro Vancouver. The founder, Tony Wei, had worked on it as a hobby while attending his final year at the University of Waterloo, with intentions of making Photoshare a web-based startup. Since then, new features of the website have been pushed out to the public at least three times a week, which recently included the Learn & Improve feature as well as several major user interface and performance upgrades. Since our inception, we have always been very active on social media. Our website features a home page where all the popular photos are displayed, such as most liked, most commented, recently uploaded, and even highest competition scored. One major feature of the site is the Learn & Improve page where free users can request up to 10 photography-related advices per day and premium users have unlimited requests. Another feature is the ability for special users, called chairmen, to initiate photo competitions in which premium users can submit their photos to, and certified judges can give these photos a score out of 10. The winner of the competition can win prizes. Users of Photoshare are able to log in without registering an account by linking their Facebook account. Apps for iPhone and Android are currently under development.