Clik allows you to snap and share photos with friends in one step - our AI sends photos to your friends the moment they are captured. Instagram is a feed of curated moments from strangers. Clik is a feed of authentic moments you have shared with friends IRL.
Hello product hunt! I am so pumped to share Clik with you all. Here's how we got here 👇
Eight years ago I got my first camera in college - a Canon T3. I quickly became the “friend with the camera,” and couldn’t help bringing my camera to parties, group events, traveling, etc. I fell in love with capturing moments for others, but I never had a good way to share photos. Sharing photos with friends was annoying and sharing photos with strangers was impossible. It truly broke my heart when these amazing moments would go unshared.
Two years ago I was at a point where I literally began losing sleep over this problem. Engineer by day, photographer night, I knew how to build solutions, and I intimately knew the problem of photo sharing. I felt in my gut I was here on this planet to solve this problem. So, I moved to NYC and quit my job at GM to become a freelance photographer. I hustled hard to figure out how to pay rent in NYC with my camera, and started to develop my vision for Clik.
I discovered there was a HUGE problem in the event photography space. IRL events had begun blowing up post covid and UGC content had become the gold standard for brand awareness, but there was STILL no good way to share photos.
I partnered with my co-founder to start prototyping a tool that would help photographers deliver personalized photo galleries to event guests using AI. After 18 months of testing various prototypes, I have photographed around 200 events in NYC and delivered around 100,000 photos through various Clik prototypes to event goers.
Event goers LOVE finding their photos from pro photographers on Clik, but many asked “Can I share the photos too?”. This question led us to a realization - every guest is a photographer now, not just the pros. We all capture moments worth sharing, but very rarely find the photos we are in. This is why we built Clik for consumers.
We just launched on the app store and you can use Clik totally for free for a limited time. Here is how it works.
1 - Create an album
2 - Invite friends via QR or link to join via iOS App Clip - friends can share photos without downloading the app!
3 - Share photos through the in-app camera (kinda like snapchat)
4 - Photos are automatically shared to one central album while our AI notifies you of photos you appear in.
I am here to ask you for feedback. It would mean the world to us if you gave Clik a try and let us know what you love or hate, or where you’d personally like to use Clik to share photos?
Thank you in advance,
The Clik Team
Clik looks like an amazing product! 10/10 would recommend to anyone looking to streamline their workflow! Congratulations on the launch, and the best of luck today!
Great team and even better product! I used Clik to share photos after an event I hosted and it was a hit! 10/10
Absolutely, it's a great idea. Take our class photo sharing as an example: typically, we end up sending each photo individually into our group chat. It's nearly impossible to figure out which photos involve us without opening and checking each one, then downloading them one at a time. It's tricky to keep track of what's been downloaded, leading to a lot of inefficiency and the risk of overlooking some of the best shots.
congrats on the launch! In china we use similar AI tech in Marathon event, which might be a good use case for your Clik!
Best way to share photos natively and seamlessly. Changes the entire IRL experience when going out with friends!
I've seen a poll somewhere that went "name the things that feel like begging even though they are not," and asking friends for photos after joint outings made it to the top. The issue here is totally relatable :D
I'm curious about a couple of things:
- Is AI only used for face recognition, or is there something else?
- If my face shows up in photos taken by other users (not from my existing friend circle), will Click notify me? Does being friends matter in this case?
- Copyright/Attribution: I guess copyright probably isn't a big deal with close friends' photos. But what about professional pics? Photographers definitely would like a shoutout if the pic gets shared later. Does Click have anything to support attribution?
P.S. Congrats on the launch! The app looks slick, I hope to give it a proper test this weekend
For sure, that upvote's gotta count. Clik's hitting a fresh vibe in the photo-sharing game, focusing on that instant, 'real' share with pals. It's like the Polaroid for the smartphone era, instant and in the moment.
Love the idea! totally get it right from watching the video!
Wonder if this can be a slack/whatsapp plug-in?
Another common use case I can think of is that when going to museum/shows/exhibition/conferences with friends, we all took lots of photos and there's no way to share them easily, I'd like to see what they discovered in the event, from their perspective!
Oh, is there a way we can save our photos from Clik afterwards, or export to Mymind?
Keep it up!
