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Yeah, fixblurryphotos.com was an experiment to see if people would be satisfied with very simple photo improvements rather than the full deblurring power of Blurity.

When I was experimenting with the SaaS version of Blurity, I found that many of the people who did eventual make purchases were, firstly, interested in only a single photo; and secondly, satisfied with the most trivial of improvements. I lamented that those people would be just as satisfied with auto-levels and unsharp mask as they were with Blurity, so my friend Tyler threw exactly that simple service together in about 10 hours.

The results? Turns out that people aren't willing to pay for something simple like that after all.



Tell you what, if I was stuck without _my_ laptop, but had access to a random web-connected computer, I'd pay for a day's worth of emergency access in a pinch, to crop/deblur/resolution-enhance/color-balance some photos for a deadline...




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