In memoriam
Everpix
Born 2011. Died 15 November 2013.
Everpix was founded in 2011 by French engineers Pierre-Olivier Latour and Kevin Quennesson, who set themselves a task of quiet ambition: to solve, finally and beautifully, the chaos of the modern photo library. Where others offered storage, Everpix offered intelligence — surfacing memories by date, culling duplicates, presenting a life’s photographs as they deserved to be seen. Those who used it did not merely tolerate it. They loved it.
It was not enough. Despite critical admiration and a devoted subscriber base, the company could not raise the capital required to reach the scale its economics demanded. On 15 November 2013, having failed to find a buyer, Everpix closed its doors and gave its users thirty days to retrieve what they had trusted to its keeping. The photographs survived. The service did not.
We could not find a path forward and had to make the hard decision to shut Everpix down.
Ran out of money
Mourned by Photographers, early adopters, and the many who had entrusted their most intimate images to its care.
A detailed post-mortem published by The Verge, which remains a seminal document on the cruelty of the startup funding cycle.