Exposure: Flickr Desktop for Leopard

This post is more “I’m looking at forming an exploratory committee” than an actual announcement. That said, now that Leopard’s out, I’m able to discuss what I’ve been cooking up for you: Exposure. Exposure is not a final product. In fact, it may never be a product. It’s currently what I would call a pre-alpha application that is is still very much in the development stage.

I was interested in talking to Tim Wood of Omni at WWDC about their experience in developing OmniFocus in such a public way. Bascially, what they do is throw out new builds of OmniFocus every day and have members of the beta testers mailing list thrash on it. I’ve been contemplating taking a similar approach with Exposure.

You can think of Exposure as a desktop client for Flickr, or as a kind of iPhoto application, except that the photos are stored on Flickr, rather than your hard drive.

So, I’ve posted three screenshots over on my Flickr account.

In this view, you can see the contents of Explore for a certain day, all 500 images at once:

In this view, your favourites:

And this view shows your photostream, all in one thumbnail view, being filtered iTunes-style:

So, please, let me know what you think by leaving some comments on the screenshots over at Flickr. I don’t have any idea of price yet – other than “not free”, obviously – and I don’t have a release date, even for the first alpha versions. I’m just trying to establish whether there’s a meaningful market for Exposure before I go further with the app.