MyWeku

In the third part of our series on African Photo-sharing Sites, we find out how Mokocharlie plans to monetise thier collection of photos. Also, finding suitable African themed stock images is tantamount to looking for needles in a haystack. We wondered if Mokocharlie could be the genesis in providing a solution to this problem.

MyWeku: As at now you have over 1900 photos on your site. Can the photos on Mokocharlie be used as Stock images?

Mokocharlie: Yes, we’ve already started creating a platform that will allow us to sell high resolution photographs online, but for now media houses pick photographs from our website and credit us.

MyWeku: How do you handle storage capacity and are there plans to charge for the use of storage as is increasingly becoming common for other photo sharing sites?

Mokocharlie: Very carefully, we use load balancing to make sure that we are not inundated with too many image requests at once. We are looking at possible integration with the Amazon S3 engines at some point but at the moment we have to do everything ourselves.

MyWeku: Anything else to add?

Mokocharlie: We are flexible enough to add features and iterate as and when needed. Perhaps later we could think about commoditizing the service but as it stands, everything on there is free. We have also built our website and the features within it from the ground up; we think that is remarkable!

See Also:

African Photo-Sharing Sites – Part 1

African Photo-Sharing Sites – Part 2

African Photo-Sharing Sites – Part 4