The Photo Printing API document summarizes Pwinty, a photo printing API that allows app developers to easily integrate worldwide photo printing fulfillment into their apps. Pwinty was founded by Tom Gallard and aims to compete with large photo printing companies like Snapfish and Photobox by reducing integration time from weeks to days. Pwinty has raised £125k in funding, become cashflow positive requiring no further funding, and works with large global printers to fulfill photo orders internationally.
2. Team
• Founder- Tom Gallard
• 4 years as first employee at Vizolution (Notion Capital funded SaaS startup).
Developed technology platform now used by majority of UK’s largest banks and
insurers.
• Previously three years at Bank of England. Developed systems handling billions of
pounds of daily transactions.
• Cambridge University (1st class honours)
• Developer - Steve Martin
• Founder member of Sequence, Wales’ largest digital agency
• Customer Support- Hannah Davies
3. The Problem
• How do I monetize my app?
• Printing houses – slow, technologically backwards, want to deal with a few big
customers (Snapfish, Shutterfly, Photobox).
• Developers want to get on with developing, not months of
negotiations/integrations
4. The Solution
• Pwinty is an easy to integrate API – we’ve done the hard work-
developers have one, simple point of integration for worldwide
fulfilment
• Lets anyone compete with Snapfish/Photobox
• An App developer can be selling prints at 8p each to UK, US, Europe,
Australia, Canada with just a days work
5. Market Size
• $5-10 billion worldwide
• Pwinty will be the size of a Photobox in less than 10 years time
6. Progress
• Started full-time work on Pwinty – Jan 2014
• Raised £125k funding Feb 2014 (from Indycube Ventures)
• Cashflow positive- no further money needed
• Work with the world’s largest printers (same as Snapfish etc)
7. Strategy
• Reduce integration effort from weeks to days (mobile SDKs, Shopify,
Wordpress etc)
• Expand internationally (South America and Asia next!)