Foap.com will turn your smartphone photos into dollars

Snap a photo with your mobile, and sell it. The Swedish startup Foap.com is launching soon and they are aiming to create the worlds largest marketplace for smartphone photos.

There are millions of great photographers taking photos with their smartphones and at the same time there is a need for greater variation and more natural photos for commercial use on the market.

“With ambassadors from all over the world, we believe that we can create an attractive database of photos and repair the current gap,” says David Los, Foap’s co-founder.

“The interest in photography has exploded during the last years and we can see it on popular applications like Instagram, with nearly 20 million users worldwide.”

Today the phones we carry in our pockets act as cameras too, which is most likely the explanation for increased interest in photography. There are hundreds of photo applications out there, however, this is the first of its kind.

“Foap focuses 100% on building up the market and making sure that we turn the photos into dollars for our users. We do not intend to create another community, instead our aim is to view other photo applications as potential partners,” says David Los.

The commercial photo market is complex for buyers as well as for sellers and it can be very frustrating when trying to find photos.

“Just as Spotify simplified much of the music industry, our aim is to do the same thing within the commercial photo industry. There are all kind of licences, many different prices and and a lot of frustration in the search and purchase process that we want to get rid of,”

Foap.com is co-founded by David Los, co-founder of Tripl.com and Alexandra Bylund, former e-commerce Manager at Solresor.se. They are totally five within the team and they are very conscious about the importance of keeping the energy up.

“The Foap.com team is skilled and energetic. Much of our focus is directed towards the atmosphere we create in our workplace; we believe it is the number one key to healthy productivity, says David.