So I have known Paul Stamatiou for nearly four years now. We met at Atlanta Startup Weekend in 2007. He pitched Skribit at that event and my thought when he did so was great idea, we can build it, not so sure about the market. The market turned out to be small. 

About a year ago Paul packed up and moved West. He ended up working on a Y-Combinator startup called Notifio. That one I did not get at all.

Well earlier this summer we shut down Skribit and Paul got involved with yet another startup (seems like one of the big benefits of YC is safe landings). It went through the monster size YC class this summer. I had no idea what he was doing except working hard. 

Last week I got a note from Paul. Essentially said, go take a peek at this. This was Picplum. Picplum is aiming to be the easiest way to send photo prints. Nice service and I can see how this would be a big winner with parents of young children. Those grands in faraway places really like to have prints. 

Picplum is a monthly subscription service starting at $7 per month. You upload or email them photos, add a list of recipients and they automatically print and mail photos. Automatically being the key term.

Picplum has an interesting back story. They acquired the assets of previous YC company Picwing, and took over its printer relationship and initial user base. It seems that another Paul, Paul Graham, was a big fan and user of Picwing. The Picwing founders had gone off in another direction and PG was looking for someone with some passion to take it over. As I recently minted uncle Stamatiou was just the guy to do it.

The Picplum product is built fresh from the ground up. But they have a built in customer base and lots of interesting data to help them to understand the business.

PicPlum is offering a special to the readers of FoG which enables you to give the service a whirl by offering your first batch of photos free to two receipents. Here is the landing page to use the promo code.