Snappr, freelance photography app, expands to the US east coast

Mobile platform that links photographers to clients, Snappr, is starting with Connecticut in its quest to expand across the east coast.

California-based Snappr is launching markets in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford on Tuesday, offering its services in the area.

Much like the wave of ride sharing and delivery apps, Snappr lets users looking for a photographer to book a local freelancer for an event.

“Right now, we are expanding pretty rapidly, and Connecticut will be the furthest East that we have gone to date, so it’s sort of our first East Coast launch,” said founder and CEO Matt Schiller. “We are seeing a lot of demands for photoshoots in the area and in other places along the East Coast.”

Schiller started the company two years ago in San Francisco and focused on developing the brand along the West Coast. The idea was inspired by one of Schiller’s earlier startups in Australia that focused on graduation photos.

“It was such a successful product that we decided we should be doing this for much more than just graduation photography,” he said,

Now the platform touts on-demand access to some of the top freelancers in the area — visual artists who are interviewed extensively by Schiller’s team before being registered with Snappr.

“They’ve gone through a very long vetting process by the time I would put any photographer in touch with a customer through our platform,” Schiller said.

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