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Everyday.me (YC S12) - an "Evernote for Your Life"

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Serious, non snarky question - how are you different than Path, then?

A few different ways, I think Path is amazing for what it does, btw. A real inspiration for all of us. It seems to really promote you to share with your friends. We don't share at all. We also import your activities from other networks. You can post to it by email, view it on the web...please give it a try and let us know what you think.

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Re: Everyday.me (YC S12) - an "Evernote for Your Life"

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As an introvert who is in the process of deleting their facebook account for privacy reasons, I see real value in this. I'd like to keep a private journal more in line path/instagram/twitter - just for me. That being said I have a couple pieces of advice: Make sure I can export ALL of the data, anytime. Make sure you securely backup all of my data. CHARGE ME for this service, so I know you won't sell my data. Only wa…

The only way you will know they won't sell your data is if those terms are clearly stated in a contract between you and the vendor. Otherwise, you won't have any way to know they won't sell your data in the future. Imagine if you are the owner of Everyday.me and Facebook comes calling, flashing a huge check. They want your data and are willing to pay big bucks for it. If there's nothing in customers' contracts statin…

But if it's in the contract, then you know? That seems naive, you can't possibly know that they won't sell your data, but you can make an educated guess.

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After reading this, I still don't know what this is. Other than being like facebook, a notebook, twitter, blogs, a private journal, and Evernote, not that I've ever heard of Evernote before. How can something be like a facebook timeline and private at the same time? Why is it so difficult for people to describe their new service? Alternatively, why am I so bad at understanding?

Hi, we're sorry the description is confusing. It's similar to Facebook's Timeline in the sense that we list things chronologically, but it's completely private. I think the easiest way to think of it is a mobile journal that not only lets you input things, but also automatically collects your social activities across the web for you. Does that help?

Too me, the Evernote comparison didn't make a lot of sense. But the FB timeline explanation did.

So it's basically: a private fb-timeline like journal filled with things from social networks and real life

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Re: Everyday.me (YC S12) - an "Evernote for Your Life"

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After reading this, I still don't know what this is. Other than being like facebook, a notebook, twitter, blogs, a private journal, and Evernote, not that I've ever heard of Evernote before. How can something be like a facebook timeline and private at the same time? Why is it so difficult for people to describe their new service? Alternatively, why am I so bad at understanding?

>> Why is it so difficult for people to describe their new service? Alternatively, why am I so bad at understanding? Because it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

Could also be a solution to a problem you don't have.

I like the idea of a detailed Facebook timeline that goes back many years. But I don't want to share, or give FB, enough information for it to be worthwhile. Also, I'm not I'll be on FB in 10 or 20 years.

This might be their biggest challenge: Convincing me that they'll be around in 20 years

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Nice App. I worked on this Idea for quite long time and discussed with many web developers as I am not into web development.Many suggested me to learn and develop but I couldn't. That is a different story. My perspective was different and it was not just simple Private Journal of your personal life.It meant to improve your way of life. I thought of many features which can do so. For example: Capture moment and also m…

Yes! I'm really into self-learning and improvement as well, both in athletics and music. We're hoping with with this v1 of Everyday.me we first lay the groundwork for self-chronicling, then there's _so_ much we can do around goal setting, tracking, and helping people achieve their goals. That's what gets me really excited about working on this.

Email me at techynirvana[at]gmail[dot]com. I can share some more inputs for the betterment of the app.

Re: Everyday.me (YC S12) - an "Evernote for Your Life"

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, we're sorry the description is confusing. It's similar to Facebook's Timeline in the sense that we list things chronologically, but it's completely private. I think the easiest way to think of it is a mobile journal that not only lets you input things, but also automatically collects your social activities across the web for you. Does that help?

Then why not just say you list things chronologically? Why confuse your potential customers by making them work backward from Facebook's Timeline feature to simply listing things chronologically? If you have to attach to Facebook's success in order to sell your product, you probably have a long way to go. Try defining it in your own words.

Interesting you say this, as most people will tell you to define it in terms of products people already know and use. Most people would get "a Facebook timeline but private"

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While I'm not a target customer I'm sure you'll find early adopters thanks to YC&TC. Launching is hard, so congrats on that. That being said, I am still trying to wrap my head around the whole 'limited sharing' trend. Path got the ball rolling and has gotten pretty popular. Then came the sharing between couples - Pair, cupple etc. (seriously?) And now no sharing but just journaling for yourself ? How do you guys make…

Charging for the app would be the best way, although if this becomes venture funded then then it will be hard to just do that given the pressure to support a high valuation (see the recent google acquisition of sparrow)

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> An iPhone and web app called Everyday.me Right, so I get into the "private beta" and go to the link in the email. It gives me a popup saying, "Please use an iPhone to install this app." Meanwhile, on their homepage: > Access from anywhere - on mobile, email, or the web If having an iPhone is a requirement of using your website (which I assume functions perfectly well on its own), you're doing it wrong. If the websi…

>> Also, why are people still developing exclusively for iPhone? Last quarter there were four times as many Android phones sold as iPhones. I can only speak for myself, but developing for Android is a nightmare compared to developing software for iOS. Different behaviour amongst different Android devices makes it really hard to provide a consistent user experience.

I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment, but is "consistent user experience" necessarily something that should be a goal?

There's more to it, but when I hear that I'm reminded of web site "designers" that only use photoshop and focus/obsess over pixel-perfect layouts and font-sizings, to get everything to match exactly what their original photoshop 'design' looks like on their monitor, ignoring the variety of browsers/devices that may also visit the site.

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