Congratulations on the launch! The app looks beautiful and the fact that it automatically does all of this for you is pretty cool. Anyway, I was wondering, are you guys funded at all? You seem to have a pretty big team. Just curious!
Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
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#32Wow, really beautifully done. Simple, elegant, useful, and fun.
Thank you, all credit goes to our amazing team: http://www.hey.co/about
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#33The only thing that would attract me to a "personal archive" product is being able to completely and totally own it. I want to have ownership not just over my data, but also of its presentation. If you decide you want to redesign the app and I hate it, then all of my previous time and energy is wasted. This product immediately asserts, 'use me forever', but everything about the project says 'we raised money, and who…
Pixter (http://pixter.in/), if you mainly deal with images.
I, too, would like an app like the one you're talking about. Maybe something that plugs into Dropbox.
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#34Here's an interesting example of where time to market really matters. I've had Memoir since upgrading to iOS7, and I'm pretty happy with it. So it feels like you're late to the party by several months. Bit of a bummer since it sounds like you put a lot of effort in.
Conversely, when Memoir came out, they couldn't handle their anticipated scale, but they got their foot in the door. Seems to be a good case for "just shipping it".
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#35Congratulations on the launch! The app looks beautiful and the fact that it automatically does all of this for you is pretty cool. Anyway, I was wondering, are you guys funded at all? You seem to have a pretty big team. Just curious!
Thank you! We did raise a seed round from some investors. It was $2M and from a bunch of people: https://angel.co/hey
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#36This is sort of off-topic, but I think it's still HN relevant and might be helpful.
The WOT (web-of-trust) plugin rates your site as untrustworthy. But the rating shows some crazy IP-based russian spam site from a year ago. I'm new to WOT so I don't understand--is this rating due to too-broad-a-wildcard in the system, or due to previous use of the site owner, or something else? (I'm hoping someone more familiar with WOT jumps in and explains what's going on here.)
In any case I rated it trustworthy on WOT so hopefully that percolates through the system eventually.
Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
#37Here's an interesting example of where time to market really matters. I've had Memoir since upgrading to iOS7, and I'm pretty happy with it. So it feels like you're late to the party by several months. Bit of a bummer since it sounds like you put a lot of effort in. Conversely, when Memoir came out, they couldn't handle their anticipated scale, but they got their foot in the door. Seems to be a good case for "just sh…
That's cool. I use Memoir too, and it's a great app. I think you'll find that Heyday does things a little differently and is good for other use cases, like traveling or keeping a journal.
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#38The only thing that would attract me to a "personal archive" product is being able to completely and totally own it. I want to have ownership not just over my data, but also of its presentation. If you decide you want to redesign the app and I hate it, then all of my previous time and energy is wasted. This product immediately asserts, 'use me forever', but everything about the project says 'we raised money, and who…
I feel the same way. That's why we spent time building it so that all of your data lives fully on your device (it's synced to our servers for backup purposes, which you can switch off). So even if we run out of money, you can still use Heyday forever. But less factually, I'm in love with this product and I intend to work on it for the rest of my life. Even for free.
This comment converted me to download the app. I'd strongly suggest making this more clear in your product's description! :)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any plans for a kind of "export"? I like this idea a lot, as someone with a terrible memory but that doesn't use social media like Foursquare. I would only worry about a way to have my data permanently. Outside of the app which could be pulled from the AppStore at any time.
This is literally our #2 most requested feature. We so want to build this. If we do get pulled from the App Store, it will still be on your phone, so as long as you don't delete it you'll be fine.
I don't consider being on my phone to really be an archive. People change phones, etc. Looks awesome but I wouldn't seriously use it if I couldn't export the data--in whatever degraded form--to a standard format. Frankly some sort of PDF export would be fine.
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#40I got the biggest smile on my face when I saw pictures I had already taken get pulled into your app right after launching for the first time. It was so easy to add a note to pictures I had already taken. Immediate engagement win.
By the way, your sign-up introduction flow is awesome. I love how all the permissions I granted (location, photos) had context as to why I gave them. That's a huge deal, since most apps just ask for what they need on immediate startup and I always get really annoyed. More apps should emulate this design!
Awesome work!