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Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

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Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

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shadesandcolour wrote: post #68

Curious to know how you and other people on HN think about how this stacks up to existing journaling apps, like Day One and Memoir. Do you see it replacing Day One or complementing other apps like that?

I'm a fan of both of those products. I think different people are going to like different things. Heyday isn't the best product for very introspective people to write about their lives (we actually don't even let you write a new text note right now!), so DayOne is probably going to be better for people like that.

For people who are lazy, travel a lot, and take a lot of photos, Heyday is the best product for those people. Of this I'm fairly sure.

Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

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jmathai wrote: post #56

Wow. I rarely download this stuff. But the fact that it claims to be automatic piqued my interest. After downloading it I can say that my first impression is shocked. Shocked that I really liked it. I think what I love about it is that it's not social. It lets me relive my recent past. It includes some photos of my kids that I wouldn't put on Facebook, for example. That leads to a much more intimate experience of my…

Thanks so much for the feedback! I'd love to learn about what we can do better for you!

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jv22222 wrote: post #72

Fantastic. Great job. Also, well done for sticking to a side project for so long and releasing it, that's rare.

Thanks! To be clear, I didn't mean to imply that it's a side project. We've been working on it as a team of 2-9 for the past 18 or so months.

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blader wrote: post #13
bmelton wrote: post #12

It's a beautiful app, and I like just about everything about it. Generally, when I look at apps like this, I immediately think of ways I could be doing it better (often, I'm wrong, but nevermind that) -- but with this, it seemed like everything I thought of was in the very next screenshot as I scrolled through. It looks great (thought I would make the logo on the website much bigger -- probably twice as large). The s…

Thank you so much, that's such a nice compliment to our team. We're working on Android as soon as we can, but we're a very small team of 9 people.

Any plans to release for Windows Phone?

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Post by momop »

Beautiful app! It was a no-brainer setup and just worked! It so happened, I was listening to spotify while installing this app and it automatically pulled images and built a nostalgic video for me from the pictures I had stored! Just for that feature alone, I would use it. May be you can think about "centering" pictures and avoid zooming into dull areas etc.

But great inspiring job! Congrats!

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blakesmith wrote: post #40

I 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…

Thank you! We did it the naive way at first. We iterated to the current the sign up flow to maximize the opt in rate, so not quite brilliant design, just lots of iterating! =)

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HaloZero wrote: post #54

One thing that I've always liked about OhLife is that they send me an email everyday to keep track of my journal entries, anyway of integrating that in? I keep a zero inbox so this works out for me really well.

Yes! You should be getting a notification every so often to surface a nice memory or remind you to write. This is kind of annoying right now, but we're making it better!

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cesarbs wrote: post #75
blader wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you so much, that's such a nice compliment to our team. We're working on Android as soon as we can, but we're a very small team of 9 people.

Any plans to release for Windows Phone?

None at the moment, the numbers just don't make sense for our very small team right now. =(
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