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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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momop wrote: post #76

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!

Thank you! We're working on exactly that - detecting nice faces and features in your photos to make them look better in your collages and slideshow.

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

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johncoogan wrote: post #52

Amazing work, incredible on-boarding experience. Opening the app for the first time and having the past few days already perfectly chronicled for me felt truly magical. Maybe I just got lucky, but I felt like the combination of my photos, geolocation data, and time data was perfect. Thanks for showing!

Thanks for trying it out and the feedback! When the stars align Heyday can be really magic.

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

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methehack wrote: post #59

I love that I didn't have to do anything and I already had a journal from my old photos. Very compelling. Overall on-boarding fantastic. I also really appreciate that its a private journal. Sick of sharing.

Thanks, would love to hear more as you use it, there's lots to be improved!

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Post by lbearl »

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 place we can get notified when this drops for Android?

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

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Jormundir wrote: post #60

I was really happy to see an app I actually want to use. Then I downloaded it, went through the introduction and hit a wall when I had to make an account or log in with facebook. If this is a personal journal, why do I have to make an account? I would love to use the app, but I'm not going to make an account and would want it to run without having to connect to an outside server in any way.

We actually implemented the other way first, where we showed you the journal and then let you log in. The user experience ended up being more complicated then we liked in user testing.

We ask you to make an account so that we can back up your memories, in case you lose your phone, or want to see it on the web. You can turn this off in Settings, and Heyday will live completely on your device and nothing will go to our servers, and it will work fine. Sorry about that.

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

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swalkergibson wrote: post #41
blader wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! We did raise a seed round from some investors. It was $2M and from a bunch of people: https://angel.co/hey

Right on! Looks like a good group behind you. Any plans for an Android version?

Yes! As soon as we make the product great on iPhone.

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

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Post by melvinram »

This app is awesome.

Question for developers: How can I delete stuff that you automatically journal? For example, I take pictures of white boards in meetings. I don't want them in my journal. I'd like my journal to be curated for future viewing.

Also, feature request: password protection. I don't anyone with access to my phone to be able to open the app.

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

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Post by aufreak3 »

Jormundir wrote: post #60

I was really happy to see an app I actually want to use. Then I downloaded it, went through the introduction and hit a wall when I had to make an account or log in with facebook. If this is a personal journal, why do I have to make an account? I would love to use the app, but I'm not going to make an account and would want it to run without having to connect to an outside server in any way.

Same question for me. I'd happily pay for this without an "account". I suppose that doesnt give you recurring revenue, but i can imagine things like tying up with photo album printers and dvd memoir makers may work?

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

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Post by rffa »

I had to create a account to comment here. I'm not the kind of person who likes this kind of app: Personal Journal, track activities, photo collages and so on.

HOWEVER, my sister is my opposite and SHE LOVED IT. She has a local (brazil) FB group of moms and first time mothers. The group has 3k members I think. She'll probably recommend it.

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