I am very impressed.
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.
#92I 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…
Just saw this reply. Maybe bring me to a screen with two buttons that say "create an account to sync" or "sync using icloud"?
Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
#93This 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.
You can swipe right on the title of any moment to delete it. =)
Passcode is coming, it's a pretty frequently requested feature.
Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
#94I 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…
Ok I'm in! Your reply is sufficiently reassuring :)
Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
#95I love it, its simple, automatic and it does exactly what I want. The initial tutorial is awesome - great idea! But...
I was quite disappointed when I read here, that you're actually downloading(syncing) all data to your cloud automatically. I would expect you to ask me also, in that brilliant tutorial, if I want to save my data to the cloud, since as you have mentioned, you're operating with the most sensitive data. As a result I found photos, which I really rather have in my pocket than somewhere on cloud.
Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
#96Beautiful 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.
Awesome! Look forward to it.
Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
#97Congratulations 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
If you are ok with answering how long in to building it did you look to raise money and how long did it take you? Did you have a demo for them to see? It seems 1 year before launching?
Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
#98Why is it free? I would've paid for this. Does advertising net you more profit in the long run?
We're going to be a freemium product. Advertising would be a terrible business model given how sensitive the data we're going to have is.
Looks cool - but coming from being in a similar automatic-diary iOS app space (Remembary), I'm really curious about your business model.
You have a team of 9 people and you've been working for 2 years - presumably costing well into the six (seven?) figures by now? Outside of Angry Birds and such, making serious money is pretty difficult in the App Store these days. Freemium for something as personal as a diary is tricky, since advertising is obviously a no-go - are you charging for the hosting? Is there a time limit?
I'm just a solo dev working on (and promoting) apps part-time, and you're VC-funded and have a whole team including someone who was "head of revenue for CityVille at Zynga," - so presumably you have something clever up your sleeves. I'm just curious.
I'm sure Momento and Day One make good money, but that much?
Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
#9960 seconds in and it looks fantastic.
Awesome launch / onboarding process. You explained each permission just before asking for it. So well done.
Suggestion -- can you use the M7 chip to detect when I've walked / run a distance worth remembering?
Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
#100It'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…
Agree with this comment -- very well done!