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Re: Show HN: Journi, a free travel journal iPhone app

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Post by tosh »

I wonder how many verticals can be built upon facebook's core concept of sharing thoughts and photos just by carving out a niche and doubling down on it.

I guess this is another instance of the higher level arc of use-case unbundling in the mobile space.

Another recent example would be Product Hunt as unbundled 'show hn'. Food for thought.

Re: Show HN: Journi, a free travel journal iPhone app

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Post by papauschek »

tosh wrote: post #2

I wonder how many verticals can be built upon facebook's core concept of sharing thoughts and photos just by carving out a niche and doubling down on it. I guess this is another instance of the higher level arc of use-case unbundling in the mobile space. Another recent example would be Product Hunt as unbundled 'show hn'. Food for thought.

no doubt, journi is a niche product, as I built it for people on the go. What I saw on FB is that users are tired of people over-spamming their timeline with vacation photos. And other users don’t want to share certain things on facebook because the data might be too private or too spammy for others. And last but not least, it’s hard to recover important moments on facebook. Moments easily get lost in your timeline or your friends streams and stay there unnoticed.

Re: Show HN: Journi, a free travel journal iPhone app

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Post by Spooky23 »

tosh wrote: post #2

I wonder how many verticals can be built upon facebook's core concept of sharing thoughts and photos just by carving out a niche and doubling down on it. I guess this is another instance of the higher level arc of use-case unbundling in the mobile space. Another recent example would be Product Hunt as unbundled 'show hn'. Food for thought.

I think that it is nearly unlimited.

Facebook's size is a limitation. They have over a billion users. Any change they make needs to able to deal with the lowest common denominator.

You can deliver value to niche markets by focusing on their needs & workflow. The "niches" can be millions of people doing a defined scope of tasks.

Re: Show HN: Journi, a free travel journal iPhone app

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Post by iaskwhy »

Congratulations on having it available, good luck!

I haven't tried it yet but I've read the site. How are you going to monetise it?

Bug report: FAQ text on Windows with Chrome: http://imgur.com/bnJYG4V (the font is very small and it's not a good type for Chrome in Windows)

Re: Show HN: Journi, a free travel journal iPhone app

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Post by lukeqsee »

iaskwhy wrote: post #5

Congratulations on having it available, good luck! I haven't tried it yet but I've read the site. How are you going to monetise it? Bug report: FAQ text on Windows with Chrome: http://imgur.com/bnJYG4V (the font is very small and it's not a good type for Chrome in Windows)

> How are you going to monetise it?

Also my immediate question. I am willing to pay for a service like this to continue (I love traveling and have been looking for a good app to function as a journal). My first thought was basically, "A travel journal is really important to me now and will increasingly become more important to me. How can I guarantee this work/time/life invested will continue for 40 years?"

Re: Show HN: Journi, a free travel journal iPhone app

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Post by markerdmann »

This looks terrific! I was looking for something exactly like this not too long ago. At that time my parents were about to embark on a round-the-world journey, and it was so difficult to find a simple travel blogging app or service for my mom. In the end I set her up with an account on Medium, but even Medium's carefully designed UX was still too awkward, and she never felt completely comfortable with it.

Note to UX designers: if you want to subject your designs to some serious blast testing, make sure to recruit a few 60 to 80 year olds for your user studies!

Re: Show HN: Journi, a free travel journal iPhone app

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Post by elyrly »

lukeqsee wrote: post #6
iaskwhy wrote: post #5

Congratulations on having it available, good luck! I haven't tried it yet but I've read the site. How are you going to monetise it? Bug report: FAQ text on Windows with Chrome: http://imgur.com/bnJYG4V (the font is very small and it's not a good type for Chrome in Windows)

> How are you going to monetise it? Also my immediate question. I am willing to pay for a service like this to continue (I love traveling and have been looking for a good app to function as a journal). My first thought was basically, "A travel journal is really important to me now and will increasingly become more important to me. How can I guarantee this work/time/life invested will continue for 40 years?"

There is no guarantee that your data will be around 40+ years from now unless its physically on your storage. I would like to hear from the founders plan to monetize.

Re: Show HN: Journi, a free travel journal iPhone app

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Post by papauschek »

elyrly wrote: post #8
lukeqsee wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How are you going to monetise it? Also my immediate question. I am willing to pay for a service like this to continue (I love traveling and have been looking for a good app to function as a journal). My first thought was basically, "A travel journal is really important to me now and will increasingly become more important to me. How can I guarantee this work/time/life invested will continue for 40 years?"

There is no guarantee that your data will be around 40+ years from now unless its physically on your storage. I would like to hear from the founders plan to monetize.

The business model is going to be freemium. We're currently evaluating different features to decide which should go into a premium bundle. So we're always happy to hear from our users about their problems and limitations of the app. but basically the idea is to charge for additional storage. hth
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