Show HN: myStorify.com - storify your photos

I have my contact details in the profile here.

Just a handful of things:

1. I don't like logging in with my Google Account. I can see that you're using my Google pictures so you're going to need that. I don't like it anyway.

2. I completely don't understand the graph at the left hand side of your pages. Perhaps it's number of photos (but then that info appears twice, right?). Or is it text written? Or is it distance covered? Or is it coolness of the segment? Some information would be nice.

3. Or even better, how about customizing that area? I know you're quite early in development, but I'd expect to see some interaction there.

4. The location was a little off when I loaded my non-geotagged pictures. It placed them somewhere in Slovakia for some reason. After placing one of my segments into Africa, the overall location marker moved to Germany.

5. These little info boxes are cool. Can I do them myself, please?

6. The time line is interesting, but I'd like to customize that a bit better. In my case, there's lots of empty space at the top and the bottom because I arrived on Saturday and left on Tuesday, causing empty weeks there.

Ok, that was a bit of stuff. Don't take is as criticism, I really like the concept, but I'd also like to see it developed a bit more.

1) Login with Google is just a way to make it simpler for us for an MVP (and as you note we need the photos as we don't have a direct photo upload in this product just yet).

2) The graph is a reflection of intensity of the story (basically the more photos you take, the more interesting stuff is going on around you) and it gives you a time context for how things went.

We will definitely add an explanation in the interface.

3) What kind of customization do you mean? Structural (move things around) or cosmetic (colors, etc). Basically the graph is firstly a navigation tool. You click on the event names to move to that moment in all the views of the app (album photo grid/large photo view/album edit mode).

4) The map widget starts centered in Slovakia (center of Europe) for non-geotagged photos. This does not mean that the location was assigned to the album, it is just how the widget renders. (Does it look like we automatically assign the position? Any idea on how the map widget could look to avoid this confusion?)

For geotagged we are of course working on using this information (it is no there yet).

5) It is all about the context (graph - time context, info boxes - POI in the area or related concepts).

6) The problem with empty space in the timeline is that once you start 'stretching' and 'compressing' it, the time axis will stop being homogeneous which sort of ruins the effect of 'at-a-glance' time awareness. If there was a big block of down-time on the holiday, why do you want to mask it by covering the gap in the graph? The representation loses faithfulness that way. But maybe a faithful representation is not that desired here, hmm :-D

Do you think that a free 1 month trial + only premium afterwards would work better in this case than a freemium model?

We figured that there could be a large segment of casual day-trip travelers who like to share a story in a more optimized interface than on facebook. Probably many of these will not pay, but could serve for spreading the word through the freemium model and make the marketing easier.