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Fabric — The story of your life that writes itself.
Update: new version available now! http://get.fabric.me
Updated discussion here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fabric-9
Fabric helps you remember the meaningful moments and stories in your life.
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@rrhoover @blader @abdur @nikolayav
I really liked Heyday! Would love to chat with @blader and @abdur.
We've tried to address some of what we thought they were missing. (Actually very much like what we were missing in our initial tests). We try to show as much history on day one as possible, and try to keep it engaging going forward.
@arunv30 @rrhoover @blader @abdur @nikolayav I'd say my core question comes down to what real "problem" is this solving, and for who? Will someone let it run in the background for weeks, months, or years -- with the "hope" that they get value out of it in the future?
@rrhoover Had the same thought. I like some of the lifelogging apps out there, but I haven't seen one that I'd pay for or that I can see earning much revenue...except maybe Swarm/Foursquare. Moves was another decent one...Now Google Maps & Photos do most of these functions for me really well.
This is pretty cool!
Does it show things like Timehop - 'This day last year you did this' ?? that would be cool.
I think products like this will become more and more popular. I watch vlogs but wouldnt dream of doing one myself. Not even a private one, its a bit weird and not a natural thing for me. But I love the fact these people have all this footage and information to look back on with what they were doing, who with etc.
An app like this could be something I could really find useful and hit the spot of documenting my life (the interesting bits anyway), without me having to do all that much!
[EDIT} - love the onboarding too. so smooth. As I am allowing pretty much everything - photos etc to be pulled in.... I'm assuming this is all private and secure unless I choose to share?
Would be cool to have a daily (weekly/customisable) reminder to 'edit' my day - if my mates have sent 30 photos in whatsapp, I dont want them being pulled into my daily story haha
@bentossell
No comment yet, but we may have something to show soon :).
Re: onboarding, we have Sophie Xie (@puffins) to thank for that. We're glad you like it.
@bentossell I agree with Ben! I think either a Timehop integration or product clone would help bring past memories to the forefront. With the amount of notifications we get on a daily basis, I believe users will need a little push to continually look past and reminisce.
This is becoming my usual question for apps and games. :P
When will be the Android version ready-to-use? :)
@kaushikankita12 Ain't that the truth. We had a month or so of devs treating both equally, it was nice.
@kaushikankita12
Know someone that can help us out? :) --> av@fabric.me
@arunv30 @kaushikankita12 @fabric This is the kind of product that makes me wish I had an iPhone. But hey, the wait might be worth it ;)
@kaushikankita12 Not exactly the same but Bindly does similar things. Connect Facebook, Instagram, Swarm, Google Calendar and camera roll and create timeline by people and place. It is only on Android :)
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I love the idea of this
My question would be the privacy of files. What about some files or locations you don't want to be included?
@osayilasisi That's a good question (not critical though) that I'm curious to also know the answer :)
@osayilasisi
You should be able to remove anything from Fabric that you don’t want. You can delete any moment, any visit, and you can stop the location fix for however long you want. (Caveat: we probably still have bugs, but please tell us if we do).
Also, it’s worth noting that Fabric is private by default. You don’t have to share anything with anyone, and you can use it without adding any friends. Nikolay and I both used to work at Facebook, so we know plainly the pain of privacy feeling onerous to the average user.
Lastly, if there’s specific things you’re concerned about, feel free to ping us and we’ll build it in if it makes sense.
@roothlus @osayilasisi Right now the only way to do that is to kill the moment entirely. Coming really soon!
So it autosaves all the things you do and kind of organizes them? It could be cool if you could partner up with some printing services to perhaps have people like print pics, or make collages or even like print a full journal for people to have it shipped to their address in case they want to have it, share it, keep it, or even give it as a gift to someone else perhaps.
To be honest the idea is cool but I doubt this would really catch on. This is basically a pimped up version of Google Maps Timeline where you can see your movements on the map. The map timeline has been there for a while and the only use I have for it so far is if I've forgot my phone somewhere or someone would steel it (hasn't happened yet). Adding friends and photos to this would at most be "funny" to look at a couple of times but you wouldn't use this type of service often I think. But it would be interesting to hear from the makers what value this adds and how initial users are using it?
I love their tagline: " The story of your life that writes itself."
It works in the background and journals my daily locations (I think using FourSquare's database) and overlays photos, instagram / fb feed as well as colocations with my friends.
The current product is interesting, the real fun will happen when I can re-live the past through the lens of time, location or people I was with. Pretty neat.
@danflopes @jain_ankit
That's like a dream of mine. I would love to go to, say, the house where I grew up, and be able to turn a dial and watch my sister take her first steps, her first day in school, her first dance performance. In time, in time :)
Hey Producthunt!
Thanks for posting about us! We’re the crack team of two (and sometimes a half) working on this project end-to-end, so I’m sorry for any answers that seem sleep-deprived.
We hope you like Fabric! We’ve put a lot of time and thought into it, and we hope it lives up to its potential.
And I am the other full body on this team. Thank you, everyone, for checking it out and sharing your thoughts.
Cool app, looking forward to try it out! Quick feedback, some of the buttons are tiny, I suspect the "skip" one was on purpose no? :-)
It seems Apple patented a similar idea back in 2012 – https://www.engadget.com/2012/11...
I guess this focuses more on social integration though.
Anyway, looks cool. Patiently waiting for an Android release... 🙏
Gives me the feels of entering a time machine. The last time I felt these feels was when I downloaded Path years ago. I'm a pretty religious Swarm user and I can see how Fabric may replace the space in my life that Swarm currently occupies. I have very few apps on my phone, but this one might be a keeper.
@cindywu Thanks! Giving you the feels is certainly something we strive to do.
Very cool app. Finds all kinds of hidden Data and connections between your photos and locations that you may not have realized.
@jain_ankit good luck with the product. We played with lots of various things here. Ultimately was not interesting for most people. After collecting several centuries of data people basically go to work/school then home. There is a 49% probability the next place a person will go is home. This people quickly got board. Seeing your friends as work home zombies was not great. Happy to share everything we learned in person and good luck.
Hi, I just downloaded your app and will give it a try, it sure seems to have some nice features but navigation within the app is a bit chaotic. I've been using Moves since 3 years now for the sole purpose of keeping track of the places I've been and would gladly exchange it to your app. However it would be nice to integrate my existing Moves data somehow so the past 3 years of collecting data wouldn't be a total waste. Is there a chance to give us the ability to integrate with Moves?! It would be a killer combination for me! Good luck with the development and adding more features in the future, guys! Oh, and I agree with the other comments about the color scheme, I wish it would be different!
Does It use background location to track all destination? Does it cause high battery using? @nikolayav @arunv30
@ogi_altan @arunv30 Background location: yes. However, intelligently using the iOS hardware is one of our core strengths and it shouldn't significantly impact your battery life. It's a little more taxing if you're constantly moving, but even that will be solved in time. A lot of that credit really goes to the iOS core OS and location teams as well as their hardware people.
Hey guys, a pretty late update to this thread. Check out our latest version: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
We've added moment editing, collaboration, and a personal search engine. Would love your feedback!
Really impressive! Would love to download the app immediately. Good luck to the team behind this awesome thing! Waiting to unveil the story of my life that writes itself. :-)
Really like this so far. Interested to see what you can do with this data. What's next?
@dillon_carter A lot in the pipeline, stay tuned via Twitter @fabric_app, our Medium blog https://medium.com/@fabric.me/in..., or Facebok page https://www.facebook.com/fabrica...
I tried it for a day.. Seemed like a great idea but it took forever to load and was very glitchy. I have used Heyday and honestly this seemed too slow.
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