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Nick Daniels

Portal - Escape around the world with beautiful & immersive ambience

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Portal brings you beautiful and immersive ambience from around the world designed to help improve your productivity, sleep and relaxation. Escape from office noise with world-class immersive audio and surround yourself with light using Philips Hue.

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Nick Daniels
Maker
Hi Product Hunters 👋 I'm really excited to share our app, Portal, with you today as we release V2 featuring a shiny new interface, Philips Hue and Siri shortcuts. The app itself was inspired by my honeymoon where my wife and I spent several weeks camping around New Zealand in a tent. It was an amazing experience falling asleep and waking up in the most beautiful and isolated places and we were incredibly inspired by the beauty of the constantly changing environments. When I got home to London the app started as a personal project to try to bring some of this experience home in a way I could use in my daily life, but it soon became obvious that it was something that others would enjoy too and I joined forces with my brother Tim to help launch the app publicly back in February 2019. It's been a pretty crazy year - it was a slow start, but Apple ended up picking the app up for feature in the App Store which has culminated in us being featured as a demo in Apple Retail Stores over the holidays! We've also recently had our first major press, being named as one of the best apps for mindfulness by The Independent. We hope you enjoy the app and would love to hear any thoughts or feedback you have. Cheers, Nick & Tim
Mariam Yusuf
Congratulations! This is indeed looks a lovely app! I am downloading it atm.
Nick Daniels
Maker
@mariamyusufmy Thanks so much Mariam! Hope you enjoy it and do let us know what you think :)
Abey Koshy Itty
The video gave me all the feels @nickdtech! I wish you launch on Android pretty soon. Can't wait to experience it :)
Nick Daniels
Maker
@abeykoshyitty Cheers Abey! We're having to focus on iOS only for now as we're a tiny team but we do hope we'll be able to release on Android eventually.
Abey Koshy Itty
@nickdtech Yeah, understandable! We're a small team ourselves. I'll surely put the word out to my iOS folks in the meantime! :)
Nick Daniels
Maker
@abeykoshyitty Thanks so much for your support! Yeh it's hard being a small team isn't it - so many things you want to do but just so little time in the day!
Graham Seymour
Oh my god, this is STUNNING. as a Hue mega nerd that loves using them to relax, I'm over the moon.
Nick Daniels
Maker
@seymourgroup So glad you're enjoying it Graham, and do drop us a line if you have any further feedback or things you'd like to see!
Levi Nunnink
Wow. Love the UI design on this. Gorgeous use of pixels. Nice work.
Nick Daniels
Maker
@levinunnink Thanks Levi, yeh it's been a fun project on the design side and I think there's still loads of scope for more to come.
Joel Runyon
Will this be available for mac?
Nick Daniels
Maker
@joelrunyon Hey Joel, yeh we do have plans to release a Mac version eventually, although we're having to focus on iOS first.
Tommy Silver
Beautiful app. By far the best app I’ve used in this category. Absolutely love the Hue integration. Well done!
Nick Daniels
Maker
@tommysilver Cheers Tommy, really appreciate it and so glad to hear the Hue integration's going down well. Lots more still to come on that side of things!
Matea Kofiloska
Good one, keep up the great work :)
Nick Daniels
Maker
@mateakofiloska Thanks so much Matea :)
Colin Smith (EzChile)
Wow. I'm immediately impressed! Really nice soundscapes and visuals - I can't wait to be able to try them out properly later. Also very happy by the 'One time fee' nature of the Premium functions. Top Class!
Nick Daniels
Maker
@colin_smith_ezchile_ Thanks so much Colin! Definitely let us know how it goes later and of course if you have any other feedback once you've used it for a bit longer!
Merrill Reisemberg
Thought you would like it @barbieredouard 😁
Rebecca Ferrao
Hey @nickdtech, I really like this idea. Do roll it out to Android and Windows soon
Nick Daniels
Maker
@rebecca_ferrao Thanks so much Rebecca, we're a very small team so it may take a bit of time for us to get there, but we'll certainly do our best!
Paul Brenson
Awesome idea. Can't wait to try it out with my new Hue bulbs.
Nick Daniels
Maker
@paulbrenson Thanks so much Paul, hope you enjoy it :)
Hannah Banana
looks amazing! :) can't wait to try it.
Nick Daniels
Maker
@hannahbanana Thanks Hannah, hope you enjoy it!
Brett Williams
I have 25 Hue lights in my house currently. Needless to say, I'm going to give this a try. Absolutely gorgeous.
Nick Daniels
Maker
@brettwill1025 Cheers Brett, hope you like it and any feedback just let me know.
H.Murchison
I’ve been happily using Portal since it first came out beautiful in her face and lovely ambience I’m a fan
Davit Martirosyan
beautiful and awesome product!!!
Simon Gabriel
As someone who finds ambient noise to be both productive and important to my mental health, I've tried a lot of apps out there and have been somewhat happy with them, but this has an extra touch and care that I've never seen in those. Absolutely love this and didn't think twice about paying for premium - Also I very much appreciate the one time payment.
Nick Daniels
Maker
@simongabriel Thanks so much Simon, really appreciate it and do drop us a line if you ever have any further feedback or suggestions.