@rickyyean We chose to build a dedicated device because our current devices don't solve the problem of our photo fragmentation. Most people use multiple apps and mainly their 4 inch screen phones to look at their photos. With our dedicated all in one device, Joy provides: - a massive 13.3" screen for beautiful layouts of your photos and videos - wireless charging for easy access - access to unlimited cloud storage so you never run out of space and your memories are always automatically backed up - seamless software so you can actually make photo albums again - a unique and functional book shaped design so you can hold the Joy Album with one hand and in your lap

@itsalanchan @ev Congratulations on the launch. I love seeing innovation in this space. Can't wait to get one.

@itsalanchan @ev wait reserve one, when do you ship?

@itsalanchan congrats on the launch and joining the obvious family. There's a trail of skeletons on the path to easily organizing and sharing photos, but your angle and position is one to envy

@george_dy Thanks George - really appreciate it. Will need to pick your brain soon on software challenges!!

@abdur congrats on shipping. Truly an amazing feat.

@saranormous We allow you to easily make albums by yourself or with friends. Also, you can pull in existing photos from Facebook, Dropbox, Flickr, Google Photos. We are platform agnostic!

@brianjlederman Thanks Brian - appreciate your kind message. Hope we can bring some Joy to your family and friends.

@pentak3 Thanks Karthik. Your support means a lot!

@gomattymo We have an amazing early bird special right now - Joy Album will retail for $499 but is currently 40% off for a limited time. Get one while they're hot and only $299! https://joy.co :)

@itsalanchan @gomattymo Why would I spend $300+ on this when I can buy a cheap tablet for $60 and install software on that to make it an interactive picture frame?

@tonybrix @gomattymo Great question Tony. Most tablets that are $60 are cheap...for a reason... Small screen, poor resolution, plastiky looking and feeling and working... Don't get me wrong, I love an inexpensive device and a tablet that I can check email and check Instagram with great. But we are all taking beautiful 10 MB photos now that deserve a bigger interface and beautiful layouts to tell a better story (vs. a 4x4 square). Joy is 13.3" full HD touchscreen made with the best materials and includes a wireless charging stand (we have proprietary wireless charging and the device has no ports and no wires at all). The JoyOS has a bunch of proprietary software that you can't get anywhere else like StoryTime (voice call with screen sharing of your photo albums). Most tablets that are over 13" are in the $700 to $1000 range so we've actually worked very hard to get our cost down. Last and most importantly, unlike a tablet, the Joy Album has no lock-screen, no other apps and no personal information that would be intended for your eyes only. Joy is built for the singular purpose of being the dedicated home for your photos and videos. Friends and family don’t have to be shy to pick up the Album, instead it is designed for interaction right off the wireless stand, inviting friends to pick it up and browse through any time.

@pddro Sorry for the delayed response Pedro! Was up all night for 36 hours for our launch and crashed hard :) To answer your question, you can all have the Joy app and push to a single Joy Album. Simple private group sharing at its finest! We also have a great feature called StoryTime so you can have voice calls between 2 Joy Albums with screen share so you can literally feel like you're sitting next to Grandma and Grandpa on the couch - sharing stories and laughs. Let me know if you have any other questions.

@schneider thank you! Curious to hear how you enjoy your photos today? Just on your phone? print?

@davidsfeng yes we're providing a 40% off early bird discount. The device can do a lot of things - share photo albums, watching personal videos, telling stories on the couch with loved ones, and my favorite feature - StoryTime! TM :) StoryTime lets you have a voice call between 2 Joy Albums while screensharing your photos or videos. The person on the other end just sits there as you share your special story and the page just moves in front of them. Feels like magic and it's almost like you're sitting next to your loved one on the couch again - even if they're miles away!

@ev Perhaps I'm the only one that doesn't get this, correct me if I'm wrong Ev and team. 2.4 million tons of electronic waste hit US landfills each year! Of that 2.4 million tons of e-waste, we threw away or recycled 142,000 computers and over 416,000 mobile devices every day! It's not will they throw this away it's when and when they do this coupled with the ipads...it's so much waste! We don't need more devices we need more intelligently developed and executed software that looks at the cloud computing landscape and says hmm this is where I can be impactful and this is where I can also do good for the environment Apple has sold a whopping 282 million iPads since the original debuted in 2010 What's sad is that we are infact the first generation that will not leave this place better off for the next generation and these are things that help to exacerbate the issue. I know you're within your right to literally make stuff just for the hell of it and who cares about the environment Nick...but when you get $2.5 million dollars from a firm that literally said their mission is to primarily fund, and I quote word for word: World-Positive is looking for companies that are built to make positive changes in the world through a fund called Obvious Ventures. Nothing about this screams "world-positive", it's cute and cool but it isn't world-positive. When I think of the 3.5 billion people suffering from Malaria I think of world- positive innovations to offset that, or Ebola. Not a photo album worth $500?!

@tomwilliams Thanks Tom! Our mission at Joy is to bring families and friends closer together.

@antonio_bustamante All great questions! Unlike a tablet, Joy Album has no lock-screen, other apps or personal information that would be intended for your eyes only. Friends and family don’t have to be shy to pick up up the Joy Album. It's always connected, always on display and designed for interaction right off the wireless stand. This makes the Joy Album inviting to pick up and browse through any time. As for digital albums, with no touchscreen and collaborative app, they are not designed for interaction or sharing. We really wanted to bring back the days when gathering around the album was the best! Finally, you can share with any one even if they don't have the Joy Album. They just need an email and will get the shared album in the Joy App or a weblink in their inbox! Jacqueline

@ned_desmond Thanks Ned! I'm a big fan of Mosaic too - but I think one amazing feature Joy has is the ability to play your videos next to your photos in beautiful layouts. We take so much video now but the footage is just stuck on our phones, never to be seen again. Hopefully, Joy can help change that for people like me and you! We like to say "a video is worth a million words..." Just being cheesy - I kid I kid!

@guy_gal Our cofounder @strawbreeeze let us do the whole video shoot at her beautiful home! @heymarylauren was the amazing talent in the video. It's her real family and they were so great to work with!

@gregisenberg Thanks Greg - your family is going to love the Joy Album!