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James Koole — Product Manager, Hover.com

It's about time they natively supported this. I'm hopeful they will do something about the text/quote posts next, and maybe crack down on re-gramming too.

5 2015-03-23T10:12:27.989-07:00

Philip I. Thomas — Explorer and Engineer

I'm getting a notice that it is unavailable in the US App Store

2 2015-03-23T10:17:21.313-07:00

Mike Krieger — Co-founder, Instagram

@philipithomas here's a direct link: https://appsto.re/us/X3jQ5.i

5 2015-03-23T10:54:58.590-07:00

Scott Stephens — Product Designer, The App Business

I'd love to be able to upload photo sets to Instagram, they recently started to let brands do this: http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/4...

Hopefully Layout doesn't stop them bringing that feature to all users in the future.

2 2015-03-23T10:43:07.645-07:00

Ryan Hoover — Product Hunt

Congrats on the launch, @mikeyk. Why did you decide to build this as a separate app vs. bundling into Instagram?

5 2015-03-23T10:47:18.567-07:00

Mike Krieger — Co-founder, Instagram

@rrhoover mostly to keep our main app production flow as simple as possible, and we can learn more quickly with it as a separate app.

10 2015-03-23T11:08:37.664-07:00

Bram Kanstein — Community @ Product Hunt

@rrhoover @mikeyk But you guys do have a lot of data right? Obviously there are a lot of people who post collages etc. - eg you can validate if a new "feature" like collages is a good idea to put in the main app?

upvote 2015-03-23T11:20:42.944-07:00

Ryan Hoover — Product Hunt

@mikeyk that makes a lot of sense. Although you're a mobile-focused company, I'm curious if you use the web to test new ideas and if you have plans to create more web-centric photo experiences.

2 2015-03-23T11:21:51.078-07:00

Ben Halpern — CTO of Texts.com

@rrhoover @mikeyk @bramk I feel like even if it's what people want, it is not necessarily what's best for the experience. I don't really want to scroll through even smaller photos then are already served on my phone. I think that for Instagram, collages are behavior they would like to discourage, but this new app is them saying that as long as people would be going to find a separate app anyway, might as well be ours.

2 2015-03-23T11:48:08.045-07:00

jonathan — co-founder, rocketcode.io

mannn.....the UX is so natural. everything works exactly like you think / wish it would. legit AF.

3 2015-03-23T10:50:54.985-07:00

Mike Krieger — Co-founder, Instagram

@pomajp thanks :)

upvote 2015-03-23T11:06:38.507-07:00

Jeff Soo — Product Designer, Oculus

Extremely excited by this @mikeyk! Seems like they're setting up for a suite of photo/video tools. Quantity of content is great, but quality content will be killer. Pairing unique tech, like Hyperlapse, with their innovative UX and flows, https://speakerdeck.com/mikeyk/s..., I'd be more inclined to use IG's services than many third-party ones.

1 2015-03-23T10:55:51.301-07:00

Lukas Fittl

@mikeyk I really enjoyed the talk you gave at Warm Gun a few years back, on how your Design Thinking know-how helped with Instagram and how you applied it in a simple fashion.

How does ideation / prototyping / etc process work inside Instagram nowadays?

How do you decide if a new idea has potential?

2 2015-03-23T11:18:59.577-07:00

Mike Krieger — Co-founder, Instagram

@lukasfittl lots of UX research, quantitative analysis, and prototyping at first, then validating as much as we can with everything from paper to hi-fi prototypes.

3 2015-03-23T11:57:53.879-07:00