The app looks beautiful (see Instagram's announcement here).
Downloading now...
EDIT: Just created my first hyperlapse. Initial impressions:
1) So so simple. After the quick tutorial and camera permission prompt, you can start filming. No registration required, no feed of videos.
2) No filters. Again, going with #1, there are no filters as you might expect from an app coming from Instagram. This makes sense as the filters can be applied afterward once shared.
3) Facebook and Instagram sharing. Hyperlapse only gives you two option to share: FB and IG. You cannot post to Twitter, send via txt, etc. Hyperlapse is very much designed to enhance the Facebook ecosystem without cannibalizing consumption in its other apps.
@liveink yes, good point. Mindie 2.0 added fast and slow motion "filters" which similarly make a mundane video interesting.
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@rrhoover #3 can probably be fixed with appropriate middleware. Main issue is that you have to convert the MP4 to GIF then Twitter will convert that back to MP4, also there's nominally a 3MB size limit for GIFs according to the Twitter API docs.
@rrhoover On #2, the way we see this is that cinematic stabilization + add-ons like Hyperlapse are to video in many ways what filters were to photos when we first launched; make things look good beyond what you'd expect given the camera sensor and have a great effort-to-output ratio
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@rrhoover I've been using the app this AM and to be honest, I'm having trouble finding interesting use cases for it. In your every day life, finding something that is "worthy" of a time lapse actually seems like a high bar. Photos are a snap shot in time and have a much lower bar for what is "interesting", but a video / time lapse has a much higher bar.
Does it mean something special when the founder of product hunt hunts something?
Oh and this is pretty awesome. Except I stopped watching my friends gopro videos two years ago so I hope these end up different!
@ghobs91 we wanted to keep the capture experience super-simple, which is hard inside IG where photos & non-hyperlapse video sharing are already present. The goal here was standalone so you can open straight to camera, jump in and start recording without missing a moment.
@ghobs91 It's a new product, not an addition to Instagram. Unbundling refers to breaking apart overly complex apps, this is another in their suite of apps.
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@ghobs91@mikeyk a couple months back I imagined what this feature might have looked like natively within IG. I created a spec time lapse feature - see: bit.ly/1swmWU2
Really awesome to see this idea executed. Different than I had imagined and certainly much simpler.
@zackshapiro this one came out of a Pitch-a-thon we ran earlier this year. The goal was to get some interesting ideas for creative tools both inside and outside IG. One project that came out of that were our editing tools which we shipped a few months ago (highlights/shadows/etc); another one is Hyperlapse, which the two engineers worked on during an FB-wide hackathon and got a bunch of help from design & PM (and sound design!) to get shipped. We spent most of the last few months cutting features to get it into the simplest experience we could find and had nothing else we could take away.
@brockneilson No they did not acquire it from us. Our code was entirely based on making Hyperlapses from Google Street View imagery. So our code uses the data embedded in the API to do stabilization and some other things.
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Is it just me, or would it be really awesome if the app store supported more than just still images?
Perfect extension of the Instagram brand. Instagram stands for beauty, and cool tools that make it more achievable for the average person. This is back in their sweet spot, and I bet even if it's not a huge hit it will still be much more popular than features that stray away from their core territory (like direct photo messaging)
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This is my first time writing anything on PH although I've avidly followed it for 9 months. Hyperlapse is fantastic. Easy to use, beautiful design, simple and focused. It's a great move for Instagram. I also like that they decided to make it portrait; filmed on iphone to be viewed on iphone (like Mindie).
@jesiahbonney thanks Jesiah! It works in both orientations; if you're sending out to IG then it's square anyway so direction of capture should just be what feels most natural (the only hard thing in making Hyperlapses is holding a phone for long enough)
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@mikeyk have you ever considered make an app focused on making stop motion videos?
@mikeyk curious why you started without a social feed. Social was one of the things that set Instagram apart in the early days, and allows a community to build around this new art form. If you were to build this before instagram existed, do you think you would have done it the same, or add a social feed right from the start?
@Anderson760 this is a pretty specific medium inside video, so I think it makes way more sense as feeding into existing networks (we share to IG & FB). Then the #hyperlapse hashtag plus the "how did you make that?!" questions in the feed help drive folks to check out the app.
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