Dillon Morgan

UNUM - A beautiful, simple, and free photo planner for Instagram

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Dillon Morgan
Million and more thanks to @bentossell for helping a rookie out 😊Soo excited to be on PH 💃🎉 Our story in a snippet: We love Instagram, but we HATED our feed. All we wanted was a simple and beautiful tool to help better tell our story, our journey. UNUM's V1 features to help you visualize and schedule your Insta Feed: -Save and edit drafts -Custom filters -Crop and edit tools -Rotate and rearrange your photos -Tile your photos -Schedule all your pictures at once with Scheduler (or hold picture to post manually) -Save time by adding descriptions to as few or as many photos -Connects to your Insta feed -And more on the horizon 💁 For now, we’re exclusive to iOS, but Android and Web versions are coming soon! 🔨Built for: Instagrammers, start-ups, influencers, brands, etc. Fun fact 🙈: The Latin phrase, “E Pluribus Unum,” means “Out of many, one” which we think sums us up nicely :) Fun fact 2 🙉: “E Pluribus Unum” is found on the back of every U.S. dollar bill! *Hopefully you like it, but if not, then hey at least you know some more random facts 😊 We are so proud to share UNUM with the Product Hunt community and cannot wait to hear from you all!!
Philip
@dillonmorgan22 Great job on the app, however as I was playing around with it, I couldn't really figure out how to schedule a post. When I click on the hourglass, I can select "Time of Day" and "Frequency" but how does it work? Let's say I pick 3x on midday. Does it post the next three images at the same time? And what does morning, midday, evening mean? 😃 Cheers!
Dillon Morgan
@philipkuklis Thank you for your feedback Philip! Our next build will have a tutorial on the scheduler 💃 Hopefully this helps! Each section (Morning, Midday, Evening) have a range of times. So you'll get notified between (morning is 8am - noon, midday is noon to 4, evening is 6 - 10pm) So if you posted 3x on midday, you'll be notified 3x between that time range 😊
ph1lipp3
@dillonmorgan22 @bentossell very promising, I've been looking for a solution for months ! I even create a sketch file in order to curate our content better. Finally an iOS app ! Still a few bugs, but looking forward seeing you squashing them !
Dillon Morgan
@anachronikal thank you so much!!! Ya we're definitely on the hunt for those little buggers 🔎🐛 If you don't mind, we'd love for you to email us (team@unum.la) the bugs or features you'd like to see so you won't have to create any more files 😉
Brian Kidwell
Hey @dillonmorgan22 this is pretty cool! Any plans for being able to manage multiple Instagram accounts at once within the app?
Dillon Morgan
@thebriankidwell thank you!! And yep, that's the next step 😊and it looks like Instagram is now working on that too haha
Varun Goel
@dillonmorgan22 that feature will be a game changer for you and Instagram. Logging in and out of accounts is such a terrible experience right now.
Brian Kidwell
@dillonmorgan22 Yes! That's great to hear. Is there any sort of timeline on this?
Dillon Morgan
@goelv We agree 100% It's so annoying for us too!
Dillon Morgan
@thebriankidwell Couldn't give you an exact date now Brian, but it'll be sooner than you think 😁
Sydney Liu
Feel like a good Instagram scheduler has been needed for a long time now. How should a startup go about using this? Any Instagram strategy tips in terms of filters, types of photos, etc.
Dillon Morgan
@sydney_liu_sl Thanks a lot Syd! UNUM is all about saving startups time. Time to focus on their own product/service, while knowing that their online brand/story won’t be jeopardized. 1) Here’s how we use our own tool to grow our brand: - First we ask the standard questions: Who are we? What do we want to represent? What story do we want to tell? etc. - Then we find and store pictures that fit that description - We upload them to UNUM, edit, filter, rotate, tile, etc. until our feed mirrors our brand - We’ll use the draft feature and compare the two to see which arrangement is better - Add descriptions ahead of time - Schedule them or hold to manually post (if we really wanted to release a picture because of a particular Instagram trend) - And depending on how often you post, you’ve set your Instagram feed days, weeks, even months in advance - Quick and headache free haha, then we go back and work on our product (which is our own tool in this case haha) 2) Tips: What is hot now: fades and single color schemes, but it really depends on your product. I’d definitely play around with the tile feature and weave images in between, it will bring more life to your Instagram feed and set you apart from the rest :)
Kris Borghesan
Wow, love the concept. I'm just downloading the app right now to test it out, this could save me a huge amount of time and really help tell our story! I think my favourite part has to be that you can see everything all at once, just like you would on your instagram feed, so you get to see directly how everything fits together for the bigger picture. Thanks Dillon!
Kris Borghesan
@dillonmorgan22 is it possible to schedule individual posts? It seems like the scheduling applies to every post and then would push them out sequentially on the time of day and frequency. Also, let's say I schedule a post for the evening, would this automatically get posted at that time, or does instagram still need me to physically go in and "accept" the post. I know with other 3rd party integrations to Instagram this is the case.
Dillon Morgan
@krisborghesan Thank you so much for the detailed response! The individual scheduler is going to be an upcoming feature for sure! However, how individual scheduling is done now is pretty time consuming which is why we started with the grouping scheduler 😊In the meantime, you can quickly hold a picture (you want to post on a specific date/time) and post it manually. Unfortunately we, along with other 3rd party integrations, have to play by Instagram's rules: making you physically share it from within the Instagram app. So we lift you up on our shoulders, tell you not to worry, run to the light, and get you as close to the finish line as we can 💁🏁 Then we both celebrate and do it again 👯🎉 Haha hope this helps Kris!
Kris Borghesan
@dillonmorgan22 Ok great! That's what I had presumed, and this definitely answers all of my questions! Thanks again Dillon, great product! I will for sure be using this daily.
Dillon Morgan
@krisborghesan Awesome!! So excited 😁Definitely keep us posted if you have any other questions!
Baard O. Hansen
Deliciously designed. Very excited about this app.
Dillon Morgan
@ibaard You're making us blush 😊Thank you!
C.C. Chapman
Wow have we needed this for a while. Eager for the Android version.
Dillon Morgan
@cc_chapman Glad to hear it :) Curious, would you rather have a web version or android version first?
Dillon Morgan
@cc_chapman gotcha 👌
Roman
Whoah, too competing apps on the same day. So how are you different from Onlypult?
Dillon Morgan
@romanzadyrako haha Roman 😉Well, correct me if I'm wrong @evgeny, but it looks like Onlyput is a designed as a B2B management tool for Instagram. The website and the product are wonderfully designed Evgeny! Great Job 😀Larger companies with a good sized team (think of hootsuite) will find their platform incredibly helpful as it seems really easy to navigate and connect with each other (so there is no duplicates/overlap!). While UNUM is free and more focused on smaller teams, start-ups and the consumers (think of slack) who want to better tell their story by making their feed aesthetically appealing. We wish Onlyput all the best! I think we're more of a compliment to each other rather than a competitor 👯
Ishmael Samuel
Love this product!
Dillon Morgan
@ishthedestroyer UNUM loves Ish 😘
Jack Solomon
Looks pretty cool - how are you going about marketing it?
Dillon Morgan
@byjacksolomon we'lldefinitely be using prime for Instagram, that's for sure 😉
Couper Cox
This was an immediate download for me. I can't wait to really get in there. Best way to provide feedback, @dillonmorgan22 ?
Dillon Morgan
@coupercox Thank you so much Couper! Side note, you're instagram is 🔥 That was an immediate follow for us! And in terms of feedback, fb messaging us from our page (fb/unumapp) or emailing us (team@unum.la) would give you the quickest response time :) And the feedback itself is up to you: cool features you'd want to see, bugs you find 🐞(remember it's our V1 😉), or anything else you feel like sharing. *Note: You can be brutally honest too, we have thick skin haha
Danny Lowney
Downloaded and trying out. I think a couple of things could be made clearer. When I upload an image, I don't know whether it's been submitted to be posted yet. I also don't know when it is going to be posted...? Best of luck. Hope this gets awesome. Then I'll use it every day :)
Dillon Morgan
@dannylowney Hey Danny! Thanks for the feedback, will definitely make those changes in our next build! About scheduling, hopefully this helps: Each section (Morning, Midday, Evening) have a range of times. So you'll get notified between (morning is 8am - noon, midday is noon to 4, evening is 6 - 10pm)
Jean-Marc Ly
I love the name! 😉Def downloading this!
Dillon Morgan
@chubucko thanks Jean 😊Let us know what you think!
Michael Rosenau
@dillonmorgan22 how do you plan to monetize? (Just curious)
Zelenovskaya Nastya
lovely planner! thanks a lot) the best app for planning
Aycan Doğanlar 🦄

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Pros:

Love the app! It's doing what it should do in a simple way. I’m in love with your “What’s New” part on AppStore.

Cons:

In the bottom section UI only has icons and they are not clear. That section needs clearer icons or icons with texts.