Hey @vjekoskarica, Apple Photos and Google photos are utily app, we strongly differentiate ourself building a social app with interactions between users around their memories.
They are working on this memories subject, but they see it as a feature of a bigger product, we see this feature as a whole social product.
And about the tech, we differentiate with emotional deep learning approaches and have more design freedom.
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I don't know about Google Photos, but iOS Photos has shared albums, likes, comments and notifications. How is that not "social"?
@vjekoskarica@mathieuspiry@elfitz_ Hi ElFitz ! That's social, but it's not the main feature of their product, whereas in Zyl, it's all about memories, that you discover day after day with your friends. If I had to make an analogy I would say it’s like comparing Fast Food and Haute-Cuisine : In both you get beef, lettuce, sauces… But how you put things together matters. So I would love to say that we try to make memories delightful 😉
Hi guys,
Let's be honest, you take many photos but don't do anything with 99% of them.
Your friends do that too.
And yet, this huge amount of photos contains so much emotions, all lost in the depth of our phones.
We've been on a mission to use these photos from the past in a social app for the past 3 years. Zyl is now the closest thing to a social network built on your photo gallery and your friends' ones.
We understood the weakness of camera roll ⇒ we have too many photos and it's impossible to go in the past manually. Big photo utility apps out there try to bring back memories to their users but we felt there was too much friction in reliving and sharing these memories (often limited to anniversaries).
So we spent more than 2 years working on our tech stack that is now able to score the level of emotion your photos can provide to you and your friends in the present. One of our main challenges was to embed our deep learning models on-device to protect our users's privacy.
Each day, Zyl selects ONE of your best memories and shows it to you through a gorgeous story.
And then, it's where the magic happens: you share it with your friends that were part of this moment and they can react or complete the story with their own photos, in a fun and very engaging experience.
At the end, Zyl aims to build the social graph of your memories, being the quickest access to your history and the one you lived with the people you care about.
Looking forward hearing from you all.
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What do you do about sad memories. That’s the worst on Facebook when you’ve recently lost someone and they hit you with a memory with them in it. Are you doing anything to mitigate this?
@terryatvotingsmarter That's a tough subject. Yes we worked on it. After seeing a sad or even a bad memory, you can delete it and the app will ask you why in order to optimize the kind of memories it will show you in the future
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@mathieuspiry it would be cool if you could tag places, people, dates, and pets that you want reminders of. But the shouldn’t be permanent because as you grieve you want/need those memories.
This is actually an interesting concept - I'd certainly love my future family to be able to look back in time and understand who I was, what I did, and the legacy I wanted to leave behind!
@mgk4313 Hi Martin ! Legacy is a way to use memories that we are also exploring, as of today Zyl is not designed for “transmission” but more as a way to stay connected with your friends/family on a day to day basis. But still it might be coming in a near future 🙂
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Great product! Fun icebreaker to reach out to friends I get to see less these days :)
@basheerak Thank you 🥰 Everyday, Zyl AI-builds a story with a set of your photos from the past. When you share this story via a link with your friend(s) through whatsapp/messenger/..., the memory is added to their app and they can complete the story with their photos from the same moment (the app suggests the photos to add). Welcome collaborative stories ⚡️Very soon, people in the same Zyl (= memory) will be able to react with zylmojis and vocal reactions to photos.
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