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1-Hour Photo

A camera app, where you wait an hour to see the photo

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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
I've bounced around a similar idea with @thetylerhayes. As @nireyal has written about, the anticipation of the reward (the photo in this case), is sometimes more compelling than when the reward is received. Buffer scratches this for me. When I put something in my Buffer queue, I know it will be shared hours in the future, resulting in socially-driven rewa… See more
Maddie Simens
@maddiesimens · Designer thingy.
Love this concept, it's interesting to see the majority of comments are excited about the "present to your future self" aspect. I actually find the other half of the app to be most interesting — the act of taking a photo. I'm a big fan of old school film photography because the delayed results and limited film cause one to be much, much more thoughtful when… See more
Duncan Blair
@phixx · Marketing Director at Article
This is really interesting. In our early prototype for AlleyOop we had a 1`-hour delay between finishing the film roll and the group participating getting the photos, but we found that it mostly became annoying and distracted from the primary feature of our app (sharing a 'film roll' with friends). Definitely still love the idea of accidentally mixing othe… See more
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Adrian Phillips
@rustydingo · Experience Designer @airbnb.
I was intrigued (albeit a little skeptical) when I first saw this app mentioned on Twitter. I decided to give it a try after reading this in the App Store description: "Nobody gets distracted in the moment by reviewing photos as they're being taken - your special moments remain all about the moments themselves. " More often than not, if I'm taking photos, … See more
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Great thesis