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Colas Kerkhove
@colaskirschoff
Hey everyone,
This is Capsule the app that helps you remember everywhere. Capsule is an AI powered iOS app that helps track your movements through the city and connects the photos you take to the places you've been. Check Capsule for the name of that dive bar you hit last Friday night, or to find photos you took at the basketball game on the weekend. The app also keeps a weekly digest quantifying your week looking at metrics like the average time you leave the office to the number of places you visited in the evening.
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Cem Kozinoglu
@cemkozinoglu · CEO/Founder @SlashKeyboard
@colaskirschoff hey Colas, this looks awesome. Love what you guys are doing with Snips as well! Quick question, will Capsule be running in background and that will add up to my weekly digest? Or I have to take pictures of whatever I am up to for Capsule to aggregate data?
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Colas Kerkhove
@colaskirschoff
@cemkozinoglu Thx for the kind words :) No need to take pictures every now and then, the moments will be recorded even if you do not open the app every day. Yes the app will run in the background but has amazingly low battery footprint. Note that the more you help the app know which places you were at, the more your weekly digest will be relevant.
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saarim zaman
@poolnoodle93 · integrity analyst @ kickstarter
@colaskirschoff is this just like swarm minus social?
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Colas Kerkhove
@colaskirschoff
@poolnoodle93 You're not the first person to make this comparison, @rrhoover also compared our product to Swarm but there are a couple major differentiators:
- We don't record or see any user data, Capsule is Private by Design
- We use your knowledge graph (contacts, email, calendar) to bring more clarity to your location and enhance results
- We use passive tracking: we do not require the user to say that he stopped somewhere at some point.
- We also show a weekly digest for the quantified self/bullet journal fans out there!
We would love for you to check it out and hear what you think!
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Stephen Callender
@sbcallender · Co-Founder, Videotape
@colaskirschoff Very cool! But oy, that's a lot of App Store competition for 'capsule.' Isn't that annoying? Anyway, I just got it and am looking forward to seeing it after a week's worth of activity!
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Stephen Callender
@sbcallender · Co-Founder, Videotape
@colaskirschoff Found a typo. The empty screen used under Weekly Digest: It says, "Their isn't enough data to build your weekend digest." Their should be There. :-)
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Hadi Farnoud
@hadifarnoud · CEO of Kamva
@colaskirschoff where is the AI part? people tend to call everything AI these days
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Colas Kerkhove
@colaskirschoff
@hadifarnoud the model that is responsible for associating places to stops uses machine learning. It learnt not too associate too much at the beginning and will improve itself the more you edit the places
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Colas Kerkhove
@colaskirschoff
@sbcallender my bad, will update the wording, thx for noticing ! As for the competition, again we have major differences that we aim to leverage ;)
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Bo Wang
@bluemonk482 · Researcher, AI, NLP
@colaskirschoff Android app pls?
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Colas Kerkhove
@colaskirschoff
@bluemonk482 this is our first shot, only iOS for now, but if people like it why not !
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Stephen Callender
@sbcallender · Co-Founder, Videotape
@colaskirschoff Sure! I'm sorry, I didn't mean that type of competition. I meant that the name "Capsule" is used quite a bit. As far as I know, your concept is rather unique. Just named some of my locations and set my home and work places this morning. :-)
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Brett Goldstein
@thatguybg · Corp Dev, Google
@colaskirschoff what is the song in the background of the video?? so cool
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Colas Kerkhove
@colaskirschoff
@thatguybg Henri Texier - Les "Là-bas":
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Nick Braver
@nbraver · Product Designer
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Google Maps Timeline. I already have my entire history there starting fro 2012 - and its more accurate with locations and attaching photos from Google Photos to my locations. It even gives me trip history and allows me to download/delete all of my data at any point.
@colaskirschoff How is your team looking to make Capsule different?
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Colas Kerkhove
@colaskirschoff
@nbraver One major difference is the Privacy by Design. Everything runs on device.
Also we want to go further than just showing where you go every day, in particular we started implementing what we call a weekly digest, and there is more to come.
If privacy is not an issue for you, true that Google Maps Timeline on Android is very accurate. It's less true on the iPhone though :)
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Nick Braver
@nbraver · Product Designer
@colaskirschoff I have an iPhone and can confirm that the accuracy is not as great as on Android. Also, Google Maps Timeline does not have an app for iOS. So you have the upper hand there, and because of that I will be using Capsule.
I'll post an update later with my thoughts after using Capsule for a while. Great looking application, wish you the best of luck :)
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Colas Kerkhove
@colaskirschoff
@nbraver Great ! Happy to answer your feedback anytime soon :)
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