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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
Excuse my language but this is shit-hot Great choice of background music in the video too 🔥
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@bentossell "People took REAL photos, printed on actual paper."
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Will Schwarz@wpschwarz · Media Operations, Kin Community
@rrhoover @bentossell There was a time when pictures didn't move?!
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@rrhoover wtf is that?!
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Hugo Fauquenoi@hfauq · user success @twistappteam @todoist 🚀
@bentossell Took me a while to remember the song! https://youtu.be/atEx6ZOX51s
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Tamas Ratkai@tamasratkai · CEO at FleetYou | CMO at EU-Solar
@rrhoover @bentossell OMG this just sounds so unreal! :D:D:D Like before the cars people were riding horses. Funny as hell!
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Bryant Peng@bryantpeng · Product Designer
@bentossell Xaphoon's definitey getting a big royalty check
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Ross Rojek@sacbookreviewer · CTO, GoLocalApps.com, Apptoolkit.io
@rrhoover @bentossell You kids make me feel old. Get off my lawn before I go back in the house and pick up my phone that's attached to a wall and call the police.
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Joshua Dance@joshdance · Engineer, Product Manager, athlete
So this is not available yet?
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@joshdance It's rolling out now on both app stores
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Nikunj Kothari@nikunj · Senior PM, Shyp
Amazing, love love the video! @dflieb any reason this is put in a standalone app instead of integrated with Google Photos? Do we expect to see more standalone apps from Google Photos?
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Wojtek Witkowski@dubstrike · Rayfeed
@nikunj @dflieb Classic Google. Probably a different team working on each app.
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@nikunj We think that scanning photos isn't something you'll do daily -- it's more like something you'll do a handful of times when you get access to the printed photos. So it didn't make much sense to incorporate directly into Google Photos. Plus, this lets us offer PhotoScan to people who aren't yet using Google Photos.
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William Pitcher@wmpitcher · Founder, Pitcher Group
@nikunj @dflieb probably because you don't need it nearly as often as a regular photos app.
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@nikunj We'll do separate apps if/when it makes sense, but no specific plans atm.
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@dubstrike @nikunj Nope, it's us :)
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Nikunj Kothari@nikunj · Senior PM, Shyp
@dflieb That makes sense. I really liked Motion Stills and saw you recently integrated that with the main app. My initial thought was Google Photos is going to build standalone apps and then integrate with the main app as they become popular which is why I asked the question. Similar to what Instagram is doing with Boomerang and Layout
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@nikunj Yeah, I think if we saw a large overlap b/w PhotoScan users and Google Photos users, we'll at least think about a tighter integration. But only if we think it's good for users.
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Mariana Montes de Oca@heymarimon · Professional Curious Person
How was this not a thing already? bye iPhone, I like where this pixel is going.
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Tom Klaver@klavr · Product Designer at Lightspeed
@heymarimon They released it for iPhone and Android haha
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Matt Gardner@thatmattgardner · Co-Founder, RouteThis.com
Does the Play Store link fail for anyone else?
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@thatmattgardner It's rolling out, so might take a bit
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Logan Chadde@loganchadde · PMM, Google Photos
@thatmattgardner should be available now: https://goo.gl/xeHOrj
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Matt Gardner@thatmattgardner · Co-Founder, RouteThis.com
@loganchadde Thanks!
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Lewis Holland@thewhizkids · CEO, DiscountIF
@dflieb awesome video and looking forward to using it!.
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Tom Bielecki@tombielecki · Cofounder, PrintToPeer
Pretty cool! I wonder if it works on documents too, I know that's not an intended use case though. What it does: • Detects edges to rotate and correct perspective • Removes glare What it doesn't do: • Remove dust and scratches I'm still waiting for Google Photos/Snapseed to get some kind of noise reduction
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@tombielecki Dust and scratches are definitely things we're studying.
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Tom Bielecki@tombielecki · Cofounder, PrintToPeer
@dflieb Last week I was scanning photos and trying to recover them in Photoshop. The "Dust & Scratches" tool worked surprisingly well. The other major step was removing fading.
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Antonin LAPICHE@airlikidh2 · Product Design @ Orange
@tombielecki I like to use Office Lens for documents and whiteboard: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...
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Yoji@nijikokun · Fullstack Engineer
@dflieb @tombielecki This would be amazing, look into reading the IR channel :)!
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Wayne Lewis Jr.@wayneux · User Experience Manager
@airlikidh2 @tombielecki Or CamScanner -- One of the original whiteboard scanning apps and it's awesome!
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Nicholas Perry@ultimape
@tombielecki I've been using office lense (microsoft) and letting google photos grab them off the phone directory as a location to backup, works a treat for documents and stuff like whiteboards.
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Alan Cassinelli@alancassinelli · Sr. Strategic Copywriter at Zembula.com
Perfect for digitally capturing polaroid photos so you you can Instagram them :)
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Sam Wilkinson@sammycdubs · Astrophysicist, European Space Agency
@dflieb Are there any plans on applying the underlying technology to document scanning? Scanning cards, passports etc is super painful with every app I've tried.
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@sammycdubs We're focused on photos but it works pretty well on any rectangular image
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Sam Wilkinson@sammycdubs · Astrophysicist, European Space Agency
@dflieb How does the image processing handle height? (e.g. Photo with curled edges)
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@sammycdubs We haven't invested too much in severely curled edges, but I think there are things we can do.
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Agusti Fernandez Pardo@schpn
@sammycdubs Scanbot it's the only one that I still have installed after iPhones and years have passed, dont use it that much though
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RoryBro@rorybro · CEO, gifs.com
@dflieb - great video, and a kickass product to boot. I think the scanner is really innovative - reminds me of holding down to shoot videos type of innovation.
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Seb Jachec@iamsebj · Studying, coding, designing, gaming.
Out of interest, does photo processing happen on device/offline or online?
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@iamsebj It all works offline. Why? Well, when you go home to grandma's and want to scan all those old photos, what are the chances the internet is blazing? :)
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Seb Jachec@iamsebj · Studying, coding, designing, gaming.
@dflieb Awesome. Makes sense, just had to check, thanks! :)
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jeff!@the_real_jw · larry bird parody account
@dflieb is there any other privacy or data capturing info to be aware of?
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Melissa Monte@melissamonteee · Director of Media & Startup Growth
It's perfect that this app was released the day I got to my grandparents' house to visit. Will definitely be trying this out.
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
@melissamonteee Release timing was important for us for exactly that reason -- we want to make lots of family heroes over the holidays.
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David Lieb@dflieb · Product Lead, Google Photos
Here's a great video explaining the tech at a high level:
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Narendra Rocherolle@narendra · CEO, Peck, Inc.
@dflieb Does this let you assign date and location to the scan?
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Steven Diffey@stevendiffey · Senior Project Manager
@narendra @dflieb You can edit the date/time once uploaded to Google Photos
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Aneela@ak310i · Entrepreneur
@dflieb this is great to back up old prints. But the bigger issue is digital photos are stuck and essentially any app is a graveyard. Does googlephotos have integrations to make printed scrap books. I dont want my 3yo staring at a computer screen. And honestly neither do i!
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Ross Rojek@sacbookreviewer · CTO, GoLocalApps.com, Apptoolkit.io
@dflieb Really spectacular job. My wife will be all over this once the holidays are over.
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Daylen@askdaylen · Student and Windows Insider in Vancouver
@ak310i Images on Google Photos can be uploaded to Google Drive in the app. Many photobook services allow photos to be uploaded via Google Drive.
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Dima Blover@dimablover · CEO at itmeo.com, UI /UX
Wow. It's blow me eyes. Fantastic, my archive photos will never be lost again.
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Alexander Isora 🌀@alexanderisora · Phoenix Startup creator, developer
Gonna scan them all! 💃
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Joshua Dance@joshdance · Engineer, Product Manager, athlete
Direct download link - https://geo.itunes.apple.com/app...
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Ellen Thuy Le@ellenthuyle · Product Marketing, Google
Direct link to the Play store: https://goo.gl/8I6YFw
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Patrick Wang@junesix · accounts, livefyre
That sucking sound is a bunch of photo scanning companies disappearing. Though to be fair, that industry was always a bet against the advancement of technology.
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Christopher Searles@chrisasearles · President, Searles Media
Awesome @dflieb love it. What's the timeline on a legitimate Photos API?
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Austin Sandmeyer@as_austin · Thinker/Student/Rockstar
This product video is 🔥! 🙌 💯/💯
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