Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Xavier, a product designer from Sydney, and Braid started as something personal: I wanted to keep my grandma’s stories. I realised the photos on my phone held the moments, but not the why behind them. And when I asked family about the same photo, everyone remembered it a little differently. So Braid lets you pick a photo, tell the story behind it by voice or text, then share it so family and friends can add their side. They don’t need to download anything, just open a link. One memory, several perspectives. I’m not a developer by background. I designed Braid and built it natively in SwiftUI with Claude as my build partner, which has been a fun experiment in itself. On privacy: Braid reads your photo library on-device to group photos by date and location. Nothing is uploaded by default. Your memories (tags, text and audio) stay on your phone unless you sign in, which saves them to our server so you can access them across devices. Sharing doesn’t need an account: when you share a memory, only that memory and its photos (up to 12) are uploaded so family can open the link and add their side. I’d love your honest feedback: Did getting started make sense without any explanation? Would you actually send a memory to family to add their version? What would make you come back to revisit memories? Thanks for taking a look 🙏

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What’s a family photo whose story only one person remembers?

Hi everyone I m Xavier, maker of Braid, launching here tomorrow.

Braid started when I noticed my phone held thousands of family photos but almost none of the stories behind them. When I asked relatives about the same photo, everyone remembered it a little differently, and some stories only lived in one person s head.

So I m curious: do you have a photo like that? One where the real story is with a parent, grandparent or old friend?

And for those who ve tried to capture family stories before (journals, voice memos, apps), what made you stop?

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Capture the stories behind your family photos

Capture the stories behind your family photos

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What’s a family photo whose story only one person remembers?

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What’s a family photo whose story only one person remembers?