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Gestalt

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A quiet photo journal. Post like Instagram, minus the feed.

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A quiet photo journal. Post like Instagram, minus the feed.

2 followers

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Pick a photo, add a few words, post. Each entry lands on your own dated journal page on the web. No likes, followers, algorithm, or ads. Works offline and publishes when you reconnect. Bring your own domain if you like. iPhone, with a 14-day free trial.

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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Aaron, and I built Gestalt for myself first.

I kept an outdoor blog, and posting to it from my phone was always a chore. Posting to Instagram took ten seconds — but came with a feed, likes, and an algorithm I didn't want. Gestalt answers one question: what if posting a photo to your own blog was as easy as posting to social?

How it works

Pick a photo, add a few words if you like, post. One tap from your library, the camera, or any app that shares to Photos.
It lands on your own dated journal at stillgestalt.com/yourname, in order, with an About page and RSS feed.
No likes, follower counts, algorithm, or ads. Nothing to chase.
Works with no signal: entries queue offline and publish when you're back.
Optional: one daily reminder at a time you choose, and your own domain for an unbranded photo blog.

See one: stillgestalt.com/advoutside is a live sample journal.

Pricing: $2.99/month or $29.99/year through Apple, 14-day free trial. A custom domain is a $29.99/year add-on.

iPhone only for now. I'd love to hear what would make this your daily habit — and what you'd want from the journal page itself.

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9d ago

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5d ago

New Feature: Hashtag Filter Menu

Today I pushed one new feature:

A Hashtag filter menu on the web view of a journal. On the same row with the Journal / Grid toggle, but aligned left, you'll see a '#'. Click / tap it to open a filter menu with all the hashtags used across all posts on your journal. Hashtags are sorted most common to least common; click one to view just the posts tagged with that hashtag.

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6d ago

New features: Grid View & Hashtags

Today I pushed two new features on the web side:

A toggle on the web journal that lets you switch between the full journal view and a photo grid view. Clicking on an image in the grid view takes you into that post, where you can see all the photos from that same post and open the photo viewer if desired.
Automatic hashtag recognition and formatting. The website will now automatically convert text hashtags into links so you can see all the photos on a given hashtag in one view. There's no special hashtag treatment in the poster app...just type your #hashtags inline or at the bottom of your post, and the website will make them clickable and generate hashtag views.

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8d ago

Will you ever make this more social?

As a guiding philosophy, I'm building to avoid the tyranny of the influencer algorithm. I say that tongue-in-cheek, of course. But, the algorithm really can steal time from you.

With that in mind, there will never be an algorithm-driven combined feed of posts from different accounts. What I might do, though, is make it so that it's easier to find other Gestalt accounts you might be interested in, and allow you to add accounts you want to keep tabs on to a group or circle of accounts that you feel close to. The idea being that you can check in on them from time to time (still probably not in any kind of combined feed), so it becomes easy to curate an interest community without being distracted by the BS that takes you down a rabbit hole.

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p/gestalt-2

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5d ago

New Feature: Hashtag Filter Menu

Today I pushed one new feature:

A Hashtag filter menu on the web view of a journal. On the same row with the Journal / Grid toggle, but aligned left, you'll see a '#'. Click / tap it to open a filter menu with all the hashtags used across all posts on your journal. Hashtags are sorted most common to least common; click one to view just the posts tagged with that hashtag.

p/gestalt-2

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6d ago

New features: Grid View & Hashtags

Today I pushed two new features on the web side:

A toggle on the web journal that lets you switch between the full journal view and a photo grid view. Clicking on an image in the grid view takes you into that post, where you can see all the photos from that same post and open the photo viewer if desired.
Automatic hashtag recognition and formatting. The website will now automatically convert text hashtags into links so you can see all the photos on a given hashtag in one view. There's no special hashtag treatment in the poster app...just type your #hashtags inline or at the bottom of your post, and the website will make them clickable and generate hashtag views.

p/gestalt-2

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8d ago

Will you ever make this more social?

As a guiding philosophy, I'm building to avoid the tyranny of the influencer algorithm. I say that tongue-in-cheek, of course. But, the algorithm really can steal time from you.

View all

Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Aaron, and I built Gestalt for myself first.

How it works

Pick a photo, add a few words if you like, post. One tap from your library, the camera, or any app that shares to Photos.
It lands on your own dated journal at stillgestalt.com/yourname, in order, with an About page and RSS feed.
No likes, follower counts, algorithm, or ads. Nothing to chase.
Works with no signal: entries queue offline and publish when you're back.
Optional: one daily reminder at a time you choose, and your own domain for an unbranded photo blog.

See one: stillgestalt.com/advoutside is a live sample journal.

Pricing: $2.99/month or $29.99/year through Apple, 14-day free trial. A custom domain is a $29.99/year add-on.

iPhone only for now. I'd love to hear what would make this your daily habit — and what you'd want from the journal page itself.