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Minoa
Your child's story — a zoomable timeline that never forgets
14 followers
Your child's story — a zoomable timeline that never forgets
14 followers
Minoa is a private digital journal for your child's story. Add photos, videos, milestones and notes. They instantly appear on an interactive timeline you can zoom from birth to today, like Google Maps, but in time. Share with grandparents via a single link. No account needed on their end. No ads, no data selling, servers in Europe. Free to start. Yours forever.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Kévin, solo developer from France and dad of 2 kids.
I built Minoa because I had a problem I couldn't solve with any existing app.
My daughter turned 2, and I wanted to look back at her first year, her first steps, first words, first everything.
Photos scattered across Google Photos, voice notes on my phone, milestones on paper notes I'd lost.
No way to see it all at once.
No story.
Every app I found was either full of ads, stored data on US servers, or was just a photo gallery with no sense of time.
So I built the timeline I wanted.
What makes Minoa different:
→ Interactive zoomable timeline — zoom from years down to a single day. Drag, compress empty periods, see milestones in gold. It's the part I'm most proud of.
→ Privacy-first, Europe only — zero ads, zero tracking, zero data selling. Built after one too many stories about kids'-photo apps getting breached or sold.
→ Share with one link — grandparents see the timeline without creating an account. One link. That's it.
→ Everything on the free plan — photos, videos, audio. Storage-limited, not feature-limited.
🎁 PH exclusive: code PRODUCTHUNT → 1 month of Classic free (first 100 only)
I'd love your feedback — especially on the timeline. Does a zoomable timeline feel like the right way to hold a child's story?
Thank you for being here. — Kévin
Curious about the free tier here. Can you keep adding entries once a kid is older and the library gets huge, or does free only cover a certain number of photos and milestones before you have to pay?
@ufukgrbrmtap Good question, and the honest answer is: storage-limited, not feature-limited. There's no cap on the number of entries or milestones, you can log as many as you want. What's capped is storage, the free plan gives you 50 MB total for photos, videos and audio (all of which are available on free, nothing is locked behind a paywall). As your kid grows and the library gets heavier, you'll hit that 50 MB wall before you hit any artificial "entry limit". When you do, nothing gets deleted, your existing timeline stays exactly as it is, you just can't add new media until you free up space or upgrade. Classic (3.99€/month) takes you to 2 GB if you need the room.
How does the free tier actually work long term, do the photos and videos stay accessible forever or is there a storage cap that eventually pushes you into a paid plan?
@hayrettinj1qm Both, in a way, and I'd rather be precise than vague here. There is a storage cap on free, 50 MB, so yes, a big enough library will eventually push you toward Classic or Premium if you want to keep adding photos and videos. But what's already there stays accessible forever, there's no time limit, no "your account expires after X months" clause, no deletion for staying on free. Hit the cap and you just pause on new uploads until you free space or upgrade, nothing existing disappears. And if you ever want your data out regardless of plan, you can export your full timeline and all your media at any time. That was a deliberate choice, I didn't want "free" to secretly mean "rented".
The zoomable timeline is genuinely fun to scroll through, way more engaging than a regular photo album. Also love that grandparents can just open a link without signing up for anything.
@lyasczpu Thanks İlyas! The "more engaging than a regular photo album" comparison means a lot, that contrast with a flat album is the whole point of building it as a zoom instead of a scroll. Appreciate you flagging the share link too, keeping it frictionless for grandparents was non-negotiable for me.
The zoomable timeline feels surprisingly intuitive, almost like scrolling through a little personal archive of moments. Grandparents will love being able to drop in without signing up for anything.
@muharremsae1ry "A little personal archive of moments" is a nice way to put it, thank you :) And yes, that's the idea, mamie shouldn't need an account just to see her grandkid's first steps, one link and she's in (it's password-protected too, so it stays private, just not behind a signup wall).
Finally tried this with my daughter's photos and the zoomable timeline is so satisfying, way better than scrolling through a messy camera roll. Love that grandparents can peek without signing up for anything.
@sevda250525 Really happy it clicked for you and your daughter's photos, that's exactly the feeling I was chasing when I built the zoom. And glad the grandparent link is doing its job, no account, no app to install, just open and look. Thank you for actually trying it out :)