Waddle Photos

Meaningful stories about your children.

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Meaningful stories about your children.

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Waddle Photos is a tool that allows you to turn photos and videos of your children into meaningful stories. Share completely privately throughout the day.

Launch tags:Messaging•Home•Photography

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Sparkly

Awesome logo and little UX touch on "start your album" button. Interesting to hear your perspective on the pricing strategy behind going with yearly vs the traditional SaaS-like monthly?

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9yr ago

Maker

@jerry_hsiang1 Thanks Jerry! I gotta give credit where it's due. My friend @gabecouch made the icon for the app. He's a super talented illustrator. Ive done a couple of different interactions on pricing and annual seems to make the most sense (at least right now). The goal is to have an app that never goes away, so I'd rather take 1 committed user than 100 passer-by. I have no desire to build Facebook. With just enough users paying annual subscription, I can get the app on its feet and have enough cash to support further development, all without the pressure of having to grow every months at the expense of creating a valuable product. Circling back to your question - if you are not going to be serious about investing your photos into Waddle, then you are not likely to continue paying month/month, and like @jasonlk says it, customer that churns is a customer you've never had. Hope that answers it.

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9yr ago

Maker

Hi Product Hunters, Since the birth of our daughter my wife and I have taken thousands of photos of our family, all of which have been sitting on a hard drive unseen. Dropbox was too complicated for grandparents, Google too messy... I needed something that was straight-forward and one that I could control. That's how Waddle was born. This app is meant to deliver the joy of sharing photos on places like Instagram, but without the oversight of the Big Brother. Your photos and videos are only seeing by the people you specifically allow to see them, and no one else. Since testing this with my family, we've shared hundreds of great memories, so much so that even great-grandparents visit the app twice a day. They love it, and whenever something doesn't work, I can just fix it for them. Grandparents just get a simple URL from me to visit, and accounts/passwords is all managed by me. The app is a work in progress, but if you have similar needs, I would love to get your feedback and make something that helps not just my family, but a broader community. p.s. There is no iPhone/Android app yet. It's all web based and optimized to work well in the browser. We just welcomed our second daughter, so both apps will be available in the fall once I start sleeping again :)

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9yr ago

@kirillzubovsky Really nice, Kirill. Thanks!

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9yr ago

Maker

@akhakhariev thanks. Appreciate it. Lmk how it works out!

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9yr ago

“Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pros:

Sweet memories which you are sharing with beloved people!

Cons:

Cons? I don't know any.

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9yr ago

Brilliant idea, Kirill! My parents will be super excited to use it once we welcome our first-born child to the world! Thank you so much for sharing it!

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9yr ago

Maker

@dkornyukhov excellent. glad to hear! keep in mind the app's still rough around the edge, but I am making it better every day. feel free to reach out and let me know any other feedback you might have. email is on the sidebar once you're logged in :)

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9yr ago

Maker

Much thanks to everyone who's up-voted Waddle yesterday and made it #4 app of the day. ❤️ 👏 💥 You are da bestest 😜

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9yr ago

Maker

Oh, forgot to mention one thing: there is no "invitation email" right now. Basically as soon as you add "grandpa@gmail.com" to your album, that person gets invited to the album, and as soon as they sign up, they can see the album. Emails will be available next week :)

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9yr ago

Pros: Great for sharing daily special moments with different sets of grandparents overseas who are now all addicted to our daily updates. Also perfect for keeping and accessing a subset of only the photos I want, saves from sorting thru the other millions of photos. I figure the albums would be perfect to just hand over to my little girls when they grow up. Cons: May cause whining grandparents when you miss a day's update ^^;;

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9yr ago

Really good idea. I really like this a lot. Congrats on your second! I can’t wait to give this a shot.

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9yr ago

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