Shake it like a Polaroid

Good morning! Come and say hello at our drinks and demos event tonight in NYC. Meet the Product Hunt team, network with other makers, and have some fun. 

Anyway, here’s some news: 

🕹️ Epic Games has won its antitrust fight against Google.

🍎 Apple has dropped a new app dedicated to journalling.

🐁 VR for mice is here, and it’s because of science. 

🦷 SmileDirectClub has shut down, months after filing for bankruptcy.

Talk about shipping fast. 

Less than three weeks ago, amo burst onto the scene with ID, a social app with a special focus on creativity and gridless possibility akin to social sites from years gone by. 

Now the team, aka the founders of Snap-acquired Zenly is back with their next app: Capture. As the name suggests, it’s a camera-based app and technically falls under the photo-sharing category, but to label it as such misses what it’s about. 

Rather than being your run-of-the-mill photo scrolling app, Capture instead zones in on the activity of snapping photos and works to make it more fun. It takes the focus away from endlessly complex algorithms, likes, shares, etc. 

When you boot up the app, you’ll be presented with a camera interface. You can pick from a bunch of different styles, and once you take a photo, it pretty much flies away into the amo-sphere, there’s no preview, no captions, no hashtags. 

From there, you can flick through other people’s photos in your orbit by tilting your phone. The tilting acts as a sort of nod to developing film. Before you tilt, a photo will look blurred. Once you tilt, it appears where you can also see wide angles and frontbacks of the same shot. I guess it's like shaking a Polaroid. 

And its all better seen than explained (there are haptic effects too), so click below to...

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