I love their tagline: " The story of your life that writes itself."
It works in the background and journals my daily locations (I think using FourSquare's database) and overlays photos, instagram / fb feed as well as colocations with my friends.
The current product is interesting, the real fun will happen when I can re-live the past through the lens of time, location or people I was with. Pretty neat.
@danflopes@jain_ankit
That's like a dream of mine. I would love to go to, say, the house where I grew up, and be able to turn a dial and watch my sister take her first steps, her first day in school, her first dance performance. In time, in time :)
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I love the idea of this
My question would be the privacy of files. What about some files or locations you don't want to be included?
@osayilasisi
You should be able to remove anything from Fabric that you don’t want. You can delete any moment, any visit, and you can stop the location fix for however long you want. (Caveat: we probably still have bugs, but please tell us if we do).
Also, it’s worth noting that Fabric is private by default. You don’t have to share anything with anyone, and you can use it without adding any friends. Nikolay and I both used to work at Facebook, so we know plainly the pain of privacy feeling onerous to the average user.
Lastly, if there’s specific things you’re concerned about, feel free to ping us and we’ll build it in if it makes sense.
Hey Producthunt!
Thanks for posting about us! We’re the crack team of two (and sometimes a half) working on this project end-to-end, so I’m sorry for any answers that seem sleep-deprived.
We hope you like Fabric! We’ve put a lot of time and thought into it, and we hope it lives up to its potential.
This has similarities to Heyday 2.0 (cc @blader) and Steven (cc @abdur), both of which didn't work out.
@arunv30 + @nikolayav, I installed this yesterday so I'll need a few days of data to see what it's like but what use cases are you imagining?
@rrhoover@blader@abdur@nikolayav
I really liked Heyday! Would love to chat with @blader and @abdur.
We've tried to address some of what we thought they were missing. (Actually very much like what we were missing in our initial tests). We try to show as much history on day one as possible, and try to keep it engaging going forward.
@arunv30@rrhoover@blader@abdur@nikolayav I'd say my core question comes down to what real "problem" is this solving, and for who? Will someone let it run in the background for weeks, months, or years -- with the "hope" that they get value out of it in the future?
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To be honest the idea is cool but I doubt this would really catch on. This is basically a pimped up version of Google Maps Timeline where you can see your movements on the map. The map timeline has been there for a while and the only use I have for it so far is if I've forgot my phone somewhere or someone would steel it (hasn't happened yet). Adding friends and photos to this would at most be "funny" to look at a couple of times but you wouldn't use this type of service often I think. But it would be interesting to hear from the makers what value this adds and how initial users are using it?
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@mariuslian I think this comment has already proven short-sighted and wrong.
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Can't wait to see it on Android.
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looks interesting. not a big fan of the color code though.
It seems Apple patented a similar idea back in 2012 – https://www.engadget.com/2012/11...
I guess this focuses more on social integration though.
Anyway, looks cool. Patiently waiting for an Android release... 🙏
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