@mathieuspiry to address the elephant in the room: why would I use this over Google Photos? It seems the one thing this might have over Google is that it deletes blurry photos to save space. But when everything is backed up to the cloud for free, a couple blurry photos don't really bother me. Google can also organize and share and tag, etc.
@alteredorange Good question. In Comet, the AI acts like a proactive assistant. It's here to help the user truly manage his photos by suggesting him to do some actions depending on its behavior.
For instance, in the Gallery tab, the AI detects the duplicates, the blurry photos, soon the badly framed photos, (so basically all the useless photos) and it suggests to delete them in order to free up space instantly & display the photos in a better way.
In the Albums tab, the AI detects when the user attend an event and suggest to create a collaborative album so he can regroup all the photos in one place effortlessly.
And soon, the AI will also detects the « photos of interest » that are forgotten and will display them (in many difference ways) after a while in order to revive old memories.
Moreover, we believe that apps should empower users keeping their data safe.
In Comet, the AI works locally, all your data stay on your phone and on your phone only.
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@mathieuspiry gonna have to go with @alteredorange. While the remove dups and blurry photos is nice to have, I have a hard time seeing how this could pull me away from Google Photos since Google Photo has a pretty intelligent assistant that creates clean albums(that are dup free, location & date based and ready to share), collages, animated gifs & videos. Top that off with unlimited cloud storage of raw files since I have the Pixel.
From a technical standpoint, I totally appreciate what you have created, but from a potential user standpoint I struggle with adopting another tool to manage my photos and need strong value prop to make the switch...
Maybe I am missing something?
@matsilva@alteredorange I guess that if you consider your data truly private, you could make the switch because at Comet, "our users are not the product". An then, the UX is completely different : the AI talks with you, suggest thinks to do and soon, it will get your friends' photos in a total new way that has never been done before (let's do some teasing ^^)
Hi Guys!
First of all, a massive thanks to @robjama for the post.
Being here again as we released Comet 2.0 only a few hours ago on the App store and the Play Store is just thrilling!
In less than a year, our user base has grown organically and we have been in touch with our users, A LOT.
They shared interesting though obvious new stuff, mainly about their whole photo experience on mobile :
1. Their phones are completely full of similar / blurry / badly framed photos that are useless
2. Gathering photos after an event is simply impossible as everybody promise...but doesn’t send anything
3. Even with, let’s say, 4367 photos and 143 videos on their phones, they do nothing with them afterwards
AND most of all, managing all that manually is an impossible mission.
So what if an AI could help in all these situations?
Comet is the first smart personal photo assistant on mobile that manages your photos for you and with you, with a full privacy policy.
Comet integrates an AI called « NAVI » which acts like a real assistant and tells you when you can do something with your photos.
NAVI detects the similar / blurry photos and can delete them if you want, so you finally clean your phone.
NAVI detects when you attend an event and create automatically a collaborative album. If NAVI detects there are several persons at your event, NAVI asks you to add members.
NAVI is based on a powerful deep learning model which is improving everyday.
We will be able to add new features soon that will push further the « assistant role » of Navi like dealing the photo gathering for you or making relive your old photos…all that in a simple and design-oriented app.
If you have some ideas, don’t hesitate to shoot them in the comments.
Please let us know what your think! Happy to answer to all your questions.
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@mathieuspiry@robjama So is this geared toward Pros, Advance amateurs, or consumers.
Love the idea of a smarter photo app! I just came back from a trip and took a bunch of photos. I had to delete a lot while digging for the best ones and manually organize them. Glad to see that there's an app for that.
The trend of smarter apps for our smartphones is going to be an interesting one to watch this year.
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What is the business model? How do you plan to make money?
@anodigital Good question! We sell our solution to corporations and event agencies that want to create digital communities & make their attendees collaborate and need specific features. For instance, we’ve worked with Coca Cola Enterprise during the European soccer cup (1 collaborative album created per match where 20 to 100 users were invited to join and share photos) and we've worked with Rolland-Garros (French tennis open) on a similar project to enhance their internal communications. And what's great is that this business model provides us a great distribution model at the same time :)
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@mathieuspiry very cool & interesting approach. Seems like a good area to be in.
I hadn't ever heard of Comet before so I never tried v 1.0, so these are my initial thoughts. Keep in mind these are just my personal opinions & obviously no offense intended.
1. UI seems rushed. With a 2.0 rollout I'd imagine there was some sort of re-design that took place, which really makes me wonder what v 1.0 looked like. The icons seem generic I'm on a iPhone 6S Plus and the icons in the settings menu are all a bit blurry (f in the Facebook icon, bird in the Twitter icon, cloud albums icon, and the tell a friend icon. The key looks better than the rest.)
2. I'd like to have some explanation / forewarning that the albums I create will be stored in the cloud without having to read the FAQ.
3. I'd like to be able to create the albums - or at least preview them to see what albums the app created - before accepting them so that I can either approve / delete it before it starts getting uploaded to the cloud.
4. The pop-out animation when you click the cube icon in the bottom left is...let's just say it could use some work. I've always been a fan of stuff like this:https://codepen.io/sparanoid/pen... (not for everyone / every use-case of course)
5. The cube icon - how does that relate to Comet?
6. Would love some visual / audible feedback for when you click on buttons - specifically there ones when creating an album (the X and the >) so that I know my click was registered and the app isn't just freezing, making me click again. Right now when you click the X when creating an album there is a nearly 5 second delay before anything happens and then finally the screen fades and returns you to the gallery area.
Hope this feedback is helpful and congrats on the launch!
@anodigital Thanks for your personal input, it's nice to hear clear-cut feedbacks like those.
About the UI, you are right, we're constantly working to improve its accuracy alongside the evolution of the product. Truth is, without an actual graphic designer in the team (for now!), we may tend to overlook a bit too many things - hopefully your feedbacks will set us on the good way! Same goes for the UX: adding hints and tips is clearly next on our TODO list! Your points 4 and 6 fall in this TODO list as well ;)
Regarding the album creation with the assistant, there is a simplified way to browse the pictures before creating all of them or one by one. But if you didn't realized it its our mistake.
FYI there also is a way to create an album without using the assistant - but then you'd have to add all the pictures inside.
The cube icon - the icon of the AI assistant Navi - has 3 understanding. You could see it as a cube (which is related to the tech aspect of the AI), a constellation of stars (which is related to Comet) and if you've got quite a lot of imagination, maybe you'll see the smiley face of the assistant ;)
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@florent_hobein ah, I see, glad to hear! Looking forward to the progress you guys make! When you said "their is a simplified way..." what did you mean - that I can make the albums before they are uploaded to the cloud, or what?
EDIT: Nvmd - I just found what you meant. You can click the > to see the albums before the are made.
@anodigital in a way yes - when you browse the list of albums that Navi recommends you to create, you can swipe the pictures to look at the content of the albums before their creation.
Thank you for your encouragements!
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