@rrhoover To answer your question as to where the idea originally came from, my background is in film and music video directing. We had the idea originally when I was working in Austin and was at a concert. I looked over the crowd of people and saw the sea of phones stuck in the air recording the event and thought "I wonder what people are going to do with all the video they shoot ...and what their perspective of the experience was." And that's how it started. A few of my buddies (4 cofounders) got together to figure out how we could make it super easier to remember these experiences in an engaging, mobile-first way and also have the ability to experience it collectively.
The first time I knew that we had something truly special with Ferris was at a buddy's wedding shortly after we had an MVP together. We were all using the app and people actually started adding videos to a wedding story the week before the event even happened (something I didn't expect initally) saying how excited they were to be coming, looking forward to seeing everybody, hoping the groom doesn't faint :) etc. The actual "day of" people were continuing to add videos to the story and the bride and groom actually got to watch the story of their wedding AT THE RECEPTION and got to see the things they missed (the mad dash to get the forgotten ring, the flower girl's tauntrum, my buddy's horrible dance moves). The newlyweds were laughing and crying the whole time. It made me so happy that this little idea we had could have such a big impact on people I care so much about.
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