👋Hello Product Hunters! My name is Aaron and I’m super excited to finally launch Eternalist on Product Hunt! I just graduated and am currently putting off finding a job in order to work on this product as a part of the Startup UCLA accelerator 2019 batch.
We started working on this problem because we were disturbed by how much of our lives we simply forget. If you don't think this is a problem, try to think back 3 days ago. Can you remember what you did on that day? Who you met? What you ate?
I certainly can't, and this scares me. I tried to think back over each day of the last year, and about 95% of my year was just completely gone to me. I was only able to recall the superficially memorable events like trips, which means that I lost almost all of the mundane but meaningful memories—like the night I played video games with my best buds till 3 in the morning.
Traditionally, people use journals or scrapbooks to remember their lives, but those both take an incredible amount of time to maintain. Hats off to people who can do it, but most of us are mere mortals.
We created eternalist to make sure that everyone—even super busy people—have a way to take a step back and appreciate all that they've seen, done, and experienced in their lives.
Thanks for checking out what we're working on! Happy building 😊and have a great weekend!
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Any feedback would be appreciated! We would especially like to know what you think about the layout of the data. We know that we need to improve it, but we're not sure what's not working about it now. 🍻
Hey Aaron! This looks really interesting and something I'd definitely consider using because I'm obsessed with tracking my days looking back on my photos and Google location data! 🙌
How does it work with the sourcing of all of the content? Say, are photos from Google Photos etc. still hosted on those sites, or are they imported to Eternalist?
Hi @calum! Yes, thanks for asking about that. I should have mentioned more about how we actually store stuff! At the moment, we just store the information that each of the APIs returns. That means for photos and videos we keep a copy of the url that the API returns and are NOT keeping a copies of the actual media in our database. The data is also transport encrypted. 🔒
As a side note, google photos is a special case because they change the base url every hour. To reduce our API calls and avoid hitting the limit, we fetch new data once when you first sign up and once a day after that. We only get the up-to-date base urls when you request certain photos (ie when you look at your timeline).
We'd actually love more feedback on this! It seems like users prefer that we store their data this way, but in the future, we may have to start storing photos to offset storage costs and or to avoid API limits. What do you think? We're really open-minded to different ways to do this!
UPDATE: We are aware of an issue with API limits. Unfortunately, due to higher than expected volumes of traffic, we already hit the Google Photos API limit for today. You can still create an account and add your photos, but they won't show up until tomorrow! 😢Please don't let that discourage you from trying it out!
We're working on a patch that will be released tonight to boost our API limit, but if anyone can help us get that limit raised, that would be 🔥
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