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Capsule.ai — Remember everywhere you've been
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@husseinyahfoufi lovely ideas, some can be done quickly, some take time. Keep an eye on the product, we aim to add features soon :)
@colaskirschoff prioritizing the backlog for this product is probably a beast of a task! I've been playing with the app for 10 minutes and can come up with a list of 50 ideas.. good luck! looks great!!
@husseinyahfoufi ahah indeed it's a hell of a task, thanks for your support !
Good job! simple & efficient design. Just tried it a bit, but seems a good way to remember great moments alcohol is trying to make me forget. Just a question where are the servers where my data is stored ?
Hey there @flo2sa, thanks for asking! The creators of Capsule put privacy before everything else. The app is Private by Design which means than none of your user data ever leaves your device. You data is yours and yours alone, nothing reaches a server and all your secrets stay in your phone!
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@colaskirschoff How does the "back up your data" part work? I'm guessing you mean do an iOS backup and restore onto the new phone? I assume deleting the app deletes the data. Perhaps iCloud would be an option for secure data storage.
@jameskoole you’re totally right. IOS backup and restore on a new phone. If you’re not backed up, then deleting the app deletes the data. Exactly. As far as iCloud goes, part of really sticking up for privacy by design (something that REALLY MATTERS to us!) is creating projects that do not require iCloud storage. So, if you do not connect iCloud (like me) and rather back up to your laptop, nothing goes to the cloud. PBD! (privacy by design)
Very cool app and landing!
I have a couple of questions regarding the product:
- How does it compare to the native iOS photo grouping (time and location)? Are you planning on adding facebook & instagram connect to gather more pictures?
- I figured you were the team behind Snips! Is this project one of many coming up demonstrating the power of the AI you're building? Some kind of B2C proof of concept? Also, can we expect more micro services as this one coming up from your studio?
Cheers from Paris, and congrats on the launch
Thanks for asking @widawskij :)
Of course it'd be great to add FB and Insta connect ! As for the comparison with iOS, we're aggregating pictures around places (bars, restaurants, gym, home, work, etc..), and cross many other different sources (such as your calendar, address book, reservations, ...), enabling you to add notes and moods on these specific moments (like a concert or a birthday) where Apple focuses on aggregating pictures on larger areas (cities / countries) to classify them.
Oh, and good catch, I'm indeed part of the Snips team. But this product is not related to what we're working on right now. So you should not expect more micro services like this one, you should rather see it a side project from a Snipster who wanted to build a cool product :)
BTW, another major differentiator: we're private by design.
Really cool. I've been wanting Moves to add this type of advanced functionality for a while! Excited to give this a try :)
@colaskirschoff Liking it so far! Some initial feedback:
- Would love to see a visualization of where I've been on a map for a given time interval (daily, weekly, etc.), with lots of different knobs to play with. For example, I want to be able to say: show me all the restaurants I went to in SF in the last two weeks on a map. Would be very awesome if you built a robust query engine around that. I used move-a-scopes Move plugin for this in the past but it is very limited and accessing it is high friction.
- Small thing but would like to be able to change from military time to AM / PM
- Really like the stats on how much time you spend at work
Keep up the good work!
@dfinzer thanks for your feedback !
Happy that you like the stats, and I'll see what we can do about this AM/PM thing :)
As for the map viz, I like the idea ! Also we used to have a first version of a search engine, we'll see if we can push a version of it soon :)
Thx man, happy to hear back from you soon !
hey @colaskirschoff cool concept! Software looks really nice, and I dig the name. I also just recently started exploring Esplorio which does the same thing. One thing I noticed there, and with your app as well, is the erroneous business names that are assigned whenever the app thinks you're near something.
For example, around my home apparently there is a chiropractor listed nearby and it says I'm there taking pictures a lot. I see you do have the "Home" setting which I assume would fix those, but the same thing happens when I'm out and about. For example, I took a picture with my wife a few weeks ago down in Maryland at a friends house, and Capsule said we were at "Rou Marketing" - I know this is a difficult solution to fix, but do you have any plans to address that? It kind of takes the magic away, and makes the process feel more manual to have to fix things.
@scawtent Happy that you like the concept ! About the fact that we associate Points of Interests to your locations, it’s true that it’s not always easy to do that. However there is a workaround to that: you can edit the places associated to your moments. And the more you do that, the more the app will learn from your behaviours and get the correct place. Also we’re crossing more and more sources, such as your address book, your calendar events, your pasteboard, reservations, et… to find hints that would help us find the right place.
Hey everyone,
This is Capsule the app that helps you remember everywhere. Capsule is an AI powered iOS app that helps track your movements through the city and connects the photos you take to the places you've been. Check Capsule for the name of that dive bar you hit last Friday night, or to find photos you took at the basketball game on the weekend. The app also keeps a weekly digest quantifying your week looking at metrics like the average time you leave the office to the number of places you visited in the evening.
@colaskirschoff hey Colas, this looks awesome. Love what you guys are doing with Snips as well! Quick question, will Capsule be running in background and that will add up to my weekly digest? Or I have to take pictures of whatever I am up to for Capsule to aggregate data?
@cemkozinoglu Thx for the kind words :) No need to take pictures every now and then, the moments will be recorded even if you do not open the app every day. Yes the app will run in the background but has amazingly low battery footprint. Note that the more you help the app know which places you were at, the more your weekly digest will be relevant.
@poolnoodle93 You're not the first person to make this comparison, @rrhoover also compared our product to Swarm but there are a couple major differentiators:
- We don't record or see any user data, Capsule is Private by Design
- We use your knowledge graph (contacts, email, calendar) to bring more clarity to your location and enhance results
- We use passive tracking: we do not require the user to say that he stopped somewhere at some point.
- We also show a weekly digest for the quantified self/bullet journal fans out there!
We would love for you to check it out and hear what you think!
@colaskirschoff Very cool! But oy, that's a lot of App Store competition for 'capsule.' Isn't that annoying? Anyway, I just got it and am looking forward to seeing it after a week's worth of activity!
Lovely, been wanting something like that. I'm one of the few (it seems) that doesn't mind their privacy invaded for the sake of having great memories when I'm older.
Is there a way to add places I've been to before I started using the app? Via facebook places check import? Foursquare checkin import? etc?
@johnnyquachy Thanks for the kind words! At the moment there is no way to add places you've been to in the past, but we're working on a solution in a future version !
@colaskirschoff Colas - this is really great! Any plans to offer aggregated location analytics in the future?
@0x11ff we're investigating around searching / sharing your list of favorite bars/restaurants, but not yet aggregating it around different users automatically, like the idea :)
@mimi_wong Hello! Capsule will use the data of your habits to guess which kind of places you might be in. It use also a lot of other parameters (the rating, the affluence, the opening hours, etc..) that also will help it guessing. The more you edit it in the first days the better it become guessing your positions. As for the apple watch, it would be awesome to have such a way to check in quickly! we will investigate this for sure!
@quentin_zibra @mimi_wong note that you can "check-in" directly into the app, by editing the place of the visit
Been waiting for something like this, looks like you nailed it. Can it or will it be able to track commute times?
@daniellarsson thx for the kind words ! You're not the first one to ask this, but we're not currently tracking movements in between stops right now. It would require us to track many more geolocations, hence resulting in a huge battery footprint. We did create an algorithm to estimate the transportation mode in between stops though :)
This seems like a much needed better version of the Moves app. Excited to try this out. @colaskirschoff will you be tracking movement between places as well? For example, If I take the train between Home and Work, will you automatically track that movement and attribute it to transit?
@daniel_schwartz We're not currently tracking movements in between stops because it would require us to track many more geolocations, hence resulting in a huge battery footprint. We did create an algorithm to estimate the transportation mode in between stops though :) Hope you'll like the app, thx for the feedback !
@colaskirschoff Awesome. Will see what it looks like once I actually go to a different location :). One last question: Do you expect to have a public API? I'd love to use with something like Gyroscope instead of Moves. CC: @aprilzero, @myusuf3
@daniel_schwartz To be honest that's not part of the short term plan right now, but things move fast here, so we might investigate this soon :)
I'm trying Capsule and it's look very cool :)
Is it (or will it be) possible to export our datas in a standard format to save them ? Thanks !
@clementbarbaza Thanks for this first feedback ! We're receiving a lot of feedback right now, and this export feature might be a good thing to do soon indeed :)
Great product! Does it have the ability to scan my existing photos / check-ins, in order to pre populate outta the box?
@giologist thanks ! It does pre populate using your existing photos, as soon as you authorized your pictures to be geolocalized in your iPhone settings. As for checkins we'd need to use external APIs from other apps and we had no time to do it for now :)
@colaskirschoff Nice! Gonna give it an install on my downtime later, I'm psyched! I hear ya on API integration, gotta set a good foundation before bringing in 3rd party data ;p GL!
Excellent! Remembering places is exactly what I've been using Swarm for. Now, importantly, is there a way to import my huge foursquare history into this app? If so, I'm 100% on board!
@vukovicnikola thanks man! The import are notready for now until our db is solid enough! But its definitely something we want to bring into the app! 🙏🏻
Looks cool, going to give it a go. I currently use https://www.polarsteps.com and its incredible. It tracks movements without actually using data so its perfect for travelling and recommended it to everyone I met when I was in Asia a few weeks ago.
This looks like a more "local" version of Polar Steps
Hi, looks really nice. Funny to see how these types of products are coming back after they have been tried at least 3 years ago. I remember overtale, memolane and a few others. I always liked them, hope you make it.
@stefanozorzi Thank you very much! Indeed the diary/memory problematic is a long story! We think that AI passive tracking and Privacy will make a big difference in this field!
I would like to use the app but it is not available in Turkey. Do you have your app in TestFlight?
Thanks
Why did you call it Capsule? Is is for "Capsule temporelle ?"
Cheers from Paris too o/
@tsunaze Yes, exactly! We were inspired by digging childhood time capsules and wanted to build a product that helped us remember all the amazing places we've been and the photos we took while we were on those adventures!
@palavalli Hey ;) this is our first shot, so we aim for one platform... But if people like it, the next step will definitely be the android version! 🤖 cheers!
@quentin_zibra @palavalli I'm also very interested in an Android version. Do you have a mailing list we can sign up to get notifications if you decide to pursue an Android app?
@renfrowk @quentin_zibra @palavalli Do not worry we will contact you when we do the android version :)
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