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Heap — Mobile blogging platform with beautiful multimedia posts
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@tommoor Hi Tom, to be honest, we decided to take Heap as our name without a proper Google search. With regards to SEO you’re absolutely right that this is not really an advantage. But we are now continuously working on it. Until then, we rely on direct links, recommendation systems and ASO.
I've been looking for a new platform that helps me share photographs, everyday life and occasionally geek out a little.
Heap looks like somewhere I could eventually call home, but I do have concerns about the number of users right now.
@samibln what are your thoughts? Any metrics you could share with us?
Nevertheless, awesome product. Looks very well thought out. I'll write and hopefully they'll come.
@samatrouh Hey Sam, thank you for your great feedback. So happy that you like Heap so far. Our Marketing machinery has just begun and we are busy promoting 24h a day all over the planet - with great success so far. We will release some figures on our way - stay tuned. In the meantime, we appreciate when you tell your friends so you will have a better reach on Heap. ;-)
Are you thinking of launching an Android version soon? Or probably a web version? This could really compete against Tumblr. Nice work! Loved the aesthetics.
@rutgerteunissen Thank you so much for your feedback and compliment. We are really happy to hear that! With the resources we are currently raising, we should be able to deliver an Android version by the end of this year. And if we’re lucky enough, there could also be room for a web version ;-)
Hey nice app @samibln few things- why only email login? I had to think twice. Also your icons are really small, any specific reason for same? But above all the app concept is neat and content looks beautiful. Congrats
@rgupta29 Thank you very much for your feedback. We are working day and night to improve our app, icons and another way to login are some of our next steps.
Interesting product, thanks for building it. Do you have plans to add a web based desktop version? I ask because as a fairly active blogger, I find mobile to be a tough medium on which to compose.
@arlogilbert Thank you very much for your feedback. One goal in creating Heap was to make the blogging and composition process on the fly as easy as never before. Heap allows you to create emotional posts and you might use them as previews for your web blog etc. However, we also know that mobile blogging focuses to a much larger degree on (moving) pictures and elements that do not require too much typing. That’s why we are also working on additional elements to be included in a „Heap“ (as we call the compositions) such as calendar, location, links.
@samibln @arlogilbert makes an important point - blogging still tends to be text-heavy, and mobile-first/only platforms don't provide a good experience for writing and editing. That said, the additional elements sound interesting - you might also consider an integration with another, more text-friendly platform to enable rapid importing of text composed on a standard keyboard.
@eliservescent We totally get your point. We should definitely consider the integration of additional elements that link to texts.
On the other hand, we also witness that people are less willing to read long texts on their mobile. So we should also think about the best possible format of consuming content on mobile. Heaps, that's what we call the compositions of up to five elements, is our answer.
@theezaven Great feedback. Thank you very much. The shaking part comes when you create to rearrange the elements. Take a look at: https://youtu.be/wEwjv5GbCSY
Hello Makers and Hunters!
We are excited to be on Product Hunt today. To give you some background on what motivated us to create Heap:
We were tired of the limitations existing solutions had. There had to be a way to express yourself more emotionally, more detailed, more focused on experiences than on things.
We managed to create a new format combining all possible media types in a non-linear way. Where else can you combine up to five videos in one post? … one post? By simply shaking your phone, you can arrange the elements the way you like to create beautiful compositions.
This is why we created Heap.
We are looking forward to your feedback!
@esbvn Thank you for your question. We are big fans of Storehouse. Still, we believe that there has to be something, where you can simply express a lot of emotions in a very fast and mobile-only way. When we designed Heap, our first objectives were: fast, on the go, simple to use, the post should be consumable without scrolling.
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