Capsule Product Information and Latest Updates (2025)

Capsule

Maker

Hi everyone. I created Capsule after losing months of my daughter's home videos 😭. Unhappy with having to choose between manual backup and Cloud companies scanning my photos. I decided to take matters into my own hands! What we came up with was Capsule. A product that backs up your photos from literally everywhere automatically - take a photo outdoors, it goes straight Home 🏠. Backs up photos from your camera, iCloud, Dropbox, Instagram, even Google Photos. Capsule also comes with smarts to automatically build albums and slideshows for you, as well as allow you to share your photos & videos with your loved ones around the world with rules (target photos of: who, where, event, etc). Of course you can search and access your photos & video on the go, on any of your devices. We're currently offering 15% additional discount on Kickstarter to Capsule Hunters (link in description ☝️). Happy to answer any questions!

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7yr ago

Dan Siepen

Growth Marketing Checklists

@johnathan_zhuang awesome work Johnathan! Amazing product and know how hard you worked on it. Can’t wait to preporder and try one and have them arrive on the door!

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7yr ago

Johnathan Zhuang

Capsule

Maker

Thank you @dansiepen. We're so looking forward to shipping it. Keep creating & keep hustling! :D

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7yr ago

Rita Viana

@johnathan_zhuang what if something happens to it? Get stolen, for example

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7yr ago

Johnathan Zhuang

Capsule

Maker

Hi @texviana. We deliberately made the decision to store your photos & videos unencrypted on the hard drive. As long as you have your hard drive, your memories are still safe. (btw, photos & videos are fully encrypted during transmission, so security is still guaranteed!) We're also working on means of redundancy, as in what happens when your hard drive fails - even know we have no control over that, we feel as a memory management company we share that responsibility, so stay tuned on that front too! :D

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7yr ago

Nic Perry

Letters Across Time

Looks like no internal drive option right now. I like the expandability of external drives, but the aesthetic is pretty subpar. Any plans for a hard drive dock it sits on or a larger model that has some onboard storage? Seems like you made too pretty of an object to have a cord running to a hard drive. Also, the visuals from the video feel a little misleading. How many USB ports, can I plug in two drives for some redundancy?

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7yr ago

Johnathan Zhuang

Capsule

Maker

Hi @nperry302 Thanks for the comment. Apologies if we misled you on the video, I think it was done for artist merit - not that it's an excuse :p In short the reason to go with purely external storage was a commercial one to keep retail price affordable. As the person driving the aesthetic + overall product direction, I was really torn with this decision. I was keen to have onboard SSD (much more reliable over HDD especially for your personal photos & videos), but that would make Capsule too cost prohibitive for most people. We will never remove USB for storage expandability, but stay tuned we will make onboard storage work economically! Re redundancy. Capsule doesn't currently support real time redundancy (as in RAID set up), it's also something we will look at improving in the future. But require further improvement on the hardware side. Companies that claim software based redundancy using 2 hard drives (we've explored this) aren't being totally transparent with customers. So we're not prepared to even tote this feature till we're ready. Hope you understand. Some really good points though, I love how these comments mirror the early customer testing we did, showing us that: 1) we're solving something people care about - a bit of morale boost for us 2) there's a lot of work ahead of us to get this right. The team and I are very excited about the challenges & opportunities ahead!

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7yr ago

Nic Perry

Letters Across Time

@johnathan_zhuang Thanks for the replies, all tough lines to walk, I definitely understand, and I'm positive I'm more sensitive to redundancy than average. and my art teacher wife more sensitive to aesthetics. :)

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7yr ago

Johnathan Zhuang

Capsule

Maker

@nperry302 totally understandable. Thanks for the questions. Good to know exactly what our users are thinking. We'll definitely tackle the redundancy problem a bit more post Kickstarter!

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7yr ago

Austin Teague

I also agree with @nperry302. I didn't realize you needed an external hard drive to make Capsule work. Might want to make this more obvious in your videos or Kickstarter page.

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7yr ago

Johnathan Zhuang

Capsule

Maker

will do @austinteague, appreciate the feedback!

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7yr ago