Summary
The team has been really focused on four main priorities:
- Getting media working with the OpenSocial distribution of Drupal that we're building on
- Implementing the new Figma designs for the app
- Getting media cluster recognition engine working, as described in this blog post
- Deciding whether to stay on Pantheon, or move to another host, to optimize our DevOps workflows and rationalize our startup costs
These are meaty items that have taken a lot of time. As a result, we still have about 41% of our sprint yet to complete (based on story points), and it looks like we've haven't made much progress this week. Hopefully we'll reach a couple of breakthroughs this month and be able to wrap up our current sprint, so we can re-launch our private beta.
Submission
KPI: results
- MPV2 launched: 59% of 100%
- Google photos imported via API: 4728 of 4000
- Users+waiting list: 1725 of 2000
What are you building, in a sentence?
- GreatAlbum helps you consolidate & organize your photos/videos across services/devices to share and relive experiences with family & friends
Here’s what you planned to do this week:
- ⏭️Beta6 sprint 80% done
- 🎨GreatAlbum app site design 20% implemented
- 📸Confirm path to resolve media configuration challenges
- 📸Media recognition engine 50% done
- 💻Determine hosting path forward
- 📽️Demo video v5
- 📰Blog post
What did you accomplish this week? Did you do everything you planned?
- 📊Read journal entry & KPI charts at https://bit.ly/3iKEVYC (this page)
- ⏭️Beta6 sprint 59% done - moved 5 stories to deploy
- 🎨GreatAlbum app site design 10% implemented - completed several views
- 💻Explored/compared hosting options: Pantheon, A2Hosting, AWS, GCP
- 💻Worked on rebuild site repos
What do you want to have done by the end of next week?
- ⏭️Beta6 sprint 80% done
- 🎨GreatAlbum app site design 25% implemented
- 🎨Help site design planning
- 📸Confirm path to resolve media configuration challenges
- 📸Media recognition engine 50% done
- 📽️Demo video v5
- 📰Blog post
What would you like feedback on from the community?
Project website
Which of these best describes the stage of your project?
- Privately testing with users
KPI Dashboards
KEY FEEDBACK FROM PIONEER MEMBERS:
Ok interesting. Are you targeting user who wants to be able to track their original photos? if so, have you talked with such an enthusiastic person? What did they say specifically?
I am old enough to remember people building chat apps that work with all chat services. None of them as far as I can tell took off in a big way.
You're building an abstraction layer above the instagram types. I am unsure the demand
Good job so far,
Help me with the following questions to understand,
1. What do I need this service when the photo library on my already organizes photos for me?
2. If I’m curating photos from Facebook, Instagram and my phone, isn’t that just repetition?
All the best
This is a very nice product, and it involves a lot of work as I can see. Off my head I guess Google photos has some of these functions.
So are you building a product that's way better than that? So the value proposition will be clear to users and that will simplify onboarding for you.
Also do you plan on integrating your app with Google photos?