Summary
The team has been really focused on two main priorities:
- Rebuild MVP on AWS with newest version of OpenSocial distribution of Drupal
- Implement the new Figma designs for the MVP
We're hopeful that as we quickly rebuild GreatAlbum MVP, we'll finally wrap up our current sprint, so we can re-launch our private beta.
If you like, watch demo videos at https://bit.ly/3uWvrhd and https://bit.ly/3fUkN6c
Submission
KPI: results
- MVP2 launched: 49% of 100% (Done+Deploy)
- Media cataloged in GreatAlbum: 5012 of 4000
- Users+waiting list: 2256 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:
- ⏭️Redo Beta5/6 sprints to rebuild GreatAlbum MVP 50% done
- 💻Explore and learn more DevOps options in our new set up on AWS
- 🎨GreatAlbum app site design 40% implemented
- 📸Media recognition engine 70% done
- 📰Blog post
What did you accomplish this week? Did you do everything you planned?
- 📊Read article with KPI charts at https://bit.ly/3mDTlxw
- ⏭️Redo Beta5/6 sprints to rebuild GreatAlbum MVP 49% done
- 🎨GreatAlbum app site design 25% implemented
- 📸Media recognition engine 75% done
What do you want to have done by the end of next week?
- ⏭️Redo Beta5/6 sprints to rebuild GreatAlbum MVP 70% done
- 💻Explore and learn more DevOps options in our new set up on AWS
- 🎨GreatAlbum app site design 40% implemented
- 📸Media recognition engine 90% done
- 📰 Blog post
What would you like feedback on from the community?
- Do you backup photos to iCloud or Google Photos? How many photos?
- How often do you share albums with others? How often would you like to?
Project website
Which of these best describes the stage of your project?
- Privately testing with users
KPI Charts
KEY FEEDBACK FROM PIONEER MEMBERS:
Having been through a family funeral (mother-in-law) recently, with widely separated members, your birthday celebration example struck home.
I'd focus on delivering an outstanding experience with it being really easy to curate and publish the photos in two events - birthdays and funerals (weddings have too many competitors). Do you have a way for people to vote on inclusion?
The "album" side is how Canva started!
I auto back-up all my photos to Google Photos. But never really organize it. Have a hard time sifting through the 100s of photos to find interesting albums / selections to share.
Hey Erik, I love the passion you have for this project. Scratching the itch of 20 years, that is just amazing! I hope you get out of beta fast and start charging to sustain the business asap!
I back up all my photos to iCloud, it's probably around 10,000 pics at this point.
I very rarely share albums, I think social media has taken the central role in sharing the media that I want to.
Hope this helps and good luck!
Hey overall I really like this idea! some feedback:1. The blog seems like a really powerful way to drive traffic to this service organically if you worked to refine your SEO strategy
2. It looks like you need to add your domain to the captcha settings thing because I'm seeing an error right now when I try to comment
3. Something really cool you could try is using GPT-3 to digest all the data and create a chatbot
Nice updates mate!
I use iCloud to Backup all my photos and I have 5,300+ photos and 500+ videos.
Sharing albums would be really nice... but I feel what would be better is adding people into albums instead, that way there could be live updates and we wouldn’t have to miss anything.
Hope this was useful.
Good luck mate!