Show HN: Shoeboxify is your shoebox for Facebook

http://www.shoeboxify.com/show-HN

by gdonelli • 14 years ago

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gdonelli4• 14 years ago

Hi there!

I started Shoeboxify a few months ago after leaving my job at Apple last winter. I am seeking thoughts and feedback about the idea.

We have been sharing our lives on Facebook for several years now. We shared pictures of our boyfriends and girlfriends, our fun college years, and perhaps even our first child. Facebook collects so many meaningful photos and stories about our lives, but usually they are buried by noise in the form of YouTube videos, advertisements and updates from people no longer active in our lives.

Shoeboxify is about finding a safe and private container for our feelings. Shoeboxify is not only about privacy, it is also about organizing our photos and post away from the noise of Facebook.

=== On the technical side ===

I would encourage you to play with the shoebox on the page. Also try to resize the browser window to simulate the mobile screen experience, the scaling of the shoebox is optimized (i.e. it is not proportional, so that the text is always easy to read). The whole page is drawn starting from 5 images (http://www.shoeboxify.com/show-HN/sprites/) and I used canvas all over to draw the UI.

Thanks HN community!

username3• 14 years ago

Why not just mark photos on Facebook as private? Is it not possible to mark single photos in albums as private?

We could download our history including our photos from Facebook and put them on Dropbox.

gdonelli4• 14 years ago

You can change your privacy settings with the photos you own (ie you uploaded them), but not for the pictures you are tagged in.

Last time I checked the download history feature of FB didn't included photos you were tagged in either.

I want a beautiful place were my memories live. Using a file system like drop box to store them I think it will be pretty sad for such a valuable assent.

Check out the story section to know what I mean.

alyx• 14 years ago

IE 10 not supported? Lame.

gdonelli4• 14 years ago

Yes, I focused on getting an excellent user experience and to make my life easier in this pre-release version focus on getting it right for Chrome, Safari and Firefox.

Check it out with a compatible browser I hope you can appreciate the polish. I wanted no compromise PS: it also doesn't work on Android for same reason

skyhook_mockups• 14 years ago

number of IE10 users is a rounding error... why would a (presumably) solo developer waste precious time supporting it?

duiker101• 14 years ago

- Startup name: *ify

- Social network related (bonus point for naming facebook in headline)

- Heavy use of eye candy

- Reference to old thing (does anybody still puts photos in showboxes?)

Startup hipster status: Confirmed.

/joking

It looks nice but I really do not understand the use of this... If my pictures are already on facebook..why wuold I want to put them on here? They would still be on facebook so... I do not understand what problem does this solve? you say that the pictures are buried by noise...but..there are albums, there is a section just to see the photos.. I am a missing something here?

gdonelli4• 14 years ago

nice, I like the hipster comment.. although I am not an hipster designer.

I would encourage you to read the story section on the website.

To sum it up. There are personal and intimate memories on Facebook (such as past relationships and in general phases in your life that are meaningful but over) which you might not be comfortable to share anymore after years they happened... and yet they are very important to you.

I want a better space for those memories which is more intimate and for my eyes only

aredstone• 14 years ago

When is this going to be ready for use? Will I be able to export all my shoeboxify photos to my own digital archive?

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