Hey all! Arun from Fabric here. Nikolay and I are here to answer any questions you guys might have.
Hope you enjoy Fabric!
Hope you enjoy Fabric!
Your on-boarding is really good. However, when it comes time to create an account, I need to create a username and password. Can't I just create the account with facebook? I already gave you access?
I found it very hard to see what's actually going on. The images on the cities are so big that they obscure the context. The "history bar" is confusing (I figured it out eventually), but I thought it was some glitching, and it made it look unprofessional.
I feel lots of data is missing: you pulled from FB but I didnt see evidence of my facebook history.
My use case is to have "reminders" of my life. I'd love if you can pull data from lots of places, in particular my email. The email headers in my gmail probably include where I was at all times over the last decade. Can you include that in some way? If you can pull the photos from my dropbox account, you'd probably have a complete look at my life for the last 10 years at least, but my phone only goes to 2012. (Everalbum does a good job with this).
Anyway, awesome idea, looking forward to trying it again.
1. Onboarding: thanks, we thought really hard about what to do there.
2. Images on the cities too big--can you clarify that one, you mean on the intro map you will see an image that is not necessarily representative of your entire time there as you'd like?
3. FB data missing--is that still the case? It's possible you looked while it was still importing where you were expecting content. Basically everywhere you go in the app, Days (when you posted), Cities, Places, People should have data from Facebook if the intro map indicated that the import was working. Feel free to send us a message to feedback@echo.works to follow up if that still looks broken.
4. Reminders: Great ideas, noted. We have also noticed that when we're missing Fabric, the best ways to remember what we were up to are our calendars, emails, and messaging.
Thanks again!
Did I understand correctly: You synchronize your various accounts (Fb, Instagram, 4square/Swarm ) and Fabric will do the same thing as the Foursquare "Time machine" [1] But in addition it would also correlates Instagram pictures and whatnot? Basically you're a low-friction & more modern LiveTrekker[2] (a 2012 app)?
This is neat, but it looks like a huge privacy issue, why would someone want his entire life recorded? Is it visible to all your friends?
I see one scenario I would like it: Let's say I turn it on when I go on a road trip from August 1st to August 15th, to share the experience with my family and friends, can I decide to share only this August 1st to August 15th period with my family?
[1] http://mashable.com/2013/06/13/foursquare-time-machine/#3R8p... [2] https://www.livetrekker.com
1. Have not checked out the foursquare or LiveTrekker stuff you mention--will do, thank you.
2. Nothing is visible to anyone, but yourself. Just like your text messages, Facebook messages, or email.
This is a large question in tech that we are only a part of--how do we build tools going forward in this environment of ever more granular and structured data, so that we can enjoy the benefits of better memory without introducing new issues.
As I mentioned already, we are not a social network exactly because of that, and the industry as a whole has been working actively to address such concerns as soon as they show up. Another example is the end-to-end messaging encryption being adopted by the messaging apps.
Anyways, we're very cognizant of that kind of issue and will continue to address them proactively.
3. The temporary sharing issue with family--it is indeed a fun scenario we have heard suggested before. For the time being, we're staying away for the reasons just discussed.