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Show HN: Journi, a free travel journal iPhone app

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Congratulations on having it available, good luck!

I haven't tried it yet but I've read the site. How are you going to monetise it?

Bug report: FAQ text on Windows with Chrome: http://imgur.com/bnJYG4V (the font is very small and it's not a good type for Chrome in Windows)

> How are you going to monetise it?

Also my immediate question. I am willing to pay for a service like this to continue (I love traveling and have been looking for a good app to function as a journal). My first thought was basically, "A travel journal is really important to me now and will increasingly become more important to me. How can I guarantee this work/time/life invested will continue for 40 years?"

There is no guarantee that your data will be around 40+ years from now unless its physically on your storage. I would like to hear from the founders plan to monetize.

The business model is going to be freemium. We're currently evaluating different features to decide which should go into a premium bundle. So we're always happy to hear from our users about their problems and limitations of the app. but basically the idea is to charge for additional storage. hth

Thanks for the feedback. It's great to hear that you're willing to pay for such a service. If you're interested i put you on our list of testers for freemium?!

I'd be happy to test—though my traveling will be limited in the near future (I just finished a summer of traveling).

Edit: just noticed you were located in Wien. Ironically, I spent three weeks there this summer (mostly in Pötzleinsdorf area).

We are from Wien that's right. :) Hope you had a great time there! At the moment we are in San Francisco. At least until October.

Thanks for the feedback! Will look into that issue immediately. Find my answer on monetization above.

This looks terrific! I was looking for something exactly like this not too long ago. At that time my parents were about to embark on a round-the-world journey, and it was so difficult to find a simple travel blogging app or service for my mom. In the end I set her up with an account on Medium, but even Medium's carefully designed UX was still too awkward, and she never felt completely comfortable with it.

Note to UX designers: if you want to subject your designs to some serious blast testing, make sure to recruit a few 60 to 80 year olds for your user studies!

Totally get your point! Thanks will pass on the UI/UX credits to bbusetti. she is responsible for the design. In fact we really tasted a lot with older people. My parents now use it a lot, as they can also follow via web and email.

I wonder how many verticals can be built upon facebook's core concept of sharing thoughts and photos just by carving out a niche and doubling down on it.

I guess this is another instance of the higher level arc of use-case unbundling in the mobile space.

Another recent example would be Product Hunt as unbundled 'show hn'. Food for thought.

no doubt, journi is a niche product, as I built it for people on the go. What I saw on FB is that users are tired of people over-spamming their timeline with vacation photos. And other users don’t want to share certain things on facebook because the data might be too private or too spammy for others. And last but not least, it’s hard to recover important moments on facebook. Moments easily get lost in your timeline or your friends streams and stay there unnoticed.

I think that it is nearly unlimited.

Facebook's size is a limitation. They have over a billion users. Any change they make needs to able to deal with the lowest common denominator.

You can deliver value to niche markets by focusing on their needs & workflow. The "niches" can be millions of people doing a defined scope of tasks.

I haven't tried out the app yet but by looking at the landing page it looks like there isn't a way to journal video entries? I've been trying to find a travel journal app that can let me take short snaps and short video updates as I travel.

That's right. For the early version we decided not to support video entries. But we are counting every request. And it is on our radar. I like the idea of videos as well. I'd like to know what kind of videos you want to share? How long are the videos you currently make?

It's not something I've done but it's something I could see myself doing while travelling more if there was a more seamless way to share/aggregate/organize them. I was thinking more along the lines of candid short videos like "Hey guys we just had a crazy 8 hour ride on a Jeepney from Manila to Banaue and here we are amongst the breath-taking rice fields. Take a look!".

Love the UI and UX, everything is pretty & intuitive.

Is it possible to tag friends who were with me, at each entry? Either through Facebook or Twitter tags? That would allow me to share the moment with friends who experienced it as well.

Thanks! design credits go to bbusetti! Tagging is not possible in this version. But we already started looking into that, as we are working on a feature to collaborate with two or more people on the same trip.

Just wanted to say thank you for creating such an app! I hope to use it in upcoming trips!

Glad you like it! If you have any feedback then let me know!

i've been using this! great service!

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