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Thank you! We did raise a seed round from some investors. It was $2M and from a bunch of people: https://angel.co/hey

Thank you, all credit goes to our amazing team: http://www.hey.co/about

Thank you so much for the kind words. We're working on way better automatic photo beautifiers (scene/face detection + automatic cropping).

This is literally our #2 most requested feature. We so want to build this.

If we do get pulled from the App Store, it will still be on your phone, so as long as you don't delete it you'll be fine.

This is exactly why we built Heyday! Please try it, I think you'll love it. =)

I feel the same way. That's why we spent time building it so that all of your data lives fully on your device (it's synced to our servers for backup purposes, which you can switch off). So even if we run out of money, you can still use Heyday forever.

But less factually, I'm in love with this product and I intend to work on it for the rest of my life. Even for free.

We do sync the data to our servers, which you can switch off. We've engineered it so that if you just want to keep the data on your phone, the app will still work fine, and you can rely on your iTunes/iCloud backups.

Ha! That's basically what mine looks like too most of the time, but I've found that it makes me want to make my life more interesting.

Thank you so much, that's such a nice compliment to our team. We're working on Android as soon as we can, but we're a very small team of 9 people.

Fixed, thanks!

Thanks Ryan! Appreciate the support.

Freemium is how things like Dropbox and Evernote make money, and they seem to be doing okay. =)

We're going to be a freemium product. Advertising would be a terrible business model given how sensitive the data we're going to have is.

If you disable syncing it's as secure as your device is ... which is to say probably not that secure. =(

Same way you do when you look at a jpg.

I just want to know who the guy that can make the decision to fire you is at places like Github, Valve, and Medium. Either that person doesn't exist or that person is your manager.

There are lots, but none in michaelochurch's life apparently.

Maybe the good people would be a bit less likely to keep you at arm's length if you didn't come off as assuming by default that founders and VCs are out to get you, which is pretty annoying and self destructive.

Thank you! We're still pre-launch so the site is still unfortunately vague. Best of luck to you as well sir.

We're making a journal that writes itself, to help people remember their lives. It is most definitely a first world problem, but I also think those are fine to work on. =)

Which is why you're working on stuff like that right? As opposed to third world problems like video games?

... and welcome to Hacker News, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm not sure who you're responding to, because:

Not entire: half. And not dumber: negative.

But I rest my case.

Because it's Hacker News. Nothing gets reported here without half of this community being obnoxiously negative about it, as if we've all could have built something like LivingSocial if we wanted to.

Please cc me (siqi@herelabs.com) as well. Thanks!

Hey, are you open to feeding a startup with 10 people next week (Tue and Thurs)? Email bryn@herelabs.com and tell her I sent you.

My only point is that what's right for you isn't necessarily what's right for everyone.

Yeah, who needs TextMate when you have vim, right? Or Ruby when you've got Perl?

With such a long response, one would expect there would be something said about the damning part of his post:

"For the record, why would you post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4807691 titled "Show HN: I'm 16, and I made a thing" if you are so irked by people using their age on hacker news?"

vs

"For the record, I am of a similar age and always refrain from giving my age."

Because they don't get paid if you don't make a hire. If you can find a good recruiter to work with, then they could end up working for you for months or even years, with a chance of never getting paid.