board games, emotish, & self-obsession
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I talked a bit about Emotish, a free photo-sharing iPhone app that I developed - and the board games database that inspired it - at the December 2012 Chicago Quantified Self Show & Tell Meetup.TRANSCRIPT
board games,emotions, &general self-obsession
dan bretl
i heart self datagps tracksamount of sleepdaily ratingdaily goalstime distributionphysical activityweighttennis scoresgolf (& mini-golf) scores
board games dbfilemaker pro (old school)translate score to performancecalculate all-time ratingrecord players’ moods
“mood photos”
“mood photos”
aggressive
i am self-obsessedaren’t we all?photos of myselfonline presenceself reflectionself analysisself reference
i am overly emotional
(i anthropomorphized my notebook)
thus, emotishi love apple & iOS
thus, emotishi love apple & iOS
thus, emotishfebruary - april 2012niche photo sharingnovel UI & UXcommunity contentbuilt with parse
why, emotish?creative expressionemotional awarenesslearning languagesteaching emotions(to humans, & to computers)
dream of a startup1 million users in the first week300+k photoswritten up in techcrunchfeatured by apple$5M venture capital raised
reality of a startup1 thousand users all time3+k photos postedwritten up in... a couple blogsignored by applewhat’s venture capital?
looking backdon’t bring your personal projectto a startup (or do?)the product is important, butmarketing is even more important
moving forwardself tracking is easy(er) on mobileparse makes anything possibleself tracking is fun, butenabling self tracking is more funtrick people into self tracking(it’s a photo sharing app!)
i like [email protected]@danbretldanbretl...(on pretty much anyservice you can think of)
emotish.com(join me!)