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The Roll by EyeEm — Organize your iOS Photos automatically
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Hey Product Hunt!
I’m a Co-founder of EyeEm and Product Lead on The Roll. We’re super happy to finally launch this app and share it with you guys!
The Roll is a free app for iOS that organizes, keywords and helps you find the best photos on your camera roll. It uses EyeEm Vision, our image recognition and aesthetic rank technology to keyword based on thousands of locations, topics and events; and give each photo a score from 1 to 100. It stacks similar photos, placing the image with the highest score on top. You can read more about it on TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/12...
Thanks to the whole team that made this happen! We hope this makes your photo library smarter so you can spend less time searching and more time discovering the photos you really love.
Please let us know what you think! Happy to answer any questions.
@lorenz Hi Lorenz. Congrats to you and the whole team at Eye'Em. Incredible technology and great looking App. Absolutely blown away by the image recognition.
This looks interesting. I'm processing my photos on my phone now. I guess it's going to take a while. Unlike many, my phone is not my primary camera. Are there any plans for a desktop version or a lightroom plugin?
I am really tempted as I need a way to organise my 40 thousand photo library that got a bit mixed up during the various moved between iPhoto, Aperture, iPhoto again and the Photo both on the Mac and on the iPhone.
But I am a bit afraid, how stable is the product.
How does it affect my library in the Cloud, what about the existing keywords I spent hours to add (through Keyword manager), is there a risk to lose those existing keywords? at which level are the suggested keywords added....
And BTW, what is the business model?
@pvk Hey Pascal - The Roll just taps into the iOS Photos Framework and displays your photos in a better way that is based on our computer vision tech. The photos on your device remain unchanged in Apple's "Photos" and you do not require additional memory. Your photos are not stored anywhere else than on your phone. If you have further questions, just give me a shout.
From the privacy policy: "All photos reviewed and organized via the App will only be saved temporarily on servers for the duration of the review process. The photos will be deleted immediately upon completion of such process. We will not make your photos available to others and we will not store them. No human will ever see your photos during the review process."
Will this chew up a lot of data? Are full-res images sent to you guys?
@anodigital hey Brian, we upload small thumbnails of your photos, and we limit the number of images uploaded when you're not on WiFi specifically in order to not drain your data plan. The photos are removed permanently from our servers right after they're scored (within milliseconds).
@pvk I too am curious how it will affect my existing tags & photos in the cloud. What's the catch? Seems like I must be missing something. Also, could you please be more specific about the privacy policy - i.e. Data sent to you guys / stored with you, etc.
@anodigital @pvk we don't edit or overwrite your photos or tags. All keywords and scores are stored on the app on your device. The photos (thumbnails) are uploaded temporarily to our servers, scored, and promptly removed. None of your photos are seen by humans, or stored on our servers.
The app looks amazing and I can't wait to get into it. Does the flow of the app end by uploading the pictures somewhere? Or would that be possible? I'm also curious to know if your app uses any AI?
*Sorry, I just noticed the note by the New York Times regarding AI. Could you expand on how you use AI? Even just a paragraph would be sweet.
Congratulations to Florian, Ramzi and team for this wonderful tech. We saw an early prototype and were blown away by the functionality and simplicity. This definitely is the future of the camera roll if you ask us. Curious to see where it will go from here!
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