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Hatch — A photo-sharing experiment. Follows tags, not people. iOS 8.
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@dzuy very slick. how are you distributing this? do you have an enterprise developer account?
@machinehuman yup. known issue. interesting that it actually installed though because i'm pretty sure we were only targeting iOS8.
Cool! We tried building a very similar app a year ago, but found it difficult to get traction around any one particular topic. We changed direction to curated topics specific to one target demographic (designers). I would love to hear your thoughts on getting traction around specific topics/hashtags. Looking forward to checking it out!
@roryreiff we originally only had curated topics but as an experiment, we wanted to see if users would create something more interesting so we also created this idea of a "hashtag challenge" to see what happens
@dzuy Hatch looks great. I was quite surprised the #hipster section is empty!
By the way, what are you guys using to distribute this beta?
@1ultimatedesign we're using enterprise distribution. it's not great for managing builds or anything but it works well for our bigger experiments.
We created Hatch to see if people would want to follow hashtags of interest rather than other users. It could be great for seeing an endless stream of #CatsWithHatsOn while also giving you the ability to ignore all #TBT tags if you’re just not interested. Even more interesting, could Hatch potentially be a live news resource to see images of trending tags/event (i.e. #ferguson) - a much more streamlined image search to see what’s going on right now without all the additional hashtag noise?
We don’t exactly know what Hatch is just yet but we’re excited to experiment and just see what happens. Give this Product Hunt exclusive Beta a run (requires iOS8) and let me know what you think.
Update, 1:20pm: Just added stickers, live image filters (swipe on open camera) and text on photos. You have to reinstall to see these updates. Let me know what you guys think!
@dzuy I really like that like that you don't need to set up an account to start using Hatch! You guys did a great job on the design. What font are you using? Proxima Nova?
Have you considered pulling in photos from Twitter to beef up your content pool?
@robjama font is actually Avenir! We did pull from twitter but it brought in so much redundant junk that it was useless. For example, you'd look at #dogs and it would bring back tons of retweeted photos of a half naked woman.
But that's sort of the point of this experiment. Because everywhere else people put a bunch of non-relevant tags where on Hatch, it's just one tag.
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