@fdorfbauer Cheers. Yes, currently the search is limited to places and users, but we will continue to optimize it including also the possibility to search for trip titles or parts of those strings. Haven't yet thought about using tags, I guess you mean something similar as we know it from pinterest? Might something really interesting, that we'll look at in more detail.
@allanberger Cheers! Yeah, we see people really enjoying this feature. Especially as each country in the world has a unique, handmade stamp. At the moment I guess it's too easy to get these stamps, though. And as you already pointed out in your question, this could be a nice gamification element. So next year it could happen that you get the stamps only when you do posts from the related countries. We also think of providing special stamps that also change from time to time. Like a special stamp for a post from the Eiffel Tower.
Great to be on producthunt. I personally invite you to check out the biggest update in the history of journi and probably also one of the biggest changes to travel blogging/journaling. You can now, more than ever enjoy traveling while at the same time making your travels unforgettable. Capture, Share, Relive and now also Explore! Have fun, doing what you love! Looking forward to your feedback. #lifeisajourni
Hey Andreas, I have been following Journi for quite some time now – great product! I think Explore is a nice feature, though it would be great to make lists of favorites. What's your take on that?
@_bernhard Thanks for the feedback. Totally know what you mean. Because once you found something great you want to save it, right? E.g. all journis for your next trip to Greece. Let me assure you that we have this already on our todo list.
Wow, that's a very nice update! I'm currently following a friend's trip there, and some of the shots are really amazing – I was wondering if there's some sort of a possibility to create a photobook out of those, maybe via some export function, or do you maybe have anything planned in this direction?
@gkaindl Thanks a lot for the feedback and great that you enjoy following your friend's journi. At the moment we don't have such a feature, but soon you'll have the possibility to additionally save your journis to your favorite cloud drive and we are already evaluating how we could make a journi really tangible as a photo book. But I can't tell exactly when we'll have it ready. But we are on it. Stay tuned.
@3x14159265 thanks. yes, we especially want to rank trips from friends higher in your search results. same for the explore section itself where we'd also like to learn with the trips you like most. Moreover we are going to add the possibility to search for certain terms, e.g. bike tour or honeymoon.
@andreaspizsa Thanks for the question. journi is much more than Instagram. Instagram is more for communicating single moments rather than a full story. Some would even say it's more for bragging. Also it is not possible to organize your moments and share them just with a specific group of people. At journi you can create as many timelines/blogs as you like and say timeline A is just for me, timeline B is for close friends and family and C is public. Last but not least it is simply not made for travelers. journi works perfectly offline and has a nice map overview of your travel moments.
@mahringer_a Thanks <3 Totally understand what you mean. We would actually love to work with @airbnb. Fun fact, they were one of the first to invite us to their HQ when we launched in SF. Hope to chat with them again these days.
@aimario Thanks. Well you are right. Actually we already see some users who use it for different scenarios. E.g. mothers or families keeping a journal about their kids, craftsmen documenting their projects and we see especially the group journaling feature be used very often for weddings or similar events. At the moment we'll further concentrate on the biggest use case, which is travel. But for the future we are open to enter also other market segments.
@reiter_jakob Thanks a lot! We will launch a premium subscription with a bunch of special features in January 2017. Cloud drive integration and some special stickers will be part of it. Stay tuned for the rest. ;)
@johahnleung export will be available to private cloud drives like iCloud or DropBox. But you probably refer to something like a wordpress widget to implement journi in an existing blog? Would be interesting to learn more about your thoughts.
@aroettl Sorry for the late reply - been travelling :D (and using Journi).
Yes, I am curious about the possibility of Wordpress integration. Journi's feature set makes it handy for quick, frictionless input. But there are also times when one wishes to elaborate on the Journi short blog format into more substantive prose for wider distribution post-hoc.
Also, what do you see as the main differentiating factors between Journi and Polarsteps?
@johahnleung great to hear from you. hope you had an awesome time traveling with journi. I'd love to see a wordpress integration, but we have to do more customer development on that first. I'll set you on our list of interested people for the feature.
In comparison to Polarsteps journi has a completely different UI/UX approach (what you probably already realized), the goal of this approach is to make everything as intuitive and easy as possible, while at the same time deliver a beautiful story for every adventure. In addition there are a lot of features that Polarsteps does not offer like the group journaling, categories, the passport, etc.
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