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Thanks! NanaGram’s made a big difference for them and I’m glad we gave up nights/weeekends to build it. The photos also give us more stuff to talk about during

Thanks! NanaGram’s made a big difference for them and I’m glad we gave up nights/weeekends to build it. The photos also give us more stuff to talk about during visits. One other interesting unanticipated side effect is that we built the service to let your (approved) family all send photos into the same phone number for the same delivery. There’s a web UI that you can log into and see all the photos. You also get a text notification when new photos are sent in by someone else. Now my siblings and I have a private social network of sorts. There’s stuff on there I wouldn’t share to the world at large, but would with my family. It’s a good way to keep updated with what’s going on with my family too.

cpeterso 9y ago
Do you have offline advertising of NanaGram in retirement communities? That seems like a great way to reach more customers. Get "Nana" and the retirement community staff to market your product for you. :) Another idea: if the photo has any date/time or location metadata, you could print that on the photo so the recipient has more information about the photos when they look at them later.
- aacook 9y ago
  Thinking about things like that but don't want to end up like Saul Goodman. Reddit suggested an Adopt a Nana last week (https://redd.it/7fg6q3 https://redd.it/7fg6q3) which I love in theory but would need to go deep on to make it work in practice.
- aacook 9y ago
  I hadn't thought of metadata yet. I'm unsure if it comes through MMS. I'll have to check. We do know who is sending in the photo and we support captions (scroll down to the mushroom hunting photos for an example). When captions get added, we add the name and date of the user who added the photo. Lots of improvements to make in this area, for example, I'll probably release a way to insert full note cards (maybe 1 free per order) into the shipment this month.
  - cpeterso 9y ago
    Your caption examples are what made me think of the photo metadata, other content/context you could include in the photo. However, the user's own captions are probably more meaningful (and easier to implement ;). Photo metadata might be low quality or wrong if the image happens to get transcoded somewhere in the pipeline from camera to MMS to mobile carrier network to your service.
    - aacook 9y ago
      This is a good point - need to get those images on the home page up to date to reflect the current functionality which inserts the name. Thanks a bunch for all the feedback.

cpeterso 9y ago

Do you have offline advertising of NanaGram in retirement communities? That seems like a great way to reach more customers. Get "Nana" and the retirement community staff to market your product for you. :) Another idea: if the photo has any date/time or location metadata, you could print that on the photo so the recipient has more information about the photos when they look at them later.

aacook 9y ago
Thinking about things like that but don't want to end up like Saul Goodman. Reddit suggested an Adopt a Nana last week (https://redd.it/7fg6q3 https://redd.it/7fg6q3) which I love in theory but would need to go deep on to make it work in practice.
aacook 9y ago
I hadn't thought of metadata yet. I'm unsure if it comes through MMS. I'll have to check. We do know who is sending in the photo and we support captions (scroll down to the mushroom hunting photos for an example). When captions get added, we add the name and date of the user who added the photo. Lots of improvements to make in this area, for example, I'll probably release a way to insert full note cards (maybe 1 free per order) into the shipment this month.
- cpeterso 9y ago
  Your caption examples are what made me think of the photo metadata, other content/context you could include in the photo. However, the user's own captions are probably more meaningful (and easier to implement ;). Photo metadata might be low quality or wrong if the image happens to get transcoded somewhere in the pipeline from camera to MMS to mobile carrier network to your service.
  - aacook 9y ago
    This is a good point - need to get those images on the home page up to date to reflect the current functionality which inserts the name. Thanks a bunch for all the feedback.