45
points
51
comments justsendrecord.com
...because Apple make it too hard to navigate chronologically through anything but your photos. Really they should have let you do this directly from voice memos so that you can share whenever and to wherever you want.
If anyone has any suggestions to make it better, let me know. Thanks.
Question / feedback — why is there no way to see what one of these looks like on the website? You have a header that says "see it in action" that literally doesn't allow you to see the video you're saying it produces.
I have an idea in my mind of what it looks like but I think you'd do well to have multiple examples illustrating different situations where this product could be useful.
I think you have a point, I should make this app's intent clearer.
It would be great if I could also add some pictures and have it create transitions while the audio plays. If I only pick one photo, it could just display the image with the waveform on top.
I like sending a picture of myself, or a few of my dogs, cats and gf, because it adds that human touch that IMO is needed when talking to family and friends.
If you could make my mouth move with the audio, I'd definitely be willing to pay more for it.
Great work!
Forgive me, as I'm not a heavy Voice Memos user, but I'm a bit confused by problem statement.
Voice Memos seem to be ordered chronologically, and named after the location where they were taken (unless manually named), which seems decent unless you star getting a ton.
From the Voice Memos app I can share them to Messages, Mail, etc. Is the issue that you wanted to be able to select a voice memo to share from within Messages, instead of the other way around? Or is this more for posting audio only to social networks that only support video, and having a waveform instead of a random video of something else?
The "See it in action" section doesn't really show it in action ? There's a picture but it's abstract, is it representative ? Are there multiple styles ? Is it just an image or a video ? Just looking at this I don't really know. Consider putting a gif/video preview in there so we get a better idea and/or add multiple examples ?
It got more confusing when I got below and saw the "How to use" > "visualize" section below where you have a mountain picture ? So which is it ?
Also maybe add video somewhere when you mention mp4, for non tech users. Visualization (which you use a lot in your text) doesn't convey that to me, but just my 2 cents!
It sounds like it just creates a recording and saves this in a video format with some visual, which is alright I guess.
Perhaps it's because I'm more of an Android person, but does ios really not have a file browser?!?!
I'm really grateful for the time you took to write a comment to me thank you.
So as long as you don't install random apks (and enable the option that allows this) or give arbitrary/untrustworthy apps full file system access (also specifically enabled) then you're good.
I believe this is an attempt at trying to level up the Voice Memos feature which has been neglected compared to other OS features.
Apple could take inspiration from this little app and build something brilliant using AI and machine learning.
- An app that animates your photos and lets you record a message on top
- Or a feature in iOS that converts any audio into text and lets you summarise 2 or 5 minute voice messages into a paragraph. I don't have time to listen to long audios. And please, don't just add it to Messages, add it to iOS.
- Or an app that turns your voice messages into a video with subtitles for people who can't hear, with animations, background moving, colours, and all the AI jazz.
- Or even better, an app that creates images based on what you're saying in the audio.
I don't know, there are so many cool ideas floating around.
Apple really needs to start showcasing its AI capabilities. Even the camera software feels behind. I keep upgrading the hardware & software and barely see any difference.
Tim, if you are reading this: Stay hungry, stay foolish!
Whereas Android wanted SDK + app storefront from the get-go. The "Androids" book has this quote: "I wanted a fourteen-year old kid sitting in Kansas to be able to write an app in the morning and upload it in the afternoon to Android Market and have it go out to sell to all the customers."
Can't recommend this book so much though - it has some interesting bits but it's just not technical enough/the writing style is very same-ey across the book (which makes sense since they're telling the same part of the story from different perspectives) but it just gets very boring reading essentially the same phrases etc over & over.
I think "behind" because they are risk averse and short of a unifying vision atm. Share holder satisfaction and unimaginative decision making perhaps?
I just hope Tim's gamble pays off and we start seeing some amazing apps soon. Because Siri was a massive flop (cool tech, but completely useless), the camera software feels outdated compared to some Android phones, and the 3D emojis felt like a bad marketing idea to get kids playing with their parents phones and hooked on Apple (just like McDonald's did with Ronald the clown).
Being able to start the camera without unlocking the phone is a good step, but you can also delete the footage just recorded if someone apprehends your device. I would be interested in the option to not be able to delete that footage.
I would also be interested in being able to live-broadcast (maybe just audio?) to someone else's device to prevent the evidence from being destroyed also without having to unlock your phone.
Nitpick, but MP4 is a container format. It doesn't say anything about codecs used. I assume it's h264+aac since this is for Apple people?
I'll just backup my audio recordings to Dropbox (Android).
The output video has a “Made with Just Send Record” watermark. Is there an in-app way to omit or remove this watermark?
Erm.... Yeah. I wish people would spend two hours creating an honest webpage for their project instead of letting AI come up with some bullshit.