I talked a bit about Emotish, a free photo-sharing iPhone app that I developed - and the board games database that inspired it - at the December 2012 Chicago Quantified Self Show & Tell Meetup.

1. board games,
emotions, &
general self-obsession
dan bretl

3. i heart self data
gps tracks
amount of sleep
daily rating
daily goals
time distribution
physical activity
weight
tennis scores
golf (& mini-golf) scores

4. board games db
filemaker pro (old school)
translate score to performance
calculate all-time rating
record players’ moods

5. “mood photos”

6. “mood photos”
aggressive

7. i am self-obsessed
aren’t we all?
photos of myself
online presence
self reflection
self analysis
self reference

8. i am overly emotional
(i anthropomorphized my notebook)

9. i love apple &
thus, emotish iOS

10. i love apple &
thus, emotish iOS

11. thus, emotish
february - april 2012
niche photo sharing
novel UI & UX
community content
built with parse

12. why, emotish?
creative expression
emotional awareness
learning languages
teaching emotions
(to humans, &
to computers)

13. dream of a startup
1 million users in the first week
300+k photos
written up in techcrunch
featured by apple
$5M venture capital raised

14. reality of a startup
1 thousand users all time
3+k photos posted
written up in... a couple blogs
ignored by apple
what’s venture capital?

15. looking back
don’t bring your personal project
to a startup (or do?)
the product is important, but
marketing is even more important

16. moving forward
self tracking is easy(er) on mobile
parse makes anything possible
self tracking is fun, but
enabling self tracking is more fun
trick people into self tracking
(it’s a photo sharing app!)

17. i like people
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(on pretty much any
service you can think of)
emotish.com
(join me!)