Positive reflections and personal storytelling (plus platform architecture making the most of many of the SaaS/PaaS Free Tiers currently available)

1. How was your
weekend?
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How was your weekend?

2. How many of you commute?
>1 hour total / day
(At least 1 day a week)
>2 hours total / day

3. “How was your weekend?”

4. Three Good Things
Each day you reflect on 3 good things that have
happened to you and the causes
Martin Seligman

5. …..
Happy Jar

6. Thousand to one nine

7. Became a good habit

8. Two types of weekend:
After an amazing weekend,
limiting to just 9 pictures can
be tricky
After an un-eventful weekend,
forces me to find more
interesting elements in the
everyday

9. #reflectingontheweekend
while on the train into
London
December 2015

10. #ReflectingOnTheWeekend
as I sit in Heathrow
departures, waiting for my
flight to Germany

11. Social sharing

12. Flickr

13. https://benseymour.com/reflecting/
Flickr API

14. Side Passion Project

15. Quick Mock

16. Digital Ocean $10 p/m

19. If you could design your own social/family
sharing platform - what would be most
important to you?
To Ponder
In this room - (more than almost any other):
YOU CAN

20. Respect Attention: No Adverts/Tangents
(not driven by engagement metrics )
Family friendly: protection for kids
Collaborative
Reduced external validation
(no likes, no follower counts)
Privacy : No data mining

21. Editing UI

23. Digital Ocean (core) $10 p/m
Digital Ocean Image Manipulation $10++ p/m
Cloudflare : Free Tier

24. Further Story Types
vlog, alog, 360

25. Aspect Ratios
Crop to square
(considering focus point/faces)
Performance optimisation
Video
360
Growing Media Manipulation Needs

26. Side Project rules
Time is the scarcest resource - time
saving makes the project more viable.
Momentum can have a big impact on
motivation
Also - budget!

28. Media management and manipulation (Cloudinary)*
ar_1:1 : crop to square
g_auto : automatic intelligent cropping
(auto face/object detection!)
q_auto : auto compression
f_auto : auto image format
vc_auto : auto video encoding
ar_1:1 : video aspect ratio change
(with intelligent cropping!)
360 video

29. * disclaimer:
I liked Cloudinary so much I
bought joined the company

30. Monthly Costs
AWS : Free Tier (Beanstalk, S3)
MongoDB Atlas : Free Tier (512MB)
Cloudinary : Free Tier (25 units)
Cloudflare : Free Tier (inc. SSL)
$0

31. When I asked friends and family
and friends what they honestly
thought was missing:
Multi device workflows
Multi-lingual
Hard of hearing support
Colour blind support
Crap poor connectivity

32. Original e_simulate_colorblind:protanopia e_assist_colorblind:8

34. Auto Video transcription
Can be baked into video

35. Mother(’s) tongue

36. webspeedtest.cloudinary.com
q_auto,f_auto

37. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes…
Is it really worth all this time…?

39. “The stories that we tell about our lives,
become the story of our lives”

40. @bseymourhttps://storyus.lifehttps://cloudinary.com
Have a great weekend