Everyday.me (YC S12) - an "Evernote for Your Life"

As an introvert who is in the process of deleting their facebook account for privacy reasons, I see real value in this. I'd like to keep a private journal more in line path/instagram/twitter - just for me. That being said I have a couple pieces of advice:<p>Make sure I can export ALL of the data, anytime. Make sure you securely backup all of my data. CHARGE ME for this service, so I know you won't sell my data. Only way I'll do this is if you address my privacy concerns.

Every comment so far (except for developer responses) is negative. Sad state of affairs.<p>With that said I would like to congratulate the developers. Good work. More choice is good for everybody.

&#62; An iPhone and web app called Everyday.me<p>Right, so I get into the "private beta" and go to the link in the email. It gives me a popup saying, "Please use an iPhone to install this app."<p>Meanwhile, on their homepage: &#62; Access from anywhere - on mobile, email, or the web<p>If having an iPhone is a requirement of using your website (which I assume functions perfectly well on its own), you're doing it wrong. If the website is merely a way to view (but not edit) your content, then you're REALLY doing it wrong.<p>Also, why are people still developing exclusively for iPhone? Last quarter there were four times as many Android phones sold as iPhones.

Nice App. I worked on this Idea for quite long time and discussed with many web developers as I am not into web development.Many suggested me to learn and develop but I couldn't. That is a different story. My perspective was different and it was not just simple Private Journal of your personal life.It meant to improve your way of life. I thought of many features which can do so. For example: Capture moment and also mark some as milestones along with its type as good/bad or traits like new learning's/adventurous etc etc. Thus at any point of time if you look back, how your time period(last year lets say) had been. you will know if it was insipid or adventurous or had any new learnings etc and where you need to improve. Pls feel free to discuss with me if you need more feature ideas.

After reading this, I still don't know what this is. Other than being like facebook, a notebook, twitter, blogs, a private journal, and Evernote, not that I've ever heard of Evernote before. How can something be like a facebook timeline and private at the same time?<p>Why is it so difficult for people to describe their new service? Alternatively, why am I so bad at understanding?

Does TechCrunch have an army of upvoters? just seems like their posts come from nowhere to the front page with almost no discussion.

Another startup being prominently featured on Techcrunch started by "ex-Googlers" I swear every startup that gets Techcrunch coverage was started by ex-Googlers. That all side, I don't see what makes Everyday.me so special (I don't mean to sound so cynical) but what makes this application different in comparison to all of the other available services and mobile applications that do the same thing? Evernote is one of those applications that comes to mind.<p>It looks to me Everyday.me borrows heavily from the Facebook timeline except it's private. I don't see how Everyday.me is different to Facebook Timeline and Path especially. Am I missing something big here that makes Everyday.me a "killer startup" please kindly put me in my place if I am. To add to the confusion further, what do YC see in Everyday.me to make it worthy of being funded?

I'm not sure if I would feel comfortable having my private journals on someone else's server.

I like the idea. Though I don't like social anything, would a smart long game here be, after many users, to turn this into a social network where users can opt to change their content from private to public ?<p>Millions of profiles could go live on the same day? All individual content as well as types of content (tweets, images, posts, etc) could have public/private flag, giving you ultimate control but also free to have all tweets or images display instantly from twitter or instagram?

While I'm not a target customer I'm sure you'll find early adopters thanks to YC&#38;TC. Launching is hard, so congrats on that. That being said, I am still trying to wrap my head around the whole 'limited sharing' trend. Path got the ball rolling and has gotten pretty popular. Then came the sharing between couples - Pair, cupple etc. (seriously?) And now no sharing but just journaling for yourself ? How do you guys make money ?

For a long time I tried to build a lifelogging app, something pretty similar to this, hell, we even went to the YC interview with that idea. I love this space &#38; I love seeing someone tackle the problem with such a simple &#38; clean app. This is actually something I would use myself: no numbers, no social bullshit. Just a simple app to keep track of my day. Great job! Good luck &#38; godspeed!

Nice idea, and I'm eager to use it day to day, but one small quibble: It would be nice if the setting allowed me to set the language - you currently set the language based on the location, right? Assuming the language of the land is my preferred language setting is not correct.<p>Can we use location services <i>and</i> set the language preference?

Send a similar pitch to ycomb S12 ;)<p>here are my small feedback:<p>1. concentrate on collaborative experience, mixing together social feed from different user on the same experience 2. i absolutely hate daily mail :) 3. UI is a little bit boring 4. guess travel are the best fit for this app 5. grab the future of people, not only the past :)

So when they shut the service down in 18 months and kill all access to our data, will they be quick to point out that "indefinitely" = for as long as they are profitable? Now I'm not saying this is what's going to happen, but you would have to be foolish not to consider this the most likely outcome.

Looks really excellent. Wanted to check it out to see if it's something I could get in to - didn't realise it was iPhone only until I already gave over my email address. Would be nice if this was clear on the website.

Evernote already is for my life. This is going nowhere.

Why would I voluntarily hand over all this data to a third party if the only person who SHOULD ever consume the data is me?

too much techcrunch on YC

How do they do the web page to install iPhone app, without you going into the app store?

But can you export your data?

previous discuss <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4336977" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4336977</a>

Sounds like evertale.

No privacy policy?

Yet another startup trying to use the success, brand or popularity of other companies or products to attract customers. Everyday.me, how about defining <i>yourselves</i> instead of "We're the Facebook of" or "an Evernote for?" Be <i>confident</i> about your product--that it can stand on its own and has merit above and beyond what competitors can offer.