Board Games, Emotish, & Self-Obsession

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.

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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. thus, emotish i love apple & iOS
10. thus, emotish i love apple & 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 danbretl.com danbretl@gmail.com @danbretl danbretl... (on pretty much any service you can think of) emotish.com (join me!)