Snap.today (previously Selfie-A-Day)

[dotproto]

Basic Idea

Web app that lets you take a selfie every day. After you've collected several photos, you can turn it into a video of how you've changed over time. Here's an extreme example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPzXlMdi7o

Photos are saved locally and backed up to Firebase for persistent storage. There are tons of possible features like guidelines to help you line up your face, offline-first user experience, automatically emailing a gif to the user once a week/month/year, etc.

Technologies involved

• Core Technologies - Required for MVP
  • JavaScript (language)
  • A JS application framework (considering Ember.js, hoodie, React+Flux, choo)
  • getUserMedia
  • Firebase JS SDK (realtime database, cloud storage)
• Supplemental Technologies - Things I'm thinking about adding once the basic app works
  • ServiceWorker (Intro to SW, MDN)
  • notifications
• Future Specs
  • MediaCapture Image (Draft, Nightly) (better API for taking photos)

[dotproto]

This is a project I've been meaning to get around to forever and have the domain snap.today for the project.

[leighphan]

@svincent I'm interested in contributing in whatever way I can!

[dotproto]

@leighphan Happy to have the help! I need to throw together a quick Twitter timeline demo at the pairing meetup tonight, but after that I'd be happy to start working on setting up the basics of the project with you 😁