Daily Selfie App

Cool idea and straightforward experience.

I’m curious how you’re approaching retention. With daily photo apps, the challenge often becomes keeping users engaged week after week. Are you experimenting with reminders or any other hooks?

Thanks for sharing this.

This is a seriously impressive feature list.

One thing I’m curious about: how do users currently decide what success looks like in the app?

For example, do you see people sticking around because of the final video, or because the daily habit itself feels rewarding?

My instinct is that the next big lever might be less about more features and more about reinforcing the habit loop (streaks, milestones, “don’t break the chain”).

Curious what you’re seeing from real usage so far.

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Love the focus — “daily selfie” is a clear habit product and that’s a huge advantage. If I were choosing the next feature, I’d optimize for retention, not complexity: add a simple streak + gentle reminders + 1-line reflection/mood note so users build a daily ritual. The biggest win is getting people to their “first meaningful moment” within 24 hours.

Looks awesome man. Aside from "delete account", how else did you ensure privacy ? Also how do you earn money from this?

I like this a lot. Simple idea, yet a lot of advanced fun features. I’m kind of a cause-and-effect-data-geek, and would love to see a connection between changes in physical apperance and other measures — ”these are my sleeping data and these are the physical effects of that. As you can see I was sleep deprived during week x and check out my face”

Cool idea — and I like that you’re thinking about what to build next instead of just adding random features.
Before building more, I’d focus on retention: what makes someone come back daily?
My suggestion: add a streak + reminder loop (simple daily prompt + notification) and a weekly recap (“here’s your week in 7 photos”). That creates habit + emotional value.
If you want a quick test: ask 5 users why they came back today — build the next feature around that answer.

Love the simplicity and intention behind this app. In a world where photo apps try to do everything, focusing on a daily selfie habit feels refreshingly specific and meaningful. It’s one of those ideas that makes you think about long term progress over instant gratification, and I can see it becoming something people genuinely look forward to opening every day.

The design and onboarding feel intuitive, which matters a lot for something you want people to stick with. Curious whether you’ve seen users adopt creative routines around it, like mood tracking or personal reflections alongside their photos. Either way, it’s a cool take on helping people capture moments without overwhelming them with options.

This is already really polished. ~

I think you are probably past the stage where extra features are the bottleneck.

The question is probably more about “What factors contribute to someone sticking after day 7?”

What does retention look like at the moment?

This is seriously impressive; the camera precision + face alignment alone fixes why most “photo a day” apps fail.

If I had to pick one thing to add: shared collections. Doing a timelapse with a partner, trainer, or even a small challenge group would be a huge motivation boost.

I’d personally skip AI aging and lean more into AI insights (when change actually starts, biggest progress window, etc.). Social templates are nice, but private motivation matters more first.

As someone who’s built totally different stuff (I recently created vape site projects), this feels like the rare app where features aren’t the problem anymore, habit psychology is.

Really solid work.

Hi Mohammed,

Great work and congrats on 1k+ downloads on the Android Play Store.

What would you say are your most high-impact features?

I get the sense that the app takes it for granted that people want to take photos every day and just need to be reminded, i.e. the only friction point is forgetfulness.

My hunch is that people want to have a time-lapse video, because it communicates consistency, growth, and reflectiveness, and also it just looks cool on a feed. But as with most things, people want it but not the boring, chore-like stuff that goes into eventually getting one at the end of six months or a year or whatever period lends itself best to a hashtag.

That's where I suspect you haven't invested enough, friend.

I don't think there's enough emotional payoff to keep a person coming back to take a new photo every day. I've only just downloaded and tested it, so I could be wrong, but it feels like a fleshed-out app feature-wise, but not experience-wise.

In essence, I think you've inverted where you give users freedom and where you control/guide the experience.

Here's what I do:

Create different consistency periods with different earned rewards.

A person commits to taking pictures doing a certain thing (gym, for instance) 31 days in a row, they get a specific filter, video style, etc. that they can't get otherwise.

And if they commit to once a week, 52 times a year, they also get a corresponding filter, video style, etc.

I would also introduce stakes. If you don't show up three times in a row, consecutively or otherwise, you're out. All the photos are gone. You have to start again. (Maybe if you're PRO you get another chance).

Add short-term payoffs.

As things stand, the app lacks strategic friction in two ways:

1. I can install it, take 5 pictures, change the dates on them (that feature's available), and make a video.

2. If I log in every single day for 365 days and take pictures, I can make a video on any of those days, so what's the unique payoff on day 365?
   

That's why I'd say until a person reaches the "unveil" date by showing up consistently, they should get some form of encouragement or reward. It's possible and quite simple in hindsight if you really brainstorm it.

Tie it into people's goals/growth journeys

Yeah, the phrase "growth journeys" makes me cringe too, but anyway...

Right now, taking a photo every day is a goal unto itself. I think you could go further by making this app a part of the goals people are already striving for, a part of them showing up every day.

So when they get the video, they don't just have the video but also the real-world result of whatever they were consistent at. AND the app also served the function of helping them stay accountable. It became part of the ritual of "putting in work."

Shift to more emotive positioning.

Following from the above point, I think you can do a lot better than "Photo Everyday." That's the mechanism, but it's not the emotional job-to-be-done. People want to feel they've been through a journey, they've persevered, they've documented, they've accomplished, or maybe failed and learned.

In other words, there's a difference between the app's function and its purpose. Right now I think you're only communicating function, which is fine when a pain point is simple enough and acute, which isn't the case here.

I don't wanna go on too long so I'll stop there. Those are just my thoughts by the way. You have plenty more context.

All the best, mate.

Cool! Will be interesting to compare how I look when coming up with a new seemingly great idea vs months of work later when there are still no results hahaha

Keep it up 👌👌

That’s really great and interesting

Respect for shipping and sharing this publicly.
Building in public isn’t easy, but it’s usually where the real learning happens.

Keep going.

Capture one photo every day and watch your journey transform into a stunning timelapse video. Photo Everyday App turns simple selfies into meaningful visual stories effortlessly.

This is such a cool idea. Turning daily selfies into a timelapse video makes personal growth feel so real.

Love the simplicity and emotional pull of Daily Selfie — helping people see their own story over time is a powerful hook. One instinct I have as a copywriter is to lean even harder into situational outcomes in your messaging (e.g., “Watch your journey, not just your face”). Right now apps like Selfie A Day sell the concept, but the real conversion lift often comes from painting the before/after emotional journey — the “I’ll finally feel proud of my progress” moment. If you can frame the product around repeat engagement loops (timelapse reveal + reminders + shareable highlight clips), you’ll tap both habitual use and social sharing motivation — which are the two levers habit-based consumer apps really live or die by.

I've seen those timelapse videos of the same person through 5+ years. Nice to see there's an easy way to do that!

nice idea

This is one of those products where the “boring” part (consistency) is the actual moat. The ghost overlay + face guides solve the real problem that ruins every timelapse, and the payoff weeks later is exactly right. Huge respect for treating photos like data points, not just a camera roll.

Loved your idea. Keep up the good work.

Great idea

A Photo Everyday App allows users to take one selfie each day and automatically turns these photos into a timelapse video. The app tracks daily changes over time, creating a meaningful visual story of personal growth. It is easy to use, stores photos securely, and lets users share their timelapse videos with friends or on social media.

Great, another app to remind me how fat I'm getting. haha JK really cool idea!

This hits home! As a dad, I tried doing a 'photo-a-day' for my son manually, but I eventually gave up because the alignment was always off and the final video looked too jittery.

I really like your approach of treating consistency as a UX problem (the ghost overlay is a game-changer).

One technical question: I noticed you mentioned a 'dedicated backend video engine' for the processing. Since I'm a big fan of local-first apps (currently building one myself), I'm curious if you considered doing the video generation on-device (via FFmpeg or similar)? Or was the performance/battery trade-off just too high for mobile?

Great work on the launch!

This is a really thoughtful build 👏
Love how you treated consistency as a UX + camera problem, not a motivation one — the ghost overlay and face guides are especially smart.

The idea that the wow moment happens weeks later really resonates. That’s rare and powerful product thinking.

Curious: what was the hardest part to get right — real-time camera guidance or the backend video processing?

This is a great breakdown, especially the framing that consistency is a UX problem, not a motivation problem. That distinction feels very real for habit-based products.

I also liked how much emphasis you put on the camera experience itself — guiding behavior at capture time instead of trying to “fix” inconsistency later. That kind of upfront constraint usually pays off months down the line.

The point about the wow moment happening weeks after install really resonated too. That delay is hard to design for, but it’s often where the real value shows up.

This is quite interesting. I’ve seen a lot of videos with this output that really grab the attention. How do you sustain people’s active taking of selfies daily?

great dude