How would you explain a place-based memory app in one App Store screenshot?

How would you explain a place-based memory app in one App Store screenshot?

I'm Alperen, co-founder of iz. We're building an iOS and Android app that connects photos, notes, songs and book memories to real places, so you can revisit them on a map.

The positioning question I'm working on: the map explains how it works, but does it explain why someone would want it?

I'm considering three opening messages:

A. Your memories, back where they happened.

B. Save the song that takes you back to that cafe.

C. Turn your travels into a personal memory map.

A is broader, B gives one emotional example, and C is easy to understand but may make it sound useful only while travelling. The next screenshot could show one saved memory at a place, before showing a whole map.

For anyone marketing a consumer app: which would you test first, and what would you expect the second screenshot to explain? I'd also love to hear if the concept still sounds like extra work compared with a camera roll.

Product context, if useful: https://iz.city/en/ (our app; free to download with optional in-app purchases). I'm looking for honest positioning feedback, rather than claiming any growth results.

u/AlperenEser — 7 days ago

We built a social app where the place comes before the profile — what would make you leave the first trace?

My co-founder and I have been building iz, a location-based social app for leaving writing, music, book notes and photo postcards at real places. The difficult part was not the map; it was making a place feel alive without turning the product into another follower-and-like feed.

The current loop is: leave a trace → someone discovers it → they can send a feeling → the owner must accept before a match and private chat open.

We are trying to improve first-session activation. If you installed this at a campus or in your city, what would make you leave your first trace within three minutes? I am especially interested in reasons you would not do it. I’m the founder, and the iOS/Android links are in my profile if context helps.

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u/AlperenEser — 1 month ago
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Bir kitap cümlesini gerçek bir yere bırakmak ister miydiniz?

Merhaba, moderatör izniyle paylaşıyorum. Ben iz adlı uygulamanın iki kurucusundan biriyim.

Okurken altını çizdiğimiz cümlelerin çoğu kitapta kalıyor. Biz bu cümlelerin gerçek bir mekânda başka bir okura ulaşabileceği bir özellik geliştirdik: Kullanıcı bir kitap cümlesini veya kısa düşüncesini “kitap izi” olarak bir sahafa, kafeye, parka ya da kütüphane çevresine bırakabiliyor. Daha sonra o yere gelen biri izi keşfedebiliyor.

Bu özellik canlı konum paylaşmıyor ve insanları takip etmiyor. Yalnızca kullanıcının bilerek bıraktığı izin konumu görünür; konuşma da ancak karşılıklı istek olursa açılır.

Uygulama Android’de ücretsiz olarak yayında. Deneyenlerden puan veya olumlu yorum istemiyoruz; özellikle şu soruya dürüst cevap arıyoruz: Bir kitap izi bulduğunuzda sizi yanıt vermeye daha çok ne iterdi — cümlenin kendisi mi, kitabın adı mı, yoksa bırakıldığı yer mi?

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.izlabs.iz

u/AlperenEser — 2 months ago
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I built a visual knowledge mapping tool — connect books, films, podcasts into explorable graphs

Hey everyone,

I've been building MotifLoom for the past few weeks. The idea is simple: most of what we read, watch, and listen to lives in scattered lists with no connections between them.

MotifLoom lets you pick any topic and map everything related to it — books, films, podcasts, games, articles, notes. Each item becomes a node in a visual graph. You draw connections between them to show how ideas relate.

A few things it does:

- Force-directed graph visualization (2D canvas)

- Auto-fetches metadata from TMDB, Open Library, RAWG

- Public maps that anyone can explore and fork

- Works on mobile

Tech stack: SvelteKit 2 + Rails 8 API + PostgreSQL + Redis + GraphQL

Here are some example maps I built:

- Stoicism: A Modern Guide → motifloom.com/motif/stoicism-a-modern-guide

- The Podcast Universe → motifloom.com/motif/the-podcast-universe

- AI & The Future of Work → motifloom.com/motif/ai-the-future-of-work

Would love feedback on the UX — especially the graph interaction and node adding flow.

🔗 motifloom.com

u/AlperenEser — 5 months ago