Traditionally, companies in the photos and videos industry are separated into two distinct categories.
Pre-2000 photos/videos on prints, slides, negatives, tapes, and reels are serviced by digitization companies while born-digital and smartphone photos/videos are stored, organized, and shared on platforms developed by software companies.
Founded in 2002, Memorable operated as a digitization-only company for 12 years and as a software company with integrated digitization services for 8 years.
Our philosophy is whether a photo or video was taken in 1993 on 35mm film or in 2023 on a smartphone, a memory is a memory.
Memorable is an industry-changing product which bridges the best features of digitization services with world-class software and apps.
Together, millions of customers can remember their whole life of memories as a singular whole as opposed to separate parts.
Memorable was programmed to work offline which allows customers to easily backup their cloud photos and videos locally on internal or external storage.
Our offline-first design paradigm enables faster performance, ability to use the app without being connected to the internet, reduced network traffic/lower costs, and increased peace of mind for customers.
Unlike typical web-only photo/video sites, Memorable syncs data between local and cloud databases to create a blazing-fast experience for accessing, viewing, and organizing a lifetime of photos and videos on every major OS, both online and offline.
Locally, Memorable implements a custom JSON database which loads large data sets of tens of thousands of items and associated metadata in a matter of seconds from boot-up.
Our Cloud databases run on a hybrid of MySQL and Redis.
Memorable’s unique syncing algorithm allows data to be loaded through an authenticated API call to a central server, uploaded by customer from multiple devices, updated with digitized photos and videos, and merged with a customer’s local database.
One of the biggest problems virtually every user of photos/videos faces is the impossibility to scroll through and enjoy tens of thousands of memories on a regular basis.
We solved an important design/usability problem with the invention of parallel-time rotation – creating the crux of the Memorable experience in the process.
The idea of parallel-time rotation is to display all dates of a ”time period” on screen at the same time and rotate through all photos and videos for each respective date.
In the case of Life, a customer born in 1982 might see 5 blocks: 1980’s, 1990’s, 2000s’, 2010’s, and 2020’s. Each block might contain 100, 200, 1,000, 3,000, and 2,000 photos, respectively.
Our design/UX allows a customer to set a desired interval and watch every photo/video from their entire life as an hours-long experience.
This same principle allows experiencing an entire month, year, and decade.
Memorable includes the ability to batch share thousands of photos and videos by person, date, and tag in two taps or clicks.
Once shared, the recipient receives a public link via email or text which can be opened in any modern browser.
The recipient can also save shared items to their own account via the “Save to App” button.
Memorable invented a user-friendly back of photo user experience for the estimated 400 billion print photos in the US.
Our digitization service and app were designed together to scan both sides of a printed photo and allow the customer to switch between the front and back with one tap or click.
Memorable developed technology for approximately 30 billion feet of 8mm, Super 8, or 16mm film in the US which lets a customer switch between viewing the original and remastered version of a digitized film.
Our goal is to provide the cleanest possible viewing experience for movie film by removing dust and dirt with software automatically.
Since software restoration can introduce subtle digital artifacts, we also need to provide customers with the original, high-quality digital transfer version.
The remastered film button solves both needs by providing customers a choice of whether to view the original or remastered version of their digitized films.
Memorable includes a system dashboard which shows the status of all components in real-time.
Memorable’s cloud system scales up/down automatically by starting servers to meet demand of increased usage and keeps cost as low as possible by shutting down servers when not needed.
Memorable’s system creates multiple-resolution versions of uploaded images to optimize the quality and experience of views throughout the app.
Memorable converts uploaded videos into streamable MP4 files and HLS playlists.
Memorable includes a user-friendly four-step process to copy photos and videos from a customer’s iCloud account to Memorable via cloud-to-cloud transfer.
Memorable developed software processes to automate multiple steps in the digitization process, from printing of QR codes for each media item to availability in app.
Memorable enables customers to view/navigate dates and search/view tags from handwritten labels on pre-digital photos and videos in app automatically.
Memorable simplifies the video transfer process by increasing the number of tapes a single operator can process per shift while decreasing errors and eliminating repetitive steps with automation.
Memorable decreases the amount of time required to complete image scanning orders.
Memorable’s film transfer processes and scripts enable accurate date navigation, tag search, and the remastered film UX in app.
Memorable makes it easy to add standard DVD-videos and data DVD’s with photos and videos to app.
Memorable’s product/system is organized into 7 repositories.
The product used by customers seamlessly displays both digitized and uploaded photos and videos with unique features in a beautiful user experience.
The API receives requests from App, handles authentication, communicates with databases, manages logic, organizes data, and returns data to the client.
We use a combination of database technologies which takes advantage of the structure of SQL and performance of Redis. Memorable includes a web socket server which helps update the app in real-time across devices.
Separated into images, videos, and faces. All image uploads are converted into various sizes for the app. All videos are converted into MP4 and HLS.
Includes backend order system, metadata app, and background managers responsible for the system’s operation and scaling.
Services, scripts, and apps for film transfer, video transfer, and image scanning.
The production app integrates with the backend and pipeline repositories to streamline/semi-automate digitization processes across photo, slide, negative, film, and video computers.