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Macaco — a travel journal that lives in the cloud, not on one phone. Write entries, attach photos and short video clips, and never lose them to a lost or wiped device. Currently in open beta — join now to help shape the app before launch: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.houseofmmminq.macaco
I started Macaco because I kept losing my own travel notes. After a New Year's cruise, I went to write it all up and realized the notes were scattered across a notes app, a few text files, and photos that never made it off my phone before I lost or replaced it. I wanted one place that actually survived device changes — not a local notes app that dies with the phone.
The problem I was solving was pretty narrow at first: sync entries across devices so I wouldn't lose them again. But building it, I realized the bigger risk wasn't losing the text — it was losing the photos. Most journal apps store images locally, so a factory reset or a lost phone quietly erases the visual memory of a trip even if the words survive. So Macaco backs photos up to your own Google Drive automatically, not just to some app-controlled server you have to trust.
My approach changed a lot along the way. It started as "Wanderlog," a fairly simple local journal. Once I moved it to Firebase for real cloud sync, I realized entries needed to feel alive beyond just text and photos, so I added short video clips you can attach to an entry — a few seconds is often more honest about a place than a paragraph. Somewhere in there the whole thing got renamed to Macaco, partly to reflect that it had become a genuinely different app from where it started.
Would love feedback from anyone who journals, travels a lot, or has ever lost photos/notes to a dead or wiped phone — that's exactly who I built this for.
the way entries stay synced instantly without burying you in sync settings is such a relief, feels like the cloud part is invisible in the best way
Honestly love how clean the entry screen is, no clutter fighting for attention while you're trying to write. Cloud-first approach is smart too, basically means you can finish a trip entry on your phone and pick it up later on a tablet without any sync hassle.
About Macaco: Minimalist Trip Diary on Product Hunt
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Macaco: Minimalist Trip Diary was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #112 on the daily leaderboard. Macaco — a travel journal that lives in the cloud, not on one phone. Write entries, attach photos and short video clips, and never lose them to a lost or wiped device. Currently in open beta — join now to help shape the app before launch: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.houseofmmminq.macaco
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