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v1.2 is live in the App Store!

Just in time for your Labor Day weekend enjoyment, the newest JustFamily app update is live and available in the App Store.

Version 1.2 makes it easier to add and invite your family. No more typing names and email addresses. If you’ve got your family’s email addresses on your phone, all you have to do is tap Invite.

But, because it’s usually better to show than tell, so here’s a few screenshots:

  1. Start by tapping “Invite your family” on the Family Groups screen.

  2. Then tap Contacts on the Invite Family screen.

  3. Scan your Contacts and tap the Invite button to invite a family member

    We automatically group everyone that shares your last name up top in the “Family from Contacts” section.

  4. Select the email address you want to send the invite to.

    If you’ve got 2 email addresses for your sister, you can avoid her work email, for example.

  5. Continue finding your family in Contacts and tapping Invite…then tap Done.

    You can quickly filter the list by typing, for example, your In-law’s last name in the Search field.

  6. That’s it! Your family will get a nice little invite, and away you go.

If you’re feeling ambitious, you can then start adding your family members to the Relationship boxes you’ll find in your Profile. As you add family members to the Relationship boxes, your Default Sharing Groups will be created automatically - both for you and for everyone else you’re connected to. You can also start adding family members to Custom Sharing Groups you create.

Or if you don’t feel like messing around with Relationships or Groups, don’t worry about it! You can just start collecting and sharing memories. Leave everyone in your Unsorted Family group as long as you want. Who knows, maybe some other family member will join and organize all of the family Relationships for you…after all, you did the Inviting.

Don’t most families have the “if you cooked you don’t have to clean” rule?

Hi, I’m Kurt. I do QA and a bunch of other stuff on the JustFamily team. I’m constantly using and testing our product during the day, but it’s a lot more fun using it for real when I’m home with my family. Here’s a small, quiet moment with my 2-year-old daughter Alex that I collected recently using the JustFamily iPhone app.     I woke up yesterday morning to the rustling of Alex climbing up the footboard at the foot of our bed. I knew immediately what (or better yet whom) it was, but after checking my alarm and seeing that it was going to go off soon anyway, I decided to let it play out. I continued to feign sleep as Alex crawled across my feet and settled in on her back between my calves. Because the AC was still broken, Nicole and I had slept with just the top sheet. So I didn’t need to open my eyes to see Alex snuggle in next to my legs and hold her sippy cup up to drink. The dim, new daylight was playing into the room thru the curtains, the fan on the desk pulled cool air in thru the window. I used the fan’s hum to mask the sound of my movements as I raised my phone and took a quick picture. It was one of those perfect moments in life. One that I wanted to settle down in myself, safe and close and content, with most of the sound and brightness of the world filtered out. A moment I didn’t want to fall out of, didn’t want to forget. I didn’t want to interrupt it until I absolutely had to. So, I let Alex lie there, whispering her ABCs softly to herself, until my alarm went off. Alex heard it, too, and turned her head up, grinning at me like she had gotten away with something. Then she scrambled the rest of the way up the bedsheet to bearhug me and Nicole and lay down on the pillow between us. Like I said, it was a perfect moment. I wouldn’t ever want to forget it. Had it not been for the camera on my phone right beside me and the idea that I could share something so precious with my family members, my memory of those few quiet minutes with my daughter would probably be lost to me by now. Instead, because I took the time to write it down, my whole family can now share that feeling I had, and that feeling’s not going anywhere now.  High-res

Hi, I’m Kurt. I do QA and a bunch of other stuff on the JustFamily team. I’m constantly using and testing our product during the day, but it’s a lot more fun using it for real when I’m home with my family.

Here’s a small, quiet moment with my 2-year-old daughter Alex that I collected recently using the JustFamily iPhone app.    

I woke up yesterday morning to the rustling of Alex climbing up the footboard at the foot of our bed. 

I knew immediately what (or better yet whom) it was, but after checking my alarm and seeing that it was going to go off soon anyway, I decided to let it play out. I continued to feign sleep as Alex crawled across my feet and settled in on her back between my calves. 

Because the AC was still broken, Nicole and I had slept with just the top sheet. So I didn’t need to open my eyes to see Alex snuggle in next to my legs and hold her sippy cup up to drink. 

The dim, new daylight was playing into the room thru the curtains, the fan on the desk pulled cool air in thru the window. I used the fan’s hum to mask the sound of my movements as I raised my phone and took a quick picture. 

It was one of those perfect moments in life. One that I wanted to settle down in myself, safe and close and content, with most of the sound and brightness of the world filtered out. A moment I didn’t want to fall out of, didn’t want to forget. I didn’t want to interrupt it until I absolutely had to. 

So, I let Alex lie there, whispering her ABCs softly to herself, until my alarm went off. Alex heard it, too, and turned her head up, grinning at me like she had gotten away with something. Then she scrambled the rest of the way up the bedsheet to bearhug me and Nicole and lay down on the pillow between us. 

Like I said, it was a perfect moment. I wouldn’t ever want to forget it.

Had it not been for the camera on my phone right beside me and the idea that I could share something so precious with my family members, my memory of those few quiet minutes with my daughter would probably be lost to me by now.

Instead, because I took the time to write it down, my whole family can now share that feeling I had, and that feeling’s not going anywhere now. 

Why we’re building JustFamily

Hi there!

My name is Nate Quigley and I’m co-founder and CEO of JustFamily. I’m a very happy husband and father to 7 amazing children. I was raised by devoted parents in an idyllic family environment with younger brother and sister. Along with amazing in-laws, I’m part of a large, growing, and supportive extended family.

In short, I’m lucky beyond words. 

Great writers tell you to write what you know, and I think this holds for entrepreneurs too. I started JustFamily because family is what I know and family is what I believe in.

I’m also lucky to have an incredible founding team that feels the same way. So here are a few more specifics on why we’re all building JustFamily.

Because family is different

There are lots of ways to share “what’s happening now” with friends and the world. But family is different. Family is the only social group that cares about the past, the present, and the future. We’re building JustFamily so families can share life together and stay close in a private place, away from work and friends.

Because there are moments we don’t want to forget

A few months ago my three-year-old son Declan found a camping headlamp somewhere in the house. All excited he ran up to me, clicked it on, and said “Daddy! I see in cave. I hold you hand.” I wanted to freeze time. As the father of 7 great kids, I collect amazing moments like that all the time. Those are the stories I don’t want to forget.

Because there are things we don’t want to lose

My Grandpa Quigley was raised in the mountain west. He loved the outdoors, and he became a forest ranger like his father. He also had an amazing baritone voice. As a lullaby, he would sing “Home on the Range” to his kids. Years later he sang it to me and my cousins. Now we sing it to our kids. That song connects our suburbanite families to a meaningful part of our past and helps us remember who we are.

At Grandpa’s funeral, someone played a recording of him singing “Home on the Range” that none of us knew existed. It was incredible to hear his voice again. Unfortunately, the tape disappeared after the funeral somehow. That recording held a story we didn’t want to lose. A few months later, we started hacking together the first prototype of JustFamily.

Because we want to share life together and because we want to remember

We aren’t around the same kitchen table every night, but we still want a private place where we can share our lives together as family. And we want to know that we’re preserving our family stories in a way that will allow us to enjoy and celebrate them for generations to come.

That’s why we’re building JustFamily.

Thanks for reading and thank you for taking a look at what we’ve gotten done so far. So how do you think JustFamily can help you and your family? Please share your ideas with us and we promise to keep building and improving things for you.

Sincerely,

Nate

@njquigley

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