[thisischichi]

Thanks for the kind words on the site. It is written in Elixir and runs on the Phoenix framework. There's also a fair bit of React for the real-time functionality, which is powered by Phoenix channels. Perhaps I should have mentioned that in my post, seeing as this is Hacker News...!!

Thanks also for sharing the React Native libraries you used.

I think it will be wise in the long run to keep the pictures on device, and maybe store details about the timeline instead, should you wish to add that social feature. As mentioned by @throwmenow_0140 this could do really well with similar, daily capture type apps. Maybe think of one for capturing a selfie a day: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/23/man-takes-a-photo-of-himself-e...

In its current incarnation, this could go down a storm with allotment owners in the UK though! And that's not something to be sniffed at :) Keep it up. http://www.allotment-garden.org/