The group chat was never meant to be the album.
Everyone took photos, and a week later nobody can find any of them.
The good ones are spread over a text thread, a WhatsApp group and somebody's email, so no one person ends up with the full set.
Chats re-encode everything you send, so what arrives on the other end is a smaller, softer copy of the photo you took.
New messages push them up the thread. Go looking a month later and you are scrolling for ten minutes to find one picture.
The usual alternative is a public feed, which means showing the night to people who were not at it.
It takes about a minute to set up.
Name it, pick a cover photo, and you are done. The same thing works for a wedding, a weekend away or a Tuesday night.
Send people a link, or let them scan a QR code. They are in on the first tap, and anyone who only wants to look can do that in a browser.
Everyone's photos land in the same feed while the day is still going, and you can react, comment or pull down the originals from there.
Everything the group shares lands in the same feed.
Nothing is re-encoded on the way in or on the way out, so the file you download is the file that came off the camera.
Any emoji works, and a reply threads one level deep underneath the photo it is about.
Anyone you invite can add their own shots, which means you stop being the person chasing everybody for photos.
While you are browsing, you can see who else is in the Space looking at the same thing.
Pull down a single shot or the entire Space at full size, whenever you want it.
For the days when everyone brought a camera.
Give an event Space a date and it closes itself once the day is over, which is usually what it takes to get people uploading while the day is still fresh.
Only the people you invited can see it.
Huddled is not a social network, so there is nothing to scroll and no one to perform for. A Space is visible to its members and to nobody else.
A Space has no public address. The only way into one is an invite from somebody already inside it.
Every member carries a role, and the role decides whether they can upload, only look, or bring other people in.
Files are encrypted in transit and at rest. Delete a Space and it is gone for good.
Start free, and upgrade when you run out of room.
Every plan is private and ad-free, and you can cancel whenever you like.
The things people ask before they sign up.
Yes. A Space has no public address, so nobody stumbles onto it, and we never mine or sell what is inside it.
No. A link or a QR code opens the Space in any browser, and they can add photos from there as well. The app is free if they would rather have it.
No. Files go up and come back down at the resolution they were shot at.
The Space stays yours on any plan. An event Space stops taking new uploads once the day is over, but you can still open it and download anything inside it.