How Hypeboard works

The people in your organization send photos and events from their phones. A moderator reviews every submission. The ones you approve play on the screens in your building. That is the whole product.

A screen playing a photo full width with an upcoming-events sidebar down the right-hand side. — A screen showing photos on the left and upcoming events on the right.

1. People send things in

There are two ways in, and an organization can use either or both.

With an account, someone opens a link you send them and signs in with their email address — there is no password to forget, just a six-digit code. From then on they have a page on their phone with three buttons: send a photo, send an event, see what happened to what they sent.

The member app on a phone, offering Submit a photo, Submit an event and My submissions. — What a member sees on their phone. Nothing to install — it is a web page.

Without an account, you print a poster with a QR code on it. Anyone who scans it gets a page that sends photos straight to your review queue. This is useful for an event where many people are visitors, or any time nobody wants to sign in to an account.

A QR page. You choose whether it takes anything, asks for an email first, or is members only.

2. A moderator reviews every submission

Everything lands in a queue. Nothing reaches a screen until a moderator approves it, and approving is also where you say which screens it goes to.

The Console showing four photos waiting for review, each with an Approve button. — The review queue. Four photos waiting, each with who sent it and when.

You can work through the queue with the keyboard — arrow keys to move, a to approve, r to turn one down — or tap through it on a phone. Turning something down is not permanent: rejected items stay recoverable for a month by default, and putting one back is a single action.

3. It appears on the screens

Each screen is a television with a small computer behind it, showing approved photos full-width and the next few weeks of events down the side. A screen picks up a new photo within about a minute; nobody has to touch it.

You can run several screens on different content — a lobby and an event space do not have to show the same thing — and move a screen from one to the other from a laptop, without going near it.

What it does not do

Photos only. Video is not accepted anywhere, on purpose. Reviewing a clip means watching all of it, and a single bad frame in the middle is easy to miss and easy to plant.

It does not review anything for you. There is no automatic filter. A person looks at every photo, which is the point, and it is worth knowing that is a job somebody has to do.

It is not a social feed. There are no likes, no comments and no replies. People send things; a moderator picks; the screens play them.

What setting it up involves Help