20squares

We love photos! We love Instagram! Do you also share your best moments on Instagram?
Using our iPhone and Android app, as well as our website you can create a photo book with these moments within only a few minutes. You can browse your and your friends profiles or search for photos using specific hashtags. You don’t even need to install additional software.

20squares grants every Instagram user the freedom to transform digital impressions and experiences into an attractive and tangible analog form.
It is important to us that you can create your photo book swiftly and at a reasonable price, without cumbersome software installation or time-consuming image editing.
We would like to spare you of tedious uploading, cropping or other customizations of your photo book and there are no hidden shipping costs. Not only are your pictures available, but the entirety Instagram community with more than 40 billion images.
By building a 20squares community we are going to create a photo book series about socially significant topics in a global context. The creativity of individuals and the community work are the focus!
In early 2017 we will start with the development of festival photo books, so that your favorite events remains unforgotten in the future. And the next step is to deliver this idea to all Instagrammers in the world.
We want to proof that even a small thing like a photo book can move mountains. From every sold 20squares photo book we donate 1€ to a social business or social project. It remains your choice to help in one of our four categories: „Emergency“, „Humans“, „Culture & Education“ and „Nature & Environment“! Your photos can change the world!

20squares might be interesting for people who:

• want to change the world with photos
• want to explore a new creative kind of community
• love simple and intuitive apps
• want to share their moments in an analog form

20squares gives you a unique mobile and web app, that accesses the Instagram photo database and makes it possible to create photo book about specific topics by using the hashtag search. The best photos are presorted which allows you to create your individual photo book fast, efficient, simple and sustained. It is easy for your photos to get lost in the digital datatrash. We want to make sure that you always have your favorite moments at your fingertips.

The app is almost completed and awaits roll-out. To facilitate the launch, we are dependent on a start-up financing.
On reaching the funding threshold we want to realize the following:

• completing the app
• developing the Online-editor for creating your photo book in your browser
• building an organizational structure

On reaching the funding target:
additional marketing budget, to bring our idea into people’s heads