Get Notified When More of Your Event Photos Appear
TIME&SPACE · Stories from the Field
A single scan does not have to be the only time you check. Give an email or sign in, and TIME&SPACE keeps comparing your face against new uploads and tells you when more of your photos show up.
Get Notified When More of Your Event Photos Appear
In short: Scanning your selfie once does not have to be the only time you look. If you gave an email or scanned while signed in, TIME&SPACE keeps comparing your face against photos uploaded after your scan and tells you when more of yours appear, by email or app notification. Scan anonymously with no email and no account, and that follow-up never happens.
Photographers at a multi-hour event rarely finish uploading before the first guests start scanning. A guest who scans an hour into a conference and finds three photos of themselves has no way of knowing that forty more will be uploaded after the closing keynote, unless something keeps watching on their behalf.
What happens after your first scan
Every scan builds a face descriptor from your selfie and compares it against the photos indexed so far. If it finds matches, you see them immediately. What happens next depends on how you scanned.
If you gave an email, or scanned signed in
Your descriptor is kept, not discarded, and a daily sweep keeps comparing it against every new photo uploaded to that event. The moment a fresh match appears, you get an email telling you more photos are up, with a link straight back to them. If you have the app and are signed in, the same event triggers a notification there instead. You do not scan again. You do not come back to check. The comparison keeps running without you.
If you scanned with no email and no account
Nothing is kept to compare against later. The scan still works exactly the same way for whatever has been uploaded already, but once that result is shown, there is no descriptor left to run against tomorrow's uploads. Finding more photos later means scanning again.
Why zero matches isn't the end either
A scan that finds nothing yet works the same way behind the scenes: the descriptor is held so the next sweep can catch you the first time a matching photo lands, with no need to scan twice. The only difference between that case and an already-matched guest who opted in is which photos the comparison is still looking for, new photos for one, any photo at all for the other.
The retention is the same either way
Whichever case applies, the descriptor behind it has a fixed 30-day window from your scan. After that it is deleted on schedule, whether or not it ever matched anything. Watching for more photos is a convenience with an end date, not a standing record.
The short version
One scan shows you what exists right then. An email or a signed-in scan turns that into an ongoing watch, so the photos a photographer uploads an hour, or a day, after you leave still find their way to you, for 30 days.
Founder, TIME&SPACE