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I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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flohofwoe wrote: post #39
askafriend wrote: post #19

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As a user, I'm very happy the stores impose stringent rules. "And there are all these stupid requirements. I need at least X screenshots, and they have to be this exact resolution blah blah blah. On top of that, it took so long to get approved. My ADHD brain really suffered waiting for the gratification." I would hate to browse a store where the products didn't have at least X screenshots with at least X resolution,…

Why would you care about applications that you wouldn't use or even know that they exist though? Do you also care about web pages you don't know about? The store just wouldn't put such "non-conforming" apps at the top of search results.

This is how I feel. Regardless of whether or not my app has images or not, nobody is going to come across it.

I don't think I've ever just gone "App Window Shopping"

Maybe other people do, though. I don't know.

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by vuciv1 »

mr_sturd wrote: post #58

Seems like a cool app; will definitely give it a go. Does/will the the app filtering by streaming service take region in to account?

Unfortunately it doesn't :/

Working on getting that data in to provide better filters.

Thanks for checking it out :)

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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abotsis wrote: post #48

We used a similar app for baby names- it’s a great idea for all sorts of consensus. I actually think there’s a large opportunity to apply this in all sorts of ways: baby names and movies are both great ideas, but anytime multiple people want to create intersecting sets. Another one we thought of was pictures: 5 people take 2-3 pictures of the same group photo, you have 10-15 pictures that Becky wants to post, with ev…

I agree! I wanted to also add in restaurants because of a similar problem.

I really do think there is a consensus opportunity, especially when there are infinite options in the digital world

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by vuciv1 »

aspaviento wrote: post #47

The matching could be faster if you list the movies in the same order (maybe change the order every X minutes)

It does that if you have the same filters! I also wanted to try and have the algorithm find what your friends have liked that you haven't decided on yet and show you those first.

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by askafriend »

golf1052 wrote: post #41
askafriend wrote: post #29

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$100 a year is nothing for a developer toolkit. In fact, it's a great deal if you really think about all the infrastructure that you get for free. Let's take a look at what MSDN costs for a pro-level subscription (not even enterprise): "At the Professional subscription level, you pay a not-insignificant sum: $539 per year for an annual cloud subscription or $1,199 for the first year of a perpetual license subscriptio…

You're comparing two different things, the Apple and Android fees are to get access to publish apps to the store. The developer toolkit which is used to build and test the apps (Android Studio or XCode) are free. The Microsoft comparison would be the $20 to publish in the Microsoft Store and Visual Studio Community which is free to build and test apps. "MSDN" is a bundle of additional developer tools that you would u…

No you are not only paying to get access to publish. You're paying because upkeep of the entire App Store ecosystem is not free. You also get a bunch of tooling, code-level technical support, and more importantly a bunch of SDKs that are tremendously powerful and useful (Metal, ARKit, etc).

Yes Xcode and APIs like ARKit are free to develop (for obvious reasons), but Apple captures some of the costs at publish time (as it should be).

Here's a full list of stuff that the fee go towards supporting and developing: https://developer.apple.com/programs/whats-included/

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by vuciv1 »

NiceWayToDoIT wrote: post #54

In my mind this is an example of solving a problem that does not exist. Why just not simply say "we watching 2 movies a week, once you choose and I'll choose next, and so on..."? p.s. Credits and kudos for learning new things !

I hear you. It is not a huge deal in my life, just a minor inconvenience I used as an opportunity to learn

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by Hammershaft »

serf wrote: post #35
askafriend wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a user, I'm very happy the stores impose stringent rules. "And there are all these stupid requirements. I need at least X screenshots, and they have to be this exact resolution blah blah blah. On top of that, it took so long to get approved. My ADHD brain really suffered waiting for the gratification." I would hate to browse a store where the products didn't have at least X screenshots with at least X resolution,…

> As a user, I'm very happy the stores impose stringent rules. Presumably you're speaking from the Apple side of things, because the Play Store is a fragmented wasteland of low-effort/sometimes-malicious shovelware that barely functions. To me that means that the hoops Google makes one jump through for app publishing are accomplishing next to nothing with regards to app quality.

> the Play Store is a fragmented wasteland of low-effort shovelware

Wait how does this differ from the appstore?

Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

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Post by jmmcd »

great_reversal wrote: post #13

> Last weekend, my partner had her friends stay with us over the weekend. We needed to find a movie to watch. This was my chance! I was so excited! > "Let's use WeWatch!" > "No, it would take too long. Let's just watch Space Jam." I watch a lot of movies and honestly the swipe-approach would take way too long. My preferred way is to just scroll through a long list of movies (alphabetically) and pick one I want to wat…

> would take way too long

I think the right way to do it would be to swipe a few movies every few days, whenever you're wasting time on your phone anyway. That way you'd have a queue of matches ready to go on Friday night.

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