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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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Post by TeMPOraL »

pyjug wrote: post #8

I made a "feeding tracker" app because my wife wanted to wean our infant off breast milk. There are mobile apps that do this, but the problem was that we didn't want to wake up our child due to the phone screen at night. So, I hooked up an IoT button to Lambda + Dynamo, created a UI and everything -- my wife only needed to press the button. Turns out my wife was generally too sleepy and forgot to press the button. Al…

Before our daughter was born, the childbirth school we were attending told us that it's important that the newborn be rotated between positions (laying on left side/right side/back/belly) every couple hours. I thought, there's no way in hell we'll be awake enough to keep track of this, and not mess up the sequence. So I bought a wall clock to serve as an indicator, one that had no back (I wanted to put a color-coded, labeled card in the back) and was split into quadrants. Like this one: [0], except round. With that, it would mean we only need to check which quadrant the small hand is currently in to know which position our baby should be in.

And then we didn't use it much, because our daughter was unstable when on the side, learned quickly to flip between back and belly positions, and between all the other things that involved taking her out of her crib, it turned out this whole piece of advice about rotating baby position makes no sense in the first place.

So here's to a clear problem and a clever solution colliding with harsh reality. :).

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[0] - https://br.pinterest.com/pin/836684437002318403/

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

vuciv1 wrote: post #57
tobr wrote: post #52

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> The sign up process is just to store your likes so that you don't need to swipe again on the same movies. > Its also so that you can lookup and add your friends. Right, but what about that requires me to type in three magic strings into three (wait, actually probably six?) input fields? Just associate the data on the server with some UUID that you store on my device. Inviting others could work by just sharing a lin…

I have a bit more to learn :)

Start from the assumption that you do not need any data from your users, and do not need to form an explicit relationship with them (like by having them create an account), and work from there. Treat it as a challenge - how to make your idea work under such constraints?

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

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Post by rootsudo »

codecutter wrote: post #15
vuciv1 wrote: post #5

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Not quite yet. I am still trying to make my first dollar on the internet

Why settle for a dollar? If you are willing to make the source code FLOSS, I will donate $10 to you. :)

I'll donate too if published FLOSS :)

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

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Post by CharlesW »

vuciv1 wrote: post #53
CharlesW wrote: post #51

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That's not how it works. https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/can-i... > Limited non-commercial use of IMDb data is allowed… > The data must be taken only from the datasets made available (see IMDb Contributor Datasets. You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping , or similar online data gathering and extraction tools on our website. > The data can only be used for personal and non-commerci…

I scraped it from a source that allows scraping :)

IMDB, TMDB, OMDb, and the 10+ other services that do this all prohibit that.

I'm not trying to persuade you that stealing intellectual property is bad. I just thought it was funny that you'd whine about a $99 fee with one hand, while content-marketing an app that depends completely on someone else's data with the other.

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

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Post by lupire »

vuciv1 wrote: post #33
dvt wrote: post #11

> Eat my butt, Apple. Eat my butt, Google. Just let me publish my frickin app, you already emptied my pockets. I feel this. A few years ago, I made a joke app[1] which got a bit famous on campus back when I was in school, and the process of getting it on the Play store was literally harder than writing the darn thing. Nowadays, it even got removed from the Play store for some reason. I couldn't imagine running an app…

Thanks :) I appreciate it. I also meant this to be a learning experience/just for my friends, so I totally feel that frustration!

Android allows side loading apps, no need to pay for Google's store and the service it provides.

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

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Post by pydry »

askafriend wrote: post #67
golf1052 wrote: post #41

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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 (a…

>the entire App Store ecosystem is not free.

and building a competing ecosystem that is is Not Allowed!

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