This is a great idea. I downloaded it just now and found that the Privacy Policy and ToS links on the signup page don't appear to work.
Working on it!
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
#112Why does an app like this need to have a sign-up process with email, username and password? It’s enough for me to not try the app because of the mental overhead and risks involved, but it also seems like a bunch of additional development for no (or maybe negative) benefit.
Why make it an app at all. A webpage wouldn't have to deal with the play store, and when a bunch of friends gather they wouldn't have to wait for people to install it.
yes, this would be ideal. However the visibility of the app store is the benefit here.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 upkeep of the Apple store ecosystem is easily found within its margins on taking money from developers plus billions in profits. This page is telling you how they're classifying it for tax reasons. There is no need to charge $100 or even $20 like Microsoft.
This page is an excuse. There is no reason except greed and corporate accounting.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#114Earlier 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,…
Also, the screenshots and such aren't required if you just want to use TestFlight to share with a few friends. Of course, each build only lasts 90 days, so that could get tedious in the long run.
I can't speak from a position of knowledge as I don't handle the Apple side of things at all but we've had our builds removed from testflight for petty reasons like that and it was up for significantly less than 90 days.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hear you. It is not a huge deal in my life, just a minor inconvenience I used as an opportunity to learn
Although on the second thought, maybe you could expand it make it as match making dating up, that matches people beside interests ... I do not know is there already something similar.
Nobody would use it, all one side cares about in dating anymore is muscles and height. People have done experiments making fake male profiles with as abhorrent as possible of descriptions but with attractive pictures and they still get messages from girls, meanwhile average guy with interesting hobbies and a good career/future will get nothing as I found out in college.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#116I feel like we need a add-on to the old quote 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.' 'Some people, when confronted with a interpersonal relationship problem, think "I know, I'll use software". Now they have two problems.' This is cute, but it's trying to solve a people problem with software.
You hit the nail on the head.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#117> 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." The guy did a not-insignificant amount of work on an app and his... "partner"... didn't even entertain the idea of using it; if not for mere exposure to their friends, at least for an actua…
I appreciate your concern. I used her as a punchline because I thought the title and story was funny. She consistently helped me with testing, gave me feedback, and let me talk her ear off about it for over a month. She's wonderful, don't worry :)
She's bored, you should worry.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#118Where did you get the movie info? Just imdb? A lot more than 500,000 titles on there!
I'm not the author, but I've used The Movie Database's apis and found it pretty good. At least when I was doing my film project, IMDB APIs weren't really intended for public use; you needed to contact developer relations and what not.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#119This could / should have been a Show HN: with an App name behind it. But I think this story telling is so much better than Show HN and the story is great and funny. I guess other people will have to take notes with their product launch.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#120I’ll give this a try with my wife. We struggle with this.
The requirement to log in is a huge deterrent though - why not just use a UUID or something based on the phone?
Also, I don’t know if you can scrape a small synopsis and include it, along with the genre, underneath the film? I had no idea what the first 30-40 films that came up for me were.