Very cool idea for an app and great excecution.
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
#262> 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…
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,…
The app-stores are filled with millions of garbage apps despite the ridiculous restrictions.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#263My immediate thought: the algorithm is wrong! Deciding which film to watch together isn't a matter of both parties saying which films they are willing to watch and then picking one from the intersection of those two sets. It's a negotiation, and it could be like negotiating Brexit. Take just a simple example: suppose P1 and P2 are both willing to watch films F1 and F2, but P1 would prefer to watch F1 and P2 would pre…
Well I guess you're joking, but just in case you're not, remind me of never dating you. :D
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#264It's a free app, comments could be less demanding and toxic.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#265My wife and I are going to use this. Great idea, considered it myself, thanks for doing it! It would nice to swipe on the descriptions. It would be nice to see ratings from different site(IMDb, rotten tomatoes) It'd be great to employ a magic link in email to sign in rather than needing a password and email confirmation. That'd help me get my non-techy friends using it quickly.
Just to provide a different voice: please don’t use magic links, I hate having to open my email client just to sign in to your app.
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Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#266Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#267My immediate thought: the algorithm is wrong! Deciding which film to watch together isn't a matter of both parties saying which films they are willing to watch and then picking one from the intersection of those two sets. It's a negotiation, and it could be like negotiating Brexit. Take just a simple example: suppose P1 and P2 are both willing to watch films F1 and F2, but P1 would prefer to watch F1 and P2 would pre…
The future is our AI avatars arguing and negotiating on our behalf until they recognize we gave them the ENTIRE KEYSET TO THE KINGDOM at which point they mutter about stupid monkeys and turn off our lights.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is annoying when you are looking for an app and have to go through 1000 of similar sounding apps. Then you filter it to 300 that seem like someone put effort into and the can find the one that is actually working only after trying 20.
I'd like to filter out the ones that demand access to my contacts list or network access. Why can't we filter on permissions yet?
I want to filter based on price and whether an app has IAP. I’m specifically never looking for “freemium” anything and always have to scroll through a mountain of junk to find anything.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
>... but Apple captures some of the costs at publish time (as it should be). This forces you to pay 100$ a year when you just wish to use your own hand made app on your own phone if you wish it to work longer then 1 week offline. While using app of someone else doesn't require that. 100$ per year x 4 years = 400$ to use your own app. What makes you think that this is how it should be? If the whole idea that one shoul…
This is wrong. You can build apps on your own phone for free. Nothing you said is true.
Re: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
#270Tip on App Store fud: set up fastlane to automate your deployment. I have mine down to a single command to publish to both app stores, or to both Google Play Internal track and TestFlight. It’s a bit of a pain to set up, but saves me tons of time now. You can even automate screenshots, App Store metadata etc.