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Re: Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world

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Post by rgbrgb »

hobonumber1 wrote: post #8
k-mcgrady wrote: post #7

Really nice design. Playing around with it now and want to offer some minor feedback: 1. Onboarding screens seem unnecessary. I've already read the description and decided to download the app. Unless you're teaching me something I don't need to be sold again. 2. The images in the tables seem slow to load for me. Are these being fetched from a server and if so would you not be able to keep the images for at least the…

Thanks so much for the feedback. This is why I love HN To reply to your thoughts: 1) Good point. I'll consider removing it for the next release, but from my beta testing, some users felt that an onboarding flow would be nicer. I figured making it short and sweet wouldn't hurt. 2) The images are fetched from the server, because the entire app is very API-driven. You're right though - I could architect it so that the i…

I recommend this project for image caching: https://github.com/rs/SDWebImage

It creates a cache keyed on the URL and deals with processing the image off of the main thread.

Re: Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world

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Post by cloudwalking »

hobonumber1 wrote: post #8
k-mcgrady wrote: post #7

Really nice design. Playing around with it now and want to offer some minor feedback: 1. Onboarding screens seem unnecessary. I've already read the description and decided to download the app. Unless you're teaching me something I don't need to be sold again. 2. The images in the tables seem slow to load for me. Are these being fetched from a server and if so would you not be able to keep the images for at least the…

Thanks so much for the feedback. This is why I love HN To reply to your thoughts: 1) Good point. I'll consider removing it for the next release, but from my beta testing, some users felt that an onboarding flow would be nicer. I figured making it short and sweet wouldn't hurt. 2) The images are fetched from the server, because the entire app is very API-driven. You're right though - I could architect it so that the i…

Re #2: Subclass UIImageView, add a -setImageURL: method, hash the URL and use it to lookup/store images in the documents directory. https://gist.github.com/cloudwalking/74a364e168b641e44482

https://gist.github.com/cloudwalking/66990a244b249c57f443

Re: Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world

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Post by osxrand »

hobonumber1 wrote: post #8
k-mcgrady wrote: post #7

Really nice design. Playing around with it now and want to offer some minor feedback: 1. Onboarding screens seem unnecessary. I've already read the description and decided to download the app. Unless you're teaching me something I don't need to be sold again. 2. The images in the tables seem slow to load for me. Are these being fetched from a server and if so would you not be able to keep the images for at least the…

Thanks so much for the feedback. This is why I love HN To reply to your thoughts: 1) Good point. I'll consider removing it for the next release, but from my beta testing, some users felt that an onboarding flow would be nicer. I figured making it short and sweet wouldn't hurt. 2) The images are fetched from the server, because the entire app is very API-driven. You're right though - I could architect it so that the i…

Some more feedback, in the Australia section you've put New Zealand as well. Maybe you should name it Australasia to be a little more accurate?

Re: Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world

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Post by hobonumber1 »

osxrand wrote: post #23
hobonumber1 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks so much for the feedback. This is why I love HN To reply to your thoughts: 1) Good point. I'll consider removing it for the next release, but from my beta testing, some users felt that an onboarding flow would be nicer. I figured making it short and sweet wouldn't hurt. 2) The images are fetched from the server, because the entire app is very API-driven. You're right though - I could architect it so that the i…

Some more feedback, in the Australia section you've put New Zealand as well. Maybe you should name it Australasia to be a little more accurate?

Good point! Done. :) That's the benefit of being API-Driven.

Re: Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world

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Post by hobonumber1 »

cloudwalking wrote: post #22
hobonumber1 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks so much for the feedback. This is why I love HN To reply to your thoughts: 1) Good point. I'll consider removing it for the next release, but from my beta testing, some users felt that an onboarding flow would be nicer. I figured making it short and sweet wouldn't hurt. 2) The images are fetched from the server, because the entire app is very API-driven. You're right though - I could architect it so that the i…

Re #2: Subclass UIImageView, add a -setImageURL: method, hash the URL and use it to lookup/store images in the documents directory. https://gist.github.com/cloudwalking/74a364e168b641e44482 https://gist.github.com/cloudwalking/66990a244b249c57f443

I'm using AFNetworking + UIImageView. I believe it does something similar, doesn't it? https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/blob/master/UIK...

Re: Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world

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Post by hobonumber1 »

spacefight wrote: post #13
hobonumber1 wrote: post #4

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Images and content are retrieved algorithmically from various places (Flickr, Wikipedia, etc.). Planning to monetize later by letting people purchase specific categories (like "romantic getaways"). Right now, all categories are free.

Well done. I'm using the Flickr API myself for photo annotations - be careful to honor the licensing of those images. Quite a few are copyrighted, e.g. those in the Josha Tree section. Linking back is not enough, explicit permission is requried. Example: https://www.flickr.com/photos/circleyq/8676353185/

You're right. I'm only using Creative Commons photos, and I include attribution inside the detail pages.

Re: Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world

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Post by hobonumber1 »

sev wrote: post #19

Very pretty app! Good work. - how do you like a place? I couldn't figure it out. - what UI element is the sort drop down?

To like a place, you can click on the heart. The dropdown is from REMenu (https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/remenu)

Re: Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world

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Post by hobonumber1 »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #17
hobonumber1 wrote: post #12

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I have thought about it, but allowing for that would require some type of user authentication system which would increase friction when it came to onboarding. If I decide to go with user authentications, then I think adding comments is a no-brainer.

Only require authentication when the user wants to make a comment. You could also use Facebook/Twitter login systems built into the device so the user presses login, selects their account from an action sheet, and they're in. No username/password friction.

Good thinking. Sounds like v1.1.0.
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