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Awesome. Can you give a lightning talk on that? Me and lots of others would be interested.
Sure, sounds fun. This entire thread is very inspiring.
Just adding my +1 for a talk/blogpost on this :)
An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
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Re: An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
#52I like the learn to cook analogy. It's perfect.
Also a good retort to the whole "you don't need to go to a famous culinary school to ger hired as a chef".
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Just to play devils advocate, what if you just made a private subreddit for your family? While I also struggle with the android/apple divide in my family I feel like getting them all to agree to use an existing social platform would be exceptionally difficult, but it would be orders of magnitude easier than getting them to use a custom or relatively unknown app for comms unless it did something really special or nove…
So at least in my case - I have a couple of problems with outsourcing this kind of thing like that. Namely - a private subreddit would work but comes with a LOT of downsides. - Ads (this is pretty much a dealbreaker on it's own...) - Signup - Changing UI/UX - Lack of control over uploads/content (who backs it up, when, how?) - Lack of control over the general experience The nice thing about custom software is that as…
I'm fully in agreement with all of your downsides (although ads aren't necessarily a dealbreaker for me).
The pain point for me is that my family/friends circle isn't willing to try and use new software especially stuff that might be custom or have some lack of features.
It took me a year or more to get my dad to send me pictures and videos over FB Messenger instead of SMS (he has an iphone and I have an android). Maybe I just need some new persuasion tactics but the idea of putting energy and time into building a custom app for my family and then dealing with pushback and a reluctance to use it just sounds exhausting to me.