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app-in-progress

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Things are coming along!

  • Native table view complete (without design).
  • Image asynchronously loading. Smoothly.
  • Get user’s current location.

More from last month.

  • [1] Deciding where to focus attention – Oct 8th, 2014
  • [2] Untitled – Oct 10th, 2014
  • [3] GraffitiFound prototype via iphone – Oct 11th, 2014
  • [4] Instagram @rememberlenny

End of day reflection

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I circulated my prototype on Reddit’s /r/graffiti today. I didnt get any upvotes, but I believe I got traffic from the site. I wasn’t able to get Google Analytics to register my new site, so I didnt get any hard numbers.

Based on my posts in /r/graffiti, I am starting to believe the audience is not inline with what I am trying to do. They are a passive photo browsing group. I am looking for a group who will actively engage with my product.

Without analytics, I do see a positive level of engagement from users. Based on the leaderboard activity, I can see that at least 8 people were using the service. Additionally, it looks like they were engaged and browsing pages.

The leaderboard shows that people have scores above 5, which means they submitted at least 5 answers and saw at least 5 images. This is a positive reflection on engagement.

I wrote an API

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Just as Gary and Wayne talked about not building an API, I did it.

The API returns a random graffiti image from a database I have: http://publicartfound.herokuapp.com/get_graffiti

The API return a JSON object containing a URL to a graffiti image. It looks like this:

{
data: ""https://s3.amazonaws.com/lkbg-aws-box/10790544143_0b07aab385_o.jpg""
}

Although this isnt keep score correctly, the quiz game is cycling random images.

http://publicartfound.herokuapp.com/