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I created several. The most recent: an Android app that lets you navigate any map, e.g. the one you just make a picture of: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.vanderplank...

I use this one myself: we like to take walks, and not always are the routes marked that clearly. Still only a handful of users, but usefull I guess for anyone that wished that e.g. Google maps made it possible to upload a picture to be laid upon the background map.

Earlier apps: 1 - the UNofficial Prezi Player app. Used in 56 countries, it relied upon a hack to be able to play a prezi on an Android phone or tablet. Was quite succesfull, untill of course Prezi made an official Android app of their own. (Actually: demonstrated it to Prezi and they asked nicely to make sure no one would think it was official)

2 - a ‘fixer’ of Prezi’s. This was in the time that Prezi’s could become ‘corrupt’ as one of the elements was to small such that the code would give a ‘divided by zero’ problem. I fixed a lot of these errors by hand, before I made a (paid) service, and before that a java program that fixed this by going into an XML file, finding the smallest item, and enlarging it. (Am very happy with Prezi by the way, was invited (but declined in the end) to join them for a hackathon in Budapest, was made their first ‘prezi champion of the month’, and they gifted me a life long licence for their software).

3 - I do have another app - LetsDoThis - but this one is different: it did not scratch one of my own itches, but that of my eldest daughter: she wanted to ‘swipe’ away choices like one can on Tinder. This app never really went of (my daughter did not come through on her promise to market it among her fellow students;-0

(Edit: added ‘1’ ‘2’ etc)



Regarding #1, I've found this app helpful when I'm at a national park or theme park or similarly large space:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.you_are_he...

The author also has an iOS version:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/you-are-here-gps-for-any-map/i...


First app: not available in your country (Romania). Sounds very useful.


Sorry, only made it available in a few markets (still early work). But if you are OK with the English version, I will add Romania to the list. (Only made localisations to a few languages, beside Dutch and English a few Scandinavian ones.


OK, updatet it: it should be available in Romania (and many other countries as well). Might take some time before it becomes visible though, is not always instantaneous.

Hope you like the app.


Edit: found a YouTube video, seems like it does what I think it does. Although the video could be a lot better, it's currently Boomer PowerPoint (sorry).

LetsDoThis, is that an app for a group of people? It'd be interesting if say a group of 5 people want to decide on where to go for lunch, dinner; or where to sightsee on a travel day... I guess the choices need to be granular too, e.g. a steak restaurant would be "Hard No" for some vegans.

I can imagine using a solution without a central server: one member of the group could manually collect and input all the ideas, the app would create a QR code of all the options, all members scan the code, make their choices, and someone can collect the votes from them also by scanning QR codes from their phones.

Alternatively, the data could also be a base64 string shareable via email or WhatsApp, if not all members of the group are nearby..


Yes, for a group. The ‘leader’ needs the app, others can use web, but app is preferred. Info is stored for two weeks on my server, under a uuid filename.

Leader anyone who voted can see best voted result. You can add arbitrary urls, any texts, and select netflix movies and restaurants.

Communication between leader and others is via your own solution: whatsapp, signal or other social app (you essentially share the uuid between you). My server stores the solutions and votes for two weeks, and then deletes the results.


Reaction to your other points:

-1- Boomer powerpoint. Yes, guilty. Although I made it using Prezi, I guess my education is from the previous century;-0

-2- I started with yes/no/no opinion, but decided this did not scale enough. You could off course discuss the options in e.g. a Whatsapp group before (‘does it have to have a vegan option?’ Or ‘Within Brooklyn area’), but do not see a viable solution in which I could ‘design’ this out.

-3- I actually started with sharing a base64 string / uuencoded / version, but decided this was to errorprone (in an earlier version you could ‘paste’ a string which was then interpreted as a string of choices). But when the choices can be any link, e.g. https://example.com/some_deep_path/escape_room_in_NewYersey, and the next be a text option as ‘lets just take a walk into the Mountains from the Grand Canyon’, I think limitations of size becomes a problem. E.g. SMS would not be an option anymore to share the options with others.

Since I developed this app, other options have become available, e.g. Whatsapp has a survey option. The only real ‘unique selling point’ is the quick access to Netflix categories (although not all choices may be available everywhere in the world), or the tripadvisor and the fork options for restaurants. And off course the brilliant ‘swipe left/right’ to vote for or against an option;-0




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