day -19: profile
Daily stories from the ambadoo team, behind the scenes, dev-stats and other random stuff.
A new week, a new story, a new sprint. After fighting last week to get the login-process right we’re now on a sweet tasting fruit. Create, Edit & Update Profile, the core of ambadoo. This is what makes the differences. Instead of you having to take care of everybody else’ contact info, just care about your own, making sure it’s up-to-date and let everyone else do the same and we’re all fine.
Profile
The profile will evolve and grow over time but for this sprint, and the upcoming deadline we’ll keep it constraint. When you first register on ambadoo some info will be grabbed from your Facebook account as a starting point. Name & Photo. We’re looking into what what we can actually get from your profile, and if this makes sense to grab or it’s better to just start over.
Essentials
What’s crucial to get going? Well, Name is a given. Email, URL, Phone# & Address we believe will cover you for some time. There’s plenty more to add but for now this will make up a nice starting profile.
Privacy
This matters more than anything. For you and for us. It’s up to you what you share & with whom. We’ve created three presets for each and every item. Visible to you, your friends or everyone. You should never be forced to share anything with anyone, that’s for sure.
Tags
Instead of making static groups, that easily become out-of-date, we’re trying with a tag-based system that’s more dynamic. You can simply search for ‘New York’ among your contacts and all contacts in NY will show up, or search ‘developer’ and you get a list of coders. You’ll be able to tag others, but also yourself to make it easier to organize.
Can’t wait for Friday to see this rolling.
day -29: it’s taking shape
daily stories from the ambadoo team, behind the scenes, dev-stats and other random stuff.
It’s been an amazing week. Very intense & awesome fun. For the first time in a very long while (nearly a year) things start to shape really well. From having the developers scattered around the world, to having no developers we’re now sitting everyone together in the same room, working vertically & tight. Vertical in this case means taking a User Story, a scenario basically that shall work across the system, back-end & iPhone App together.
We’ve started to work with sprints (scrum lingo), and this weeks sprint was split in two scenarios: meet & keep in touch & log in with Facebook Connect. Check on both! We’ve had a Facebook Login all the time but it was never built for production and at best a really good joke. Now there’s actual authentication through Facebook, which is a very liberating feeling.
The Scenario meet & keep in touch is pretty much the equivalent of exchanging business cards, like people did in the old way. It’s about quick and easy connect to each other, an everyday scenario when you meet new people. Now, instead of dealing with paper, it’s a one-click-operation. You might say but “what about bump”, and indeed it’s just that action (without the goofy move) but the exchange is not of static information but to information that’s always up-to-date.
mockup view.
We hope this will make life a little easier in all the scenarios when you meet new great people that you want to stay in touch with, without the hassle of manually typing in, and keeping track of peoples contact info.
You have no idea how great it feels that things are moving again. It’s been a bumpy ride but we’re on it, and we’ve gone from nearly not moving, to be moving fast, thanks to the great dev team from jayway.