More inches

On Monday I met another entrepreneur who could use our solution.

In fact, because of his business idea we brought forward a feature and rolled it out this evening.

It took me over a week to write the feature but it was quite involved.

His general feedback was good and gave us new perspective on our app. Incidentally he used to work at a company where I worked.

On Tuesday I submitted to Apple the latest app (including the new feature) and this evening they approved it. It normally takes up to 24 hours to then roll out but in this case it probably took an hour.

This is just as well as from tomorrow they have a change freeze over the Christmas period.

And after it was rolled out I uploaded the app to the Google store for Android distribution. And despite Google stating that it could take a few hours to roll out again it was out within an hour.

Another inch

Overnight the latest version of the app, complete with new colours, a new logo and language choices, went onto the Apple app store.

Now, no more excuse not to do more dev.

Inching

You know, almost every day we make progress. No quantum leaps but still progress.

Yesterday I rolled out the new app to Google and Apple - Google delivered it pretty quickly but Apple likes to take their time and review every submission.

I am not going to do any more app dev until this version is rolled out to the iPhone.

Instead, today I looked at flyer designs (which were produced yesterday evening). I also found that Dropbox has some quite good capability to comment on files.

TheCrazyChicken and I also had a chat with the friend who is interested in joining us as a co-founder.

Progress is progress but we aren't really making the progress we need to make investors want to give us loads of money.

A week of adventures

Last Thursday I had lunch with a friend who may be interested in joining us as a co-founder.

After lunch we went to a nearby café and there I had a cappuccino.

I spent the rest of the day feeling nauseous and in the small  hours started throwing up.

I'm not saying it was the coffee, or the meal but it was definitely something.

As you can imagine this laid me low for a few days - in fact I still don't feel fighting fit.

App-wise we have a new logo which will go on stickers for shop windows and also go on the app.

By Monday I was making some progress with the app. I gave up using the multi-app plug-in - the latest version doesn't work with appery.io any more - and simply coded it in by hand, seeing as I am such a JavaScript-wallah by now.

On Wednesday I bought a new old MacBook Pro. New because it is still in its box (and it is still in its box, I haven't opened it) and old because it isn't the new version of the MacBook Pro. I need USB ports and in an interesting product management move Apple no longer provide them on their devices.

So I bought the old one which was on sale to clear the stocks.

I also bought it as my mini Mac is very slow, only 4Gb RAM. I also need to access a Mac wherever I am (which most likely means England over Xmas) as I can no rely on remote access to my desktop Mac.

Yesterday I went to an AGBC meeting where TheCrazyChicken found two people who wanted to use the app for their businesses.

To think: she was almost not going to attend.